Could the boreal forest be less fragile than we think? Contrary to the predictions of models that forecast its rapid decline in favor of temperate maple forests, the ecological history of the boreal ...

Up to two thirds of the world's temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new study by researchers at the University of Leeds. In the first ever ...

KS3/GCSE Geography. Deciduous forests. Investigating the New Forest and the layers that make it up, as well as how animals ...

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

For decades, scientists believed cool temperate rainforests were fragile ecosystems easily damaged by disturbances like fires or logging. But new research from the University of Melbourne challenges ...

High in the temperate Himalaya, between roughly 2750 and 3300 meters above sea level, the forest canopy changes in a series ...

Using a new analysis method for satellite images, an international research team, coordinated by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and INRAE, mapped for the first time ...

It is still possible to stand in a redwood sorel garden, a garden that carpets a remaining grove of the world’s tallest trees here in northern California. The flowers of spring – the trillium and the ...

The Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) is a global network of forest research plots that study tropical and temperate forest function and diversity. The first plot was established on Barro ...

The Lake District is home to one of the UK's rarest natural treasures: temperate rainforest.

Temperate forests represent a mosaic of interacting biotic and abiotic components governed by succession, disturbance and nutrient cycles. Canopy trees, understorey plants and soil microbes form ...