The team analyzed DNA from about 100 trees per species, searching for genetic clues about the history and future of each species.

Planting forests with diverse species can help ensure their success, according to a new study published May 18 from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and The Nature Conservancy. The ...

A new international study led by the University of Freiburg shows that long droughts can reverse the benefits of tree ...

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few ...

One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers ...

Forests are dying faster than expected. Rising tree mortality threatens carbon storage, ecosystems, and global climate ...

"Many of these trees are attractive and were planted intentionally… however, their unchecked spread disrupts ecosystems by ...

Many people look at trees to relax, taking in the soothing fractal patterns to adjust their eyes from too many hours spent at a computer. Dominick "Dom" Ciruzzi, assistant professor of geology at ...

According to a new study by the EHU's BEZ-EKOFISKO research group, the choice of using eucalyptus in forestry needs to be ...