Murugesan, V. Balasubramaniam and K.A.A. Kabeer, Vellingiri hills comprises scrub jungles, tropical dry deciduous forests, tropical wet evergreen forests, temperate forests (sholas) and southern ...

The remnant temperate mixed and deciduous forests on the public lands of the Appalachians offer a unique opportunity for ecological recovery, an opportunity certainly unmatched in the East ...

The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs ...

By vegetation zone: Cold temperate coniferous forests, with a density of 720 trees/ha, contributed over 60% of China's total tree count (8.79 billion trees), whereas warm temperate deciduous ...

Forest ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of wooded areas, including rainforest, deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the ...

We are gliding across a lake carved out in the last Ice Age in kayaks lovingly built by hand from ancient King Billy pine, a ...

Trees are master multitaskers. No duty is too daunting or tedious for these sky-scratching organisms. From soil stabilizers ...

How are they distributed? The answers to them are central to forest resource management, ecological protection, and the response to global climate change. Traditional manual plot sampling for ...

Traits such as being deciduous, wood density, leaf thickness, and drought tolerance influence a tree's ability to survive in a changing climate. Elevation matters: Mountainous forests show more ...

Hundreds of saplings have been planted as part of a project to expand one of the South West’s last remaining temperate rainforests. Volunteers have planted 450 saplings from Wistman’s Wood, an ancient ...