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 ...
Get a bird's-eye view of the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield from a seaplane. Hop on a boat for a whale watching and wildlife viewing tour where you may spot humpback or killer whales. Ride the ...
Rapid deforestation due to expanding agriculture, logging, population centers, and other factors has been making headlines around the world for decades. Luckily, forests still cover more than 30 ...
Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by climate change ...
The data sets are very large: with more than 75 permanent forest dynamics plots in 29 countries worldwide, the Forest Global Earth Observatory network (ForestGEO) of the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...
Daniel L. Druckenbrod, Dario Martin-Benito, David A. Orwig, Neil Pederson, Benjamin Poulter, Katherine M. Renwick and Herman H. Shugart Aim: Climate and disturbance alter forest dynamics, from ...
Australia’s forests face rising tree mortality from climate stress, threatening carbon storage and ecosystem health ...
Carbon sinks and sources in global forests (Pg C year-1) expressed as the mean annual rate across the full three-decadal period 1990 to 2019. Positive values represent carbon sinks, while negative ...
The reason why so many tree species can coexist in species-rich forests has long been a subject of debate in ecology. This question is key to understanding the mechanisms governing the dynamics and ...