As the world grapples with the intertwined challenges of global forest degradation and climate change, traditional forest ...

Forests, wooded areas, and scattered trees have provided food, fuel, medicines, filtered water, shelter, and building materials throughout time. As countries with ample forests develop, they tend ...

The Forest Ecosystem Science degree is based on a vision that combines professional competency in forest management skills with an enhanced understanding of ecological sciences. Students interested in ...

Disturbances are key drivers of forest ecosystem dynamics, and forests are well adapted to their natural disturbance regimes. However, as a result of climate change, disturbance frequency is expected ...

Between 2003 and 2021, Earth saw a net boost in photosynthesis, mainly thanks to land plants thriving in warming, wetter conditions—especially in temperate and high-latitude regions. Meanwhile, ocean ...

As this critical habitat for species shrinks, extinction for some species will inevitably follow, said first author Dirk Karger of the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ...

A palm oil company has resumed clearing forest in its concession in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, the only place on Earth where tigers, orangutans and rhinos coexist. Analysis of satellite ...

In a study published in the journal Nature Communications on November 1, scientists describe a seagrass ecosystem in the Bahamas that could be the biggest in the world.

Simon Fraser University. "Ancient Indigenous forest gardens promote a healthy ecosystem." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 22 April 2021. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 04 / 210422181902.htm>.

A group of pink salmon return home to the waters where they were born, bringing with them a pulse of nutrients that helps drive stream and forest ecosystems. From old-growth trees to aquatic ...