Decades of progress in protecting the planet’s carbon dioxide-busting forests are at risk as the climate crisis continues to ...

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 ...

An international study presents the first global assessment of blue carbon accumulated in the living parts of seagrass plants ...

New evidence from South China reveals how early humans adapted to environmental transformations during the Late Pleistocene.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Stand-scale gap-phase dynamics is generally viewed as the main driver of development in mesic deciduous forests of the temperate biome. Soil ...

Trees depend on fungi for their well-being. As climate change and global warming cause higher temperatures and amplified drought, little is known about how these important fungi will respond. To ...

The UK's temperate rainforests are globally rare and cover less than 1% of Great Britain, a drastic reduction from the fifth ...

To mitigate the impact of severe wildfire on human society and the environment, prescribed fire is widely used in forest ecosystems to reduce fuel loads and limit fire spread. To avoid detrimental ...

Deep in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, scientists have created a groundbreaking “climate time machine” to simulate ...

Researchers have found that tropical forest ecosystems are more reliant on aquatic insects than temperate forest ecosystems, making them more vulnerable to disruptions to the links between land and ...