The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

Filaments of fungi intertwine with the tips of tree roots to form underground networks that seem to benefit both organisms: the filaments, called hyphae, break down minerals in the soil that trees can ...

Forests planted with many different tree species have substantially higher aboveground carbon stocks and greater carbon fluxes than monocultures, shows a study. For the study, researchers analyzed ...

Southeast Asia’s tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face significant threats from the expansion of oil palm plantations. With global demand for palm oil rising, ...

Take a 2-minute flyover of BiodiversiTREE, a 20,000-tree forest experiment at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on Chesapeake Bay. The forest has 16 different tree species, so scientists ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. The Christmas tree feels like a tradition from time immemorial—and in some ways it is.

Researchers hope the introduction of forest soil and the thousands of fungal spores and other microbes living within it will provide over time a needed boost to trees planted in compact, ...

Fall leaf color and climate change, urban trees, heat islands and downtown honeybees. Why do leaves change color in the fall, and how will climate change affect that rainbow of color? Plus, urban ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland announced earlier this year that it was seeking a firm to assess the health of 90,000 trees lining city streets. The comprehenisve 12-month survey, that was expected to ...