Canopy Thinning Alters Conifer Phloem Growth and Defense Metabolism Under Drought
Increased crown transparency shortens secondary phloem formation in co-occurring conifers and prompts a metabolic shift from growth to defense in ...
Tag: forest ecology
Bronze Age Pollen Records Reveal Centuries of Cyclical Woodland Management in Italy
High-resolution pollen analysis from Bronze Age Terramare settlements in northern Italy reveals four centuries of cyclical woodland coppicing that left ...
Mixed Pine Forests Enhance Topsoil Organic Quality Through Diverse Understory Vegetation
Research in northern Spain reveals that while dominant pine species govern topsoil organic carbon quantity, mixed overstory and understory diversity ...
Fuel Treatments in British Columbia Reduce Wildfire Tree Mortality Despite Carbon Losses
A study across five community forests in British Columbia reveals that fuel treatments reduce immediate carbon storage while significantly improving ...
Open Spatial Data Predicts Vital Old-Growth Habitats in Small Private Forests
Researchers demonstrated that machine learning models utilizing open spatial data can reliably map critical old-growth forest habitats across small private ...
Beech Bark Beetle Fungal Communities Vary by Local Patch, Not Region
A study of beech bark beetles across 61 German forest patches shows that their fungal communities are shaped by local ...
Mycorrhizal type and life form independently shape resource strategies in Qinling woody plants
A study of 113 woody species in the Qinling Mountains shows that mycorrhizal type and life form independently shape plant ...
Ash leaf microbiomes share a core bacterial community shaped by climate and site
Across 12 forest sites in Germany, the bacterial communities living on the leaves of European ash trees share a small ...
Pines grow up to four times faster far from home, study finds
An international study spanning 192 sites on four continents found that conifers planted in the Southern Hemisphere grow up to ...
Field survey documents tree and understorey diversity in Assam’s Cachar Hills
A September 2014 field survey along Assam’s Kopili River recorded 52 tree species and 72 understorey species while finding limited ...
Two New Purple Fungi Found in Mexico’s Temperate Forests
Morphology, chemistry and DNA sequencing have confirmed two new violet cup fungi from temperate forests in Mexico, including the first ...
Fungal Partners Shape Forest Carbon: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Boost Biomass but Trim Diversity
A study of six hectares of Chinese transition-zone forest finds that ectomycorrhizal tree dominance strongly predicts higher aboveground biomass while ...
Four New Wood-Decay Fungi Uncovered in East China’s Forests
Deep in the subtropical forests of eastern China, researchers have identified four previously unknown species of wood-inhabiting fungi, expanding our ...
Rare Trees Tell a Hidden Story in China’s Giant Water Diversion Forests
A survey of 2,210 woody plants in the water source forests of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project shows that rare ...
Tiny Head Starts Decide Which Beech Trees Survive for Decades
A 25-year University of Göttingen study shows that beech seedlings just one or two centimeters taller than their neighbors in ...
AI Meets Human Expertise to Map How Mixed Forests Deliver Ecosystem Services
Researchers combined a retrieval-augmented GPT-4o agent with expert oversight to conduct a scoping review of how plant functional traits shape ...
Hidden Engineers of the Forest Floor: Shrubs Rewire Soil Carbon and Nutrient Cycling
A study of Polish pine forests shows that hazel, buckthorn, and rowan shrubs each leave distinct biochemical fingerprints on soil ...
Tree Roots Break the Rules: Global Study Reveals No Universal Law for Nitrogen and Phosphorus Scaling
A global analysis of woody plants shows that coarse root nitrogen and phosphorus scaling is loose and highly variable, shaped ...
Hidden Salt in the Soil Shapes Which Trees Can Live Together in Subtropical Forests
High-resolution mapping in a subtropical Chinese forest reveals that patchy soil sodium is a dominant, previously overlooked driver of tree ...
Boreal Forests Rewrite the Rules of Nitrogen Uptake Under Long-Term Deposition
A 15N tracer experiment in a Chinese Dahurian larch forest shows that long-term nitrogen addition reshapes how trees take up, ...
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