The gap enables sunlight to reach the forest floor and fuel the rapid growth of small trees ... these data, they identified the mechanism most important in driving the observed size structure ...

“When it comes to understanding and strengthening our urban forests, trees on private land are a critical, but sometimes overlooked, piece of the puzzle. Citizen science offers a way to collect this ...

A new international study estimates that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth ... potential to inform scientists about the structure of forest ecosystems in different regions, and ...

In the research group Forest Structure and Dynamics, we study both managed and natural forests and in a scale, ranging from local to global. We are particularly interested in tree sizes, growth, ...

Forests are an important part of life in Canada; in fact, Canada has the third-largest forested area in the world. From coast to coast, millions of trees grow everywhere around us. So, wherever you ...

A study published in November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA reveals that the world's oldest trees had a very different structure ... planet's first forests, capturing ...

The team from the Smithsonian and the park looked at 67 plots of forest across 73 acres. The data was from 1987 to 2019 and contained more than 350,000 tree observations. “We know that pests and ...