As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...

Chennai: Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall patterns and elevation-linked microclimates are steadily reshaping forest ...

Did you know that forests cover almost one-third of all land on Earth? These large green areas are the lungs of our planet, ...

Contrary to what is generally assumed, the diversity of qualitative chemicals among species of eastern deciduous forest trees is high. Qualitative defenses (e.g., alkaloids) that supplement ...

Drought—even in a single year—can leave aspen more vulnerable to insect infestation and other stressors decades later, a new study by NAU researchers found. Aspen trees that were not resilient to ...

• Leaf optical properties impact leaf energy balance and thus leaf temperature. The effect of leaf development on mid-infrared (MIR) reflectance, and hence thermal emissivity, has not been ...

Fall foliage color is produced by deciduous trees and shrubs. Up North, the spectacular fall color has long come and gone. Here in the Deep South, fall color is not as prominent, but we do see some.