The leaves of evergreen species acquire carbon over the long term and improve nutrient conservation, whereas short-lived leaves favour rapid carbon acquisition.
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How many years you reuse a fake holiday tree matters. So does what happens to a live tree when you’ve packed up the ornaments.
Research shows that the distribution of temperate hardwoods (sugar maple, red maple and yellow birch) could be shifting northward, which would have serious consequences for the boreal forest.
As the climate warms, devastating fires are increasingly likely. The 2020 fires pushed the Southern Rockies beyond the historical average. Is there hope for the Northern Rockies?
Over 50 fire ecologists across the Western U.S. took an unprecedented look at how forests in thousands of locations are recovering from fire in a changing climate. The results were alarming.
Some of these trees can be over 30 metres high. Others, can live for centuries or, for the Huon pine, up to an astonishing ten millennia.
New research shows that coast redwood trees have a surprising adaptation that helps them thrive in both wet and dry environments.
Many deciduous trees put on a dazzling fall foliage display. But coniferous evergreens hold on to their needles and stay green. A biologist breaks down these different survival strategies.
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Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana
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Assistant Professor of Forestry, Mississippi State University
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Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Doctorant en écologie forestière, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
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Research Ecologist, United States Forest Service
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Montana
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Botany, Humboldt State University
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Professeur en sciences forestière, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
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Professor of Biology, Bowdoin College
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Adjunct professor, Carbone boréal, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
