The plant and animal species that occur in the Adirondacks are diverse and varied unlike anywhere else in the northeast. The mosaic of temperate forest and boreal forest found in the region provides a ...

The alpine plant community of the High Peaks region is truly a rare and limited Adirondack resource. This forest community, sometimes called the mountain boreal forest, is comprised largely of conifer ...

temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the trees and other plant and non-plant species, as well as ecosystem processes and conservation. Across many North American ...

It calls for a unique set of survival skills suited to this vast, frosty realm. This article details the must-attend workshops that prepare adventurers with the knowledge and skills to not just ...

Ewers investigates how plants control energy flows and mass cycles at scales ... Impact of time since fire on boreal forest carbon, water and nutrient cycles -Bark beetle and symbiotic blue-stain ...

As you can see, not much light can penetrate through the canopy. On the forest floor only a few herbaceous plants can grow and survive the low light conditions - like mosses, lichen and ferns.

We study the processes and responses of boreal forest ecosystems on different levels, from the scale of tree parts and soil particles to the scale of landscape. We seek to understand how the ...