University of Alberta research offers new guidance that can help recover habitat for woodland caribou in forests across the ...

The Colorado State Forest Service describes our forests as “disturbance-driven”. This means they’ve historically “evolved with a cycle of natural disturbance such as wildfire, insect ...

This understanding is crucial in grasping the intricate relationship between fire and forests in our area. The Colorado State Forest Service describes our forests as “disturbance-driven.” This means ...

Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless ...

An international team led by Woodwell Climate Research Center found that a third (34 percent) of the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ)—the treeless tundra, boreal forests, and wetlands that make up Earth ...

As pandemic lockdowns forced humans into isolation, Earth's vegetation was thriving. The year 2020 was the greenest in modern ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — Colorado's forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees -- mostly due to insects and disease -- have caused the state's forests to emit more carbon than they ...

Insects and disease emerged as the dominant forces of change, affecting more forest area than wildfire, harvest, and weather combined during the study period. These disturbances were responsible for ...

Forest gaps play an important role during forest succession in temperate forest ecosystems. However, the differences in spatial distribution and replacement patterns of woody plants (trees and shrubs) ...