New research documents how older trees support younger saplings, and offers a different way to think about logging and ...
Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...
By Shradha Triveni Forests are natural carbon sinks. But as reforestation of degraded land is becoming a global climate ...
Old oak trees and semi-natural grasslands are very important for a large number of species that risk disappearing as habitats ...
A decade-long search through Taiwan’s remote forests led to the discovery of East Asia’s tallest tree and hundreds of other ...
GToTree is a more structured implementation of a workflow I would put together everytime I wanted to make a large-scale phylogenomic tree. What do I mean by large-scale? Anything from a full-blown ...
SINGAPORE - With a new government grant, global carbon project developer Value Network Ventures is planning to hire more people in Singapore and trial an eco-friendly rice farming method in parts of ...
Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The most accurate way foresters determine the age of a tree is by counting ...
Hummingbirds, for example, drink between 50% and 150% of their body weight in nectar each day. Based on these feeding habits, the researchers estimate that an Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna), ...
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Abstract: Species tree reconstruction from genomic data is increasingly performed using methods that account for sources of gene tree discordance such as incomplete lineage sorting. One popular method ...
High on a ridge in California’s Eastern Sierra, a gnarled bristlecone pine known as Methuselah has reigned over almost five millennia’s worth of snowy winters and blazing summers. Methuselah, whose ...