Where grazing has been absent for decades, a plush lichen mat can make summer carbon release more sensitive to how winter plays out. In a warming North, the herd on the horizon may be part of what ...

Winter climate change is affecting the carbon exchange of northern coniferous forests, but the response depends upon reindeer grazing, according to a new study from the University of Oulu, Finland.

Deep snows prevent the release of carbon dioxide from boreal forests, but when the snows are shallower it can escape, making global heating almost impossible to stop. However, reindeer and their wild ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 402, No. 1/2 (May 2016), pp. 363-378 (16 pages) Aims Climate change and land-use are predicted to shift coniferous stands to deciduous stands in northern New England. This change ...

A new paper published in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Ecological Monographs addresses some of these questions. The findings reveal that the leaf microbiomes of sugar maple trees vary ...

With a population estimated around 60 million birds, the Blackpoll Warbler is one of the most abundant of North America’s 54 species of New World Warblers. And since it breeds away from most human ...

Heterobasidion root rot remains one of the most detrimental fungal diseases afflicting coniferous forests across the Northern hemisphere. The pathogen’s persistence is driven by its ability to survive ...