Did you know that fungi are not simply passengers, but drivers of plant diversity? Recently published studies, by researchers from Canada and USA identified the real king of the forest – fungus.
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‘Green deserts’ or functional forests?
Natural forests support life in complex ways. Forest ecosystems are habitats for animals and humans, they regulate air quality, temperature and carbon cycling, protect soils and water quality, help mitigate climate change, and much more.
The growth before death: a better understanding of tree mortality using tree ring data
With the historical drought in California causing the death of something like 102 Million trees in the Sierra Nevada, the topic of tree mortality is hotter than ever. It is usually easy to see ifContinue reading
How decentralized policies can help to reduce deforestation?
Researchers from four U.S. universities presented evidence that deforestation can be limited thanks to empowering local governments with forestry decisions. In order to make this happen, local forest users have to be actively engaged withContinue reading
New wildlife migration corridors can cut costs by over 75%
Scientists from U.S. have demonstrated recently a new technique for designing wildlife migration corridors, which is able to cut conservation costs by over 75%. Continue reading…
Tree rings indicate: World has been cooling for 2000 years
In 2012, an international team of scientists published a study, where they reconstructed climate in northern Europe for the past 2 000 years. For the first time, the cooling trend was calculated precisely. Read moreContinue reading
Protected areas save biodiversity worldwide
Species richness is 10.6% higher inside protected areas compared to areas outside. This result has been recently published by researches, under the leadership of Claudia Gray from University of Sussex (UK). Check out, what else has been found!
Are forest plantations sustainable?
A research led by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) proposes a methodology to establish a ranking of sustainability of the forest plantations that integrates the preferences of the agents.
Forest-biodiversity-loss harms us all!
Researchers from 30 countries have collected and analyzed forest data set from 777,126 sample plots, located in 44 countries. In total, they measured over 30 million trees of 8,737 different species. The analyzed area represented the most terrestrial biomes, fromContinue reading
Pine beetles don’t support forest fires
One of the greatest challenges for contemporary ecology is to predict the consequences of climate change on ecosystems. This post discusses the connection between pine beetles outbreaks and forest fires in the western United States. ReadContinue reading