Fungi are the hidden architects of our ecosystems, acting as everything from helpful partners for plants to aggressive ...

Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

The Forest Ecosystem Science degree is based on a vision that combines professional competency in forest management skills with an enhanced understanding of ecological sciences. Students interested in ...

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the ...

By Ruth Kamnitzer Regenerating tropical forests pull carbon dioxide from the air, but a lack of nitrogen in the soil could ...

“As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” photographer David Herasimtschuk writes of old growth forests. “Yet, because these processes and ...

In Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California, trees that have persisted through rain and shine for thousands of years are now facing multiple threats triggered by a changing climate.

Aspen trees in fall in adjacent Custer Gallatin National Forest. (Diane Renkin/National Park Service via Courthouse News) (CN) — Conservationists joined forces in Montana on Wednesday in challenging a ...

Though spatially distinct, the Santa Barbara Channel’s subtidal kelp forests and its sandy beaches are intimately connected. Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera), the foundation species of rocky reefs, ...

They may become a growing liability, as is evident currently from the catchy headlines of a forest fire, if the forest ...