One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...
As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...
The world is made up of some amazing ecosystems that make the perfect travel destinations. But sometimes there is no place better than home! The UK has some beautiful deciduous forests. One of these ...
Jill Johnstone acknowledges funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in Canada and in the United States from the Long Term Ecological Research Program (National Science ...
Australia has hardly any native deciduous trees. Why do we mostly have evergreens? Is it too hot for deciduous trees to have evolved, or is there another reason? There are only a few trees native to ...
Forest birds, especially those of mesic forest, have life history traits favoring a lower intrinsic rate of natural increase (rm) than do birds of grassland, marsh, or forest edge. Specifically, ...