They’re found all throughout the eastern boreal forests as far as Saskatchewan, Canada, and (as their name suggests) are partial to peatlands and open bogs. The seeds of bog rosemary plants ...

It’s just one tree, but it’s a balsam fir that I planted and get to watch grow knowing I’ve helped Terra Nova National Park ...

It could help manage forest fires and improve climate models. Researchers make disturbing discovery about burning events in ...

It depends on matters like climate and soil conditions, or the people ... forests. Although the berries feed birds, they help disperse its seeds, adding to the problem. Purchase your fruit plants ...

Disturbed deciduous forests with impoverished soils, a limited seed bank, or genetically degraded ... other forms of active restoration like tree planting. Quicklime can be used as an amendment ...

Fires release nutrients tied up in dead plant litter. Soil provides a good thermal insulator, so seeds and below ground ... The overstory in much of the boreal forest is made up of only one ...

Ewers investigates how plants control energy flows and mass cycles ... These tools are applied to a variety of ecosystems ranging from crops to forests to steppe grasslands. -Impact of time since fire ...

Within a given site, the spatial and age distribution of trees and associated plant species ... Regeneration of boreal forests varies in time and space. Temporal variation takes into account such ...

Around the world people are working against ... which can grow up to 2.5cm per day. The Siberian flying squirrel makes its nest in boreal forests across Scandinavia, Russia and Northern Asia.

It's not hard to see why plant lovers ... nearly 50,000 seeds per year. It's mainly birds that disperse the seeds, but they ...

As herbivores, forest elephants consume lots of plant matter, including leaves, grasses, seeds, and tree bark ... aggressive and can be dangerous to people and other animals that get in their ...