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

The spruce resin helps to preserve this larder ... With multiple warm winters, the grey jay population has dropped. Canada’s boreal forest is home to an incredible array of iconic species ...

Also known as the Canadian spruce or the skunk spruce ... of seeds survives and grows faster than other saplings in the boreal forest. Jack pines are widely distributed throughout northern ...

Near timberline, black spruce joins with balsam in a dwarfed and contorted ... Beneath the deep shade of the boreal conifers, the forest floor is cold, dark, and damp. The ground cover varies from ...

Their staccato voices can make a muskeg bog as loud as a city street, though most are so small they could sit in a coffee cup ...

Lee E. Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology, explained that the park lies near the ...

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 ...

Because insects become scarce when the fall chill sets in, wood frogs might eat their numerous, highly available sons and ...

In fact, black spruce, a key component of such boreal forests, “will not drop their seeds unless they are heated to temperatures unachievable by sunlight alone.” Fort McMurray was surrounded ...

and found that boreal forests in far-northern latitudes may one day act as a climate refuge for black spruce, the foundational tree of the northwoods ecosystem and the most dominant species in ...

A forest ecologist, Dr. Greene studies pollination, seed production, seed abscission and dispersal, and germination, as well as broader issues in forestry and disturbance ecology. He is funded by ...