Forests are shaped by light competition. The trees that grow the tallest have access to the most sunlight, blocking the rays and rendering the shaded space around them inhospitable to shorter trees ...

“Maybe every five to seven years,” says Sam Lindblom. That’s how often a forest consisting of dry oak and pine in the mountains of Virginia should experience a low-severity fire—either wildfire or a ...

Pieter A. Zuidema is in the Forest Ecology and Forest Management group, Wageningen University & Research, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands. Augusto and co-workers reach their remarkable conclusion ...

The fight for survival in the forest is fierce: light, water and nutrients are all limited. This is particularly true in ...

Learn how Redden State Forest is preserving Sussex County's forestry and agricultural heritage amid continued growth.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study in Panama finds that nitrogen availability limits forest growth in the early stages of regeneration. Nitrogen addition to newly cleared ...

Tree-ring samples taken by Paulo Quadri, who earned a Ph.D. in environmental studies from UC Santa Cruz, were included in the study. (Photo by Luz A. de Wit) The top-line findings of a massive ...

TNC Forest Program staff, a TNC Scientist, and partners published Innovative Tree Designation Methods for a Complex Silvicultural Treatment in the Journal of Forestry. Over time, the opportunity to ...

A field study in Soberania National Park, Panama, tracked palm seeds carried by small rodents and found that spiny rats nonrandomly moved seeds into and toward tree-fall gaps, where light-demanding ...

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management is preparing to thin out a section of the Arcadia Management Area by ...