Scientists Warn: Forests Are Losing Their Most Important Trees

Forests worldwide may be entering a new phase marked by fewer specialized tree species and more fast-growing generalists.
Science Daily

New research sheds light on relationships between plants and insects in forest ecosystems

Researchers have published new findings on how leaf-eating insects affect forest ecosystems worldwide. Researchers are aware of how large herbivores cycle nutrients in forests. They know much less, ...

Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure

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

A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests

“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 ...
The Conversation

Ecosystems are deeply interconnected – environmental research, policy and management should be too

Rebecca Gladstone-Gallagher receives funding from philanthropy, Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE), including from the National Science Challenges, the Marsden Fund and the ...
Mongabay

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

For hundreds of years, the island nation of Japan has seen various examples of efforts to conserve its coastal ecosystems, vital to its fisheries. An 1897 law created protection forests to conserve a ...