In elementary school, most of us learned the basic differences between deciduous and coniferous trees. Deciduous trees have leaves that change color and drop in the fall, and coniferous trees have ...
It sounds unbelievable, but every tree on the planet, from ancient mountain pines to the flowering ornamental trees growing in city parks, belongs to just three major categories. Despite the thousands ...
Rapid deforestation due to expanding agriculture, logging, population centers, and other factors has been making headlines around the world for decades. Luckily, forests still cover more than 30 ...
A new study from Stockholm University reveals that spruce bark beetles, already infamous for killing millions of trees in Sweden, are also changing the forest microclimate. Using a combination of ...
Plants that drop all their leaves at one time and enter a leafless, dormant state are called deciduous. In climates that ...