forest-ecology

Whether the oaks or pines in your local park are partnered with truffle-style fungi or fine-root-...

Trees in your local park or forest aren't just passively growing side by side — they're engaged i...

The spotted trout lilies carpeting your spring woodland floor are wearing camouflage refined by d...

Beech forests across Europe are still raining down nuts even through brutal droughts, which means...

Bark beetles killing spruce trees across northern Europe are already a visible threat in many for...

Every tree in your yard is almost certainly plugged into a fungal web right now, and that web is ...

Beech trees dropping a carpet of nuts every few years is what keeps squirrels, jays, and deer fro...

Every mixed-species planting in your yard or neighborhood, from a backyard food forest to a stree...

The conifers holding the treeline together in high mountain forests depend on wide-ranging underg...

That sassafras thicket at the edge of the woods you walk past — the one that smells like root bee...

The maples and oaks you watch change color each fall may shift their timing by weeks as nitrogen ...

The acorns dropping in your neighborhood woods each fall are part of a chain reaction that reache...

Shade-tolerant trees you plant beneath a canopy, like hornbeam or field maple, won't respond to a...

Canadian bunchberry carpeting the forest floor of a boreal trail is one of the clearest signs tha...

The mushrooms and truffle-like fungi partnering with the trees in your yard or local woods have a...

Every oak, pine, and birch in your local woodland quietly depends on underground fungal partners ...

The towering conifers anchoring your nearest mountain forest or state park are evolutionary survi...

The beech trees shading your local forest trail are genetically flexible about when they leaf out...

The oaks, maples, and hickories in your local woodland aren't equally tough in a dry summer—some ...

Ferns carpeting the forest floor or colonizing a sunny roadside bank are running completely diffe...

Walk through any mixed hardwood forest and the invisible web beneath your feet is being sculpted ...

Oak trees in your local woodland are running a seasonal hydraulic gamble — their spring growth fl...

Caterpillars, beetles, and browsing deer eating your local forest's plants aren't just consumers;...

The mushroom-forming fungi colonizing the roots of oaks, pines, and birches in your local woods a...

Every pine, oak, birch, and spruce you walk beneath relies on root fungi like Laccaria bicolor to...

The next time you walk through a forest, know that scientists can now digitally recreate every tr...

Bluebead lily is a reliable indicator of healthy, undisturbed forest understory — spotting it in ...

The fruiting and flushing cycles of trees in West African forests are so ecologically valuable th...