forest-ecology
Forest ecology is the scientific study of the interrelated patterns, processes, and organisms that function together within forest ecosystems. It is essential for plant science because it reveals how plants interact with their biotic and abiotic environments, compete for resources, and maintain biodiversity within complex communities. This understanding is critical for addressing conservation challenges and predicting how forests respond to environmental changes.
open_in_new WikipediaMycorrhizal type shifts the controls on tree root exudation from so...
Whether the oaks or pines in your local park are partnered with truffle-style fungi or fine-root-...
Sex-Specific Root Strategies Drive Asymmetric Nitrogen Transfer via...
Trees in your local park or forest aren't just passively growing side by side — they're engaged i...
Camouflage via leaf mottling among North American Erythronium speci...
The spotted trout lilies carpeting your spring woodland floor are wearing camouflage refined by d...
Masting Breakdown in European Beech Reduces Fitness Benefits of Mas...
Beech trees dropping a carpet of nuts every few years is what keeps squirrels, jays, and deer fro...
Trending: Canadian bunchberry (Cornus canadensis) — 356 observation...
Canadian bunchberry carpeting the forest floor of a boreal trail is one of the clearest signs tha...
Climate-induced shifts in ectomycorrhizal explorations from long to...
The conifers holding the treeline together in high mountain forests depend on wide-ranging underg...
Long-term demography and spatial genetic structure reveal mechanism...
That sassafras thicket at the edge of the woods you walk past — the one that smells like root bee...
LbCDF-B encodes a vacuolar Zn transporter in Laccaria bicolor with ...
Every oak, pine, and birch in your local woodland quietly depends on underground fungal partners ...
Considerable variation in embolism resistance in a temperate forest...
The oaks, maples, and hickories in your local woodland aren't equally tough in a dry summer—some ...
Tree-ring structure determines the temporal coordination between xy...
Oak trees in your local woodland are running a seasonal hydraulic gamble — their spring growth fl...
Contrasting whole-plant hydraulic strategies between light-demandin...
Ferns carpeting the forest floor or colonizing a sunny roadside bank are running completely diffe...
Gymnosperms.
The towering conifers anchoring your nearest mountain forest or state park are evolutionary survi...
Functional characterization of LbCDF-A, an ER-localized Zn transpor...
Every pine, oak, birch, and spruce you walk beneath relies on root fungi like Laccaria bicolor to...
bluebead lily (Clintonia borealis) observed in Grand-Bouctouche, Ne...
Bluebead lily is a reliable indicator of healthy, undisturbed forest understory — spotting it in ...
Foraging benefits of winning intergroup encounters in colobus monkeys.
The fruiting and flushing cycles of trees in West African forests are so ecologically valuable th...
