"The last volume in the series Ecosystems of the world"--Pref. Introduction / F. Andersson and P. Lhoir -- Boreal forests of Eurasia / H. Hytteborn ... [et al.] -- The boreal forests of North America ...

Within the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) framework, sustainable management of forests is recognised as an important challenge — one objective that will be addressed with the ...

Using satellite images, researchers found that fires in North America's boreal forest may be changing the environment in ways that researchers didn't previously anticipate. A new study, using a ...

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 ...

Soil stores large amounts of organic carbon, whose dynamic changes can cause huge impact on the global climate system. Forest succession is a long-term ecological process that can exert powerful ...

Primeval forests are of great importance for biodiversity and global carbon and water cycling. The three-dimensional structure of forests plays an important role because it influences processes of gas ...