KS3/GCSE Geography. Deciduous forests. Investigating the New Forest and the layers that make it up, as well as how animals ...

A new study shows that most native European temperate forest plants are adapted to semi-open, light-filled woodlands – formed over millions of years by the influence of large, free-ranging herbivores ...

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

Much maligned and undervalued over the centuries, temperate peatlands have seen a lot damage in that time — drained for agriculture, planted with trees, mined for horticulture and fuel. But in an age ...

Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...

The total land surface of the Earth has about a third of its area covered by forests. The forest is highly significant in ...

Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. Researchers have analyzed 917 native forest plant species in Central and ...