In order for trees to grow, they need to control their water balance meticulously. A study shows how trees react to drought -- and revises previous perceptions. In order for trees to grow, they need ...
Tree-ring samples taken by Paulo Quadri, who earned a Ph.D. in environmental studies from UC Santa Cruz, were included in the study. (Photo by Luz A. de Wit) The top-line findings of a massive ...
Researchers from Purdue University's Department of Computer Science and Institute for Digital Forestry, with collaborator Sören Pirk at Kiel University in Germany, have found that artificial ...
About an hour east of Washington, D.C., there's a forest where trees are suddenly growing much faster than ever before — some of them even twice as fast. It's on the grounds of the Smithsonian ...
How do trees grow the strongest? Surprisingly, too much sunlight and too much easy, fast growth does not produce healthy trees. Most young tree saplings spend their early decades under the shade of ...