The types of beneficial fungi that associate with tree roots can alter the fate of a patch of tropical forest, boosting plant diversity or, conversely, giving one tree species a distinct advantage ...

Researchers divided the 36 highly specific types of forest into six general groups. Those groups roughly fit the topography and geography of the country. G. Asner et al/Science 2017.

The study takes into account different types of tree cover: forest formations, savannas, flooded forests, mangroves, and restingas. According to MapBiomas, these ecosystems take up 58 percent of ...

IN the discussion upon Dr. C. E. P. Brooks's intersting paper, “The Influence of Forests on Rainfall and Run-off” (Quart. Jour. Roy. Met. Soc., 54; 225), Mr. W. Vaux Graham (p. 16) states that ...

If you search for a certain spot in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, on Google Maps, you'll see this curious forest formation. So why is there a ...