Forest soil stores water, carbon and nutrients for trees and also provides a habitat for living organisms. When managing ...

Even before Darwin, naturalists used treelike diagrams to represent the lineages of different species. Yet for most of recorded history, living trees ... water, food and information in a forest ...

In a California forest torched by wildfire last ... of a shade canopy and carbon shedding from trees that intensifies the absorption of sunlight. Water forecasting factors in variables including ...

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Tropical montane cloud forest trees use more than their roots to take up water. They also drink water from clouds directly through their leaves, University of California, Berkeley, scientists have ...

"Snow is a key resource for fresh water supply and ecosystem function. Our study highlights that conserving big trees -- the very trees that often survive forest fires -- in forest ecosystems ...

To understand the impacts of drought, they would irrigate a mature forest, doubling natural summertime rainfall, and then compare how these water-rich trees fared in comparison with those ...