Introduction / Aline Chiabai -- Part I. Central American tropical forests, ecosystem services and human wellbeing -- An overview of forest biomes and ecoregions of Central America / Lenin Corrales, ...

Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy and productive. Before the rapid climate change of the past century, tree ...

Recent studies from two long-running planted forest experiments in China and Panama find that increasing tree diversity in reforestation efforts can boost resilience in the face of climate change, ...

Forest ecosystems are increasingly confronting the dual challenges of climate change and environmental disturbances. Rising global temperatures, altered precipitation patterns and intensified extreme ...

For over 50 years each spring, researchers with Connecticut’s Great Mountain Forest, nestled in the Litchfield Hills, have been recording how early three Persian Lilac trees begin to bud and flower.

Researchers at the University of Würzburg have shown that dung beetles suffer in canopy openings that have been deliberately ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thinking through scenarios allows land managers to prepare for many potential outcomes. Benjamin Slyngstad via USGS In Sequoia and ...

This is one of Madagascar’s most spectacular landscapes: An immense labyrinth of limestone where exceptional flora and fauna flourish. However, rising temperatures, disruptions in rainfall patterns, ...

Along with forests, grasslands and wetlands are also being converted to cropland and pasture at an increasing rate around the world—often for livestock farming and the export of agricultural products.