Botanists found evidence for the effects of climate change stored in herbaria.
Tag - forests
Alun Salt
Reconstructing trees from terrestrial laser scans
A new algorithm supports the detailed reconstruction of a variety of trees from a small amount of input data.
Rachel Shekar
Call for Papers for Annals of Botany: 3D forest models and laser scanning data
Annals of Botany will release a Special Issue inspired by the 3D Tree Models for Forest Dynamics workshop held in Helsinki, Finland.
Alex Assiry
Let’s go down to the forest … to bathe!
Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Qing Li, Viking, 2018 If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise… * No, this blog item is nothing to do with a Teddy bears’...
Nigel Chaffey
Elevated carbon dioxide: Getting to the root of the problem
How will plants respond to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere? Botanists at BIFoR, the Birmingham Institute for Forest Research have gone underground to find some of the answers.
Guest Author
Plant happiness equation: People + Trees = :)
As a confirmed botanophile, I neither need to be told nor reminded that trees – and plants more generally – make one happy. But I also acknowledge that there are people who might not agree with that notion. So, for...
How tree species fill geographic and ecological space in North America
Ecologists broadly accept that the number of species present within a region balances regional processes of immigration and speciation against competitive and other interactions between populations that limit...
AJ Cann
There’s more to tree growth than hot air
One of the common claims about climate change is that it will be good for plants. Plants eat CO2 so more carbon dioxide must mean more food for plants. There are some problems with this idea. One is that plants also...
Competitive conifers prefer an uneven canopy
LIDAR survey of forests in Borneo and Japan shows that in the canopy conifers and broadleaf trees are battling to extract the most energy from the sun.
If you can have a forest anywhere grasslands exist, why do grasslands exist?
Joseph Crane asks if grasslands and forests are alternative stable states. If they are, what causes grasslands to persist, when they could become forests?
Natural Colour? How are the colours of New England in the fall changing?
New England is known for the colours of the trees in autumn. The leaves turn a striking red. However, research in PLOS One suggests that global warming could alter the appearance of autumn colours. There are a few...
Stochastic Modelling in Ecosystems
Predicting ecosystems responses under changing environment conditions is one of the major challenges in ecology. It is rendered more complex by the non-linear dynamics which characterise ecosystems and the partially...
Xuerong Mao
University of Oxford seeks First Wood Professor of Forest Science
“Forestry… may be called the younger sister and the servant of Agriculture. Each of these arts is essential to the welfare of nations, and no people can be said to be wise, politic, or economic which does not pay...
EU biodiversity strategy to 2020: Our life insurance, our natural capital
Deterioration of biodiversity jeopardises the wealth and employment we derive from nature, and endangers our wellbeing. In the EU, only 17% of habitats and species and 11% of ecosystems protected under EU legislation...
