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’...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Joseph Crane asks if grasslands and forests are alternative stable states. If they are, what causes grasslands to persist, when they could become forests?
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...
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...