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Forest soil stores water, carbon and nutrients for trees and also provides a habitat for living organisms. When managing ...
Conducted by ecologists in the University’s College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources, the study suggests ...
Saskatchewan is battling the worst wildfire it's seen in decades — including the 300,000-hectare Shoe Fire in northern ...
People tasked with managing landscapes identified three key ingredients for constructing credible ecological scenarios.
Moose will browse on buds, bark and the tender tips of fir in winter, and deer will employ them for visual cover due to the ...
We developed a framework to estimate the engineering resilience of forests (to wildfires) that are subjected to seasonal changes. The findings suggest that deciduous broadleaf forests exhibit lower ...
Want to learn how to make compost for your garden? Not only does compost help your plants grow stronger and healthier, but it ...
The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even faster.
North Devon has planted over 200,000 trees across new woodlands as part of a historic rewilding project to fight climate ...
Litter production in forest ecosystems is a major indicator of primary productivity because litter helps incorporate carbon and nutrients from plants into the soil and is directly involved in ...
Fluridone offers a new tool in the arsenal to fight herbicide resistance in Palmer pigweed, but it can cause injury to some rice cultivars, depending on when it is used.
Forest decline in the northeastern United States has been linked to the effects of acid deposition on soil nutrients. To test this link, we added a calcium silicate mineral to a paired watershed at ...