Soil stores large amounts of organic carbon ... The series include shrub, deciduous broad-leaved forest, broadleaf-conifer mixed forest, middle-age coniferous forest and mature coniferous forest.

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

to be met by a carpet of humus and percolate into the soil. Even today, in dense broadleaf forests, there is very little run-off during the heaviest rainfall. The important point that the ancients ...

For degraded and monoculture forests, broadleaf tree species were selected for intercropping ... These improvements have enhanced water-holding capacity and promoted soil conservation, biodiversity ...

There are plenty of reasons for widespread broadleaf tree planting ... creating a functioning forest ecosystem, improving the forest floor and soil nutrition, and fostering wildlife and ...

Scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an automated monitoring system to continuously track methane absorption by forest soils.

The soils of northern forests are key reservoirs that help keep the carbon dioxide that trees inhale and use for photosynthesis from making it back into the atmosphere. The soils of northern ...