Trees
Plant Diversity in Home Gardens
Fruit trees growing in home gardens around houses in Arslanbob, Kyrgyzstan. (All photos by Barbara Vinceti) >
Central Asia is the point of origin for a wide diversity of fruit and nut trees; including many local and wild varieties… read more
Widespread Amazonian depopulation and reforestatio..
Fossil pollen records from across the Amazon basin suggest that depopulation and resulting forest regrowth in Amazonia began centuries before European arrival and did not contribute to the observed decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide during the 17th century, according to… read more
‘Mother Trees’ Are Intelligent: They Learn and..
Few researchers have had the pop culture impact of Suzanne Simard. What captured the public’s imagination was Simard’s findings that trees are social beings that exchange nutrients, help one another.
Simard used radioactive isotopes of carbon to trace how trees… read more
Greening Landscape helps
For at least a century, air, ocean, and land temperatures on Earth have been steadily rising. For at least the past forty years, the planet has been growing a bit greener. Now researchers have found that the greening of the… read more
Tiny Woodlands Are More Important Than Previously ..
Small woodlands in farmland have more benefits for humans per area, compared to large forests, according to a new study. The small woodlands, sometimes even smaller than a football field, can easily go unnoticed in agricultural landscapes. Yet, these small… read more
