Best development occurs on moist, deep, well-drained, fertile, loamy soils. This forest community is by far the most common in the Adirondack region occupying over 50% of the forested land. Sugar ...

New research reveals older trees use bioelectrical signals to warn forest of solar eclipses, showing advanced tree communication and adaptation.

A study of the iconic tree uncovers genetic secrets of value to wood, paper industries.

If you take a walk in a snowy field (or forest) among some birch trees, look down. You should see tiny things in the snow, little seed-like structures.

Tree characteristics determine competition amongst forest trees Date: December 23, 2015 Source: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL Summary: Three functional traits ...

In some of her earliest and most famous experiments, Simard planted mixed groups of young Douglas fir and paper birch trees in forest plots and covered the trees with individual plastic bags.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Birch species are generally small- or medium-sized trees or large shrubs ...

Trees share. Fast-growing birch send nutrients to slower-moving fir trees. In winter, the goods go in reverse. Birch, shorn of their leaves, receive sugars and carbon from evergreens. Mother trees ...

The U.S. Forest Service is removing dead and dying Douglas-fir trees, killed by bark beetles and spruce budworm, at the Birch Creek Center near the historic Civilian Conservation Corps camp north ...

In this 2010 file photo, a new-growth black cherry tree sprouts up in a stand of birch trees on protected conservation land in Weston, Massachusetts. (Charles Krupa/AP) In the big scheme of things ...

A new study sequences the genomes of 80 silver birch trees, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value for papermaking, construction, furniture-building and ...