A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million ...

Did you know that most of the different languages we speak today can actually be placed in only a couple of groups by their ...

Very-High-Resolution Time-Lapse Photography for Plant and Ecosystems Research. Applications in Plant Sciences , 2013; 1 (9): 1300033 DOI: 10.3732/apps.1300033 Cite This Page : ...

Deforestation in the tropics is not only responsible for direct carbon emissions but also extends the forest edge wherein trees suffer increased mortality. Here we combine high-resolution (30 m ...

Only tree crowns of a sufficient size are captured in the images. Mugabowindekwe and his colleagues could generate maps at 0.25-m ... High-resolution global maps of 21st-Century forest cover change.

The tonka bean tree, scientifically known as Dipteryx oleifera, has developed the ability to not only survive strikes but also to transfer the electricity from lightning to its competitors and the ...

These are some of the highlights from a very-high-resolution (1-meter) map of canopy heights that can detect single trees at a global scale, in a development with massive implications for tracking ...

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, their findings reveal that many trees will face conditions far outside what they currently experience—especially under high greenhouse ...