One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...
Jill Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan; Heather Dawn Alexander, Auburn University; Michelle C. Mack, Northern Arizona University, and Xanthe Walker, Northern Arizona University Fire is a hot topic ...
Understanding relationships between canopy structure and the seasonal dynamics of photosynthetic uptake of CO₂ by forest canopies requires improved knowledge of canopy phenology at eddy covariance ...
Lidar remote sensing has shown high accuracy/precision for quantification of forest biophysical parameters needed for ecological management. Although the significant effect of Bidirectional Scattering ...
Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...
Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been ...
Jill Johnstone acknowledges funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in Canada and in the United States from the Long Term Ecological Research Program (National Science ...