Globally Yue and Unger estimate that ozone from forest fires knocks back plant productivity by an average of 0.91 Pg of assimilated carbon per year. The additional aerosols from the fires increase ...

Plants are pretty, but thousands in the U.S. are invasive species, disrupting delicate ecosystems. ... Drifting, just above the forest floor at the Cincinnati Nature Center in Milford, ...

By Petro Kotzé The destruction of tropical rainforests — seen in shocking images of huge wildfires, vast clearcuts, and dying ...

Cockroach gardeners: Spreading plant seeds across the forest floor. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 13, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 08 / 170803091907.htm. Kumamoto University.

Pale trillium, Trillium discolor is a fine example of a native plant that is making a spring appearance, too. It starts taking off in early or mid-April, and what a beauty it is.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Certain types of tree-associated fungi make a forest a welcoming environment for invasive plant species, crowding out natives, including high-value trees such as oaks. The ...

Largest known genome is within this plain plant on the forest floor, study says. Amanda Schupak, CNN. Fri, June 7, 2024 at 2:39 PM UTC. ... but some plants have a lot more DNA than others.

It’s on the forest floor at your feet—or maybe even under them if you’ve wandered off the beaten path—where Mother Nature has chosen to show off her most unusual floral artistry and, in ...

In an effort to restore the forest floor plant community, Rutgers placed a deer-proof fence around the old growth forest in 2015 to try to limit overgrazing.

In a recently published study in the journal external page Ecohydrology, Floriancic, Kirchner and Molnar were able to show that dead plant material on the forest floor plays a far more important role ...

Tropical forests are highly productive ecosystems accounting for nearly half of the global forest carbon sink. If tropical forests can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the ...