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 ...

The film "Life In The Deciduous Forest" explores the diverse ecosystem of the deciduous forests in the eastern United States, highlighting the seasonal changes that affect plant and animal life. It ...

Since the Industrial Revolution, the United States has warmed by roughly 2°F. As temperatures rise, climate change is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The regressive succession model hypothesizes tropical savanna-woodlands to be a degraded stage of primary deciduous forests. Species diversity ...

Forest birds, especially those of mesic forest, have life history traits favoring a lower intrinsic rate of natural increase (rm) than do birds of grassland, marsh, or forest edge. Specifically, ...

A new study from Stockholm University reveals that spruce bark beetles, already infamous for killing millions of trees in Sweden, are also changing the forest microclimate. Using a combination of ...

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 ...

When the nations of the world ratified the Paris Agreement, they adopted two different goals for how much they hoped they could limit climate change. While pledging to keep global warming “well below” ...