Forests play a crucial role in promoting health and well-being, but not all forests provide the same benefits. A large-scale international study, co-led by the University of Surrey and the University ...

Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS): Lasers on the ground that scan trees from below. Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle Laser Scanning ...

The method not only overcomes limitations of traditional LiDAR scanning but also enables the extraction of other hard-to-measure crown parameters, promising to advance forest management, breeding, and ...

The idea that forest trees can 'talk' to each other, share resources with their seedlings -- and even protect them -- through a connective underground web of delicate fungal filaments tickles the ...

Native forest restoration usually starts with faster growing "nurse plants" that provide shelter under which to plant bigger ...

In the past three decades, poaching has decimated Africa’s now-critically endangered forest elephants, and as a result, their vital role as seed dispersers of many forest plants has been disrupted. A ...

Picture a forested hillside stripped bare, replaced by row after row of black solar panels. That’s the tradeoff many communities face: renewable power at the cost of ecosystems. But a growing body of ...

This article originally appeared on The Revelator. A forest needs all kinds of trees — even dead ones. Dead trees, known as “snags,” are some of the most valuable wildlife structures in the forest and ...

The left side of the flowchart illustrates the process of constructing spatial structure units, while the right side shows the process of building the coupling model using ensemble learning. The ...