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 ...

Scientists explore the utility of XGRIDS Portal Cam technology for creating high-definition digital forest twins for ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species across ...

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 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees killed by drought and an outbreak of bark beetles in California's Tahoe National Forest in 2023. AP Photo/Godofredo A.

The reason why so many tree species can coexist in species-rich forests has long been a subject of debate in ecology. This question is key to understanding the mechanisms governing the dynamics and ...

Researcher Dan-Bi Um at the Korea Maritime Institute compared conventional flat-panel arrays with solar trees — structures designed to mimic real trees, with panels branching upward like leaves. Their ...