Scientists just found evidence that Antarctica was a rainforest when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Some 90 million years ago, ...

By simulating the future atmosphere, scientists hope to understand whether trees will continue to act as the lungs of the ...

More than a 100 local people have devoted hundreds of hours to planting species - including oak, rowan, alder, hazel, birch, ...

Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a ...

Regions of similar climate and dominant plant types are called biomes. This chapter describes some of the major terrestrial biomes in the world; tropical forests, savannas, deserts, temperate ...

A study in Forest Ecosystems shows that particulate organic carbon (POC) dominates surface soils, while mineral-associated ...

including rainforest, deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the trees and other plant and non-plant species, as well as ecosystem processes and ...

The temperate index is calculated from terrestrial and freshwater populations from the Palearctic and Nearctic realms, and marine populations found north or south of the tropics. The global tropical ...

Threats to the habitats include deforestation, climate change, air pollution and ash dieback. Temperate rainforests are woodlands found in the middle latitudes of the Earth that receive heavy ...