Irruptions bring surprise visitors from the far north to your feeders—an opportunity to witness one of birding’s great ...

Public Interest Boreal forest stores more carbon than tropical forests, MSU Smithsonian exhibit shows Published: Apr. 15, 2023, 8:00 a.m.

What do the landscape painters of Canada and northern Europe have in common? Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern ...

Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America. Nature Climate Change, 2023; DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01851-w ...

For example, the boreal coniferous forest area "the taiga" that stretches like a ribbon across the whole world, accounts for 14 per cent of the world's vegetation coverage, and is thus the world's ...

The Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve is a Midwestern US biology field station that encompasses three different biomes: tallgrass prairie, eastern deciduous forest and boreal coniferous forest ...

Historically, fires in North American boreal forests have led to coniferous trees being supplanted by deciduous trees, which are faster growing, take up more carbon and reflect more light, leading ...

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere.

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) derived from plant litter plays an important role in the ecosystem carbon balance and soil biogeochemistry. However, in boreal coniferous forests no integrated ...