... remote sensing. We expect to learn a lot from this campaign."
One interesting and unique feature of boreal forests is that, due to the harsh climate, they grow very slowly compared to temperate and ...
How best to map 'boreal' or northern forest with space-borne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign ... Covering about 15% of the Earth’s land surface, boreal forest plays an important role in the global ...
A vast tract of boreal forest in Manitoba and Ontario, touted by some as a potential World Heritage Site, has an estimated economic value of between $121 million and $130 million a year, a study ...
Songbirds living in the boreal forest are declining at a rapid rate and need protection from federal and provincial governments, according to a group of environmentalists and scientists.
Boreal forests store more than double the carbon originally thought, yet policy-makers overlook their role in fighting climate change, says a report released Thursday by an international ...
... the nitrogen content of canopy throughfall acts as a regulator of newly fixed nitrogen into these boreal forests. For this same reason, elevated nitrogen deposition from pollution likely reduces moss ...
A newly identified factor that controls the natural input of new nitrogen into boreal forest ecosystems has been reported in Science. The researchers showed that this natural fertilization process ...
The U.S. space agency is set to launch a three-week study into how fires in Canada's boreal forest contribute to Arctic pollution and affect climate change.
Scientists with NASA say their airborne pollution study on the impact of boreal forest fires in the Canadian Arctic went better than expected, and they hope to produce preliminary results in the fall. ...
... ally in mushrooms growing in dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and other northern ... what happens to carbon dioxide levels when boreal forest soil not containing permafrost is warmed ...
Trend for pointier appendages in heavily logged boreal forests, with blunter, rounder ones in reforested parts of New England
The world's last remaining "pristine" forest – the boreal forest across large stretches of Russia, Canada and other northern countries – is under increasing threat, a team of ...
... Area is significant because it's a transitional area between boreal forests – like those in Canada, Russia, Sweden, ... make big changes very quickly, but with a forest, the lifespan is 100, 200 years, so ...
... that the supposed benefits of biochar in increasing ecosystem carbon storage may be overstated, at least for boreal forest soils. The effect of biochar on the loss of carbon already in the soil needs ...
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Treseder studied the effect of rising temperatures and fungi on carbon stores in Alaskan boreal forests, one area of the globe that is experiencing greater warming than others.
“There is a lot of ...