Moncton's wet and cool summer may be annoying to some residents, but it is also spurring on a fungus that is potentially deadly to some of the city's maple trees.
Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children ... descent, or after being launched by hand. The students studied maple seeds and developed a new design incorporating ...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say an invasive beetle targeting New England's iconic maple trees could easily spread from tree-lined city streets to neighboring forests.
... aspects of syrup production. Each spring, maple growers in temperate regions around the world collect sap from sugar maple trees, which is one of the first steps in producing this delicious ...
... maple trees share a suite of important arthropod pests that have the potential to reduce the trees' economic ... in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management offers maple tree owners information about the biology, damage ...
... have been investigating innovative ways to maximize the potential of trees to address stormwater in a series of studies supported ... , roots of both black oak and red maple trees penetrated clay loam soil ...
A number of maple trees in Worcester, Mass., will be chopped down because of an infestation of Asian long-horned beetles that is plaguing thousands of trees.
... in nitrogen cycling under sugar maple trees compared to other tree species are much higher ... of this nitrate occurring in sugar maple soils. Why the soils and trees are not consuming this nitrogen is still ...
... that examines the impact of stress on balled-and-burlapped trees. "We hypothesized that stresses associated with handling and transporting ... of woody plants in the landscape, the researchers studied maple trees at three critical stages in the transplanting ...
... twirling seeds of maple trees spin like miniature helicopters as they fall to the ground. Because ... the atmospheres of planets such as Mars—and of micro-helicopters. "Maple seeds could represent the most basic and simple design ...
... . Niklas and Cobb examined 15 red maple trees that differed in trunk size and found that the changes ... . This research provides new insight into the mechanism by which trees have evolved to obtain light and photosynthesize at the greatest ...
... -oxidants are present in the leaves, bark and twigs of the maple tree, so looking at the sap make sense." Seeram now has a sugar maple tree trunk sitting in his lab so ... view sap as the life blood of the tree," Seeram said. "Maple syrup is unique in that it is the only commercial product ...
... membership includes buttercups, apple trees, maple trees, dandelions and proteas. The 125 million ... and crowroot plants. "When we look at the branching relationships of the tree for this group, the Ranunculaceae is at the end of several branches ...
... seeds that drop from maple trees each fall, whirring softly to the ground like silent one-winged helicopters, are the inspiration ...
... of trembling aspen, paper birch and sugar maple trees at a 38-acre experimental forest in Rhinelander, Wis., from 1997 to 2008. Some of the trees were also bathed in elevated levels of ground-level ...
