... change the weather? That's one question researchers hope to answer in a four-year research program in Western forests that are being infested by pine mountain beetles ...
... rates ultimately could lead to substantial changes in western forests, said Phil van Mantgem, a USGS ... , increasing tree mortality rates mean that western forests could become net sources of carbon ...
... of nitrate, the form of nitrogen that is most readily leached into streams. However, unlike previous studies from western forests, this study found very little consumption ...
Some environmentalists and scientists argue that the insects are a natural phenomenon, like forest fires, and play a vital ecological role.
... prescribed burns to manage western forests may help the United States reduce its carbon footprint ... step was to estimate the extent of carbon emissions if western forests, during the same time period ...
... beetles. Mountain pine beetles are native to western forests, and they have evolved with the trees they infest, such as lodgepole ... attacks may not, in fact, increase fire risk in western forests, Townsend believes fire and beetles ...
... have analyzed recent federal strategies to restore forests on western U.S. forestlands. They evaluated treatments implemented under the U.S. National Fire Plan ...
The forests of the Pacific Northwest and the oceans in the region will see significant species migration in coming decades because of climate change, two studies suggest.
A year's worth of rare footage from camera traps taken in Thailand's Western Forest Complex.
... diseases and how these pathogens will ultimately affect forest ecosystems in the Western United States and Canada. Drawing ... assessment was conducted as part of the Climate Change and Western Forest Diseases initiative. Full report ...
... , India remains committed to ensuring that tigers are conserved effectively within its boundaries. Similarly, in the Western Forest Complex in Thailand, the Thai Government ...
... large proportion of aspen in the western U.S. sport an extra set of chromosomes in their cells, a phenomenon ... ," he says. Iconic fall foliage of the north-western forests, aspen populations have been declining in recent ...
An army of rice-grain-sized beetles, attracted by warming weather, has moved into Canada's western forests, where its tree massacre is causing the mercury to rise yet further, a study said Sunday.
... areas. The researchers used computer modeling to show that in western forests, such a "compensatory response" provides potent ... stream nitrate concentrations at more than 100 sites in western Colorado containing lodgepole pines with a range ...