Foster's Daily Democrat

Our biomes - the boreal forest and deciduous forest

One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...
JSTOR Daily

Patterns in Woody Species Diversity, Richness and Partitioning of Diversity in Forest Communities of Tropical Deciduous Forest Biome

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The regressive succession model hypothesizes tropical savanna-woodlands to be a degraded stage of primary deciduous forests. Species diversity ...
JSTOR Daily

Life History Factors Affecting the Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase of Birds of the Deciduous Forest Biome

Forest birds, especially those of mesic forest, have life history traits favoring a lower intrinsic rate of natural increase (rm) than do birds of grassland, marsh, or forest edge. Specifically, ...
Phys.org

Bark beetle outbreaks raise forest temperatures, but deciduous trees offer cooling effect

A new study from Stockholm University reveals that spruce bark beetles, already infamous for killing millions of trees in Sweden, are also changing the forest microclimate. Using a combination of ...
The Conversation

As extreme fires transform Alaska’s boreal forest, deciduous trees put a brake on carbon loss and how fast the forest burns

Jill Johnstone acknowledges funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in Canada and in the United States from the Long Term Ecological Research Program (National Science ...
EurekAlert!

Bark beetles reshape forest microclimate – but deciduous trees can help

A new study from Stockholm University reveals that spruce bark beetles, already infamous for killing millions of trees in Sweden, are also changing the forest microclimate. Using a combination of ...