Mixed forests more productive than monocultures Date: January 9, 2013 Source: Expertsvar Summary: Forestry and nature conservation can benefit from promoting a diversity of tree species, new study ...

U.S. forests are great at capturing carbon in the atmosphere and storing carbon in long-lived products such as lumber and plywood. However, according to regulators, carbon offsets are supposed to ...

Trees you can expect to find include beech, maple, yellow poplar, oak-hickory, mixed pine-hardwood. The alternate name is the transitional mixed forest. Coastal Plain Mixed Evergreen Forest .

Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada that were wiped out by western pine beetles during the 2012-2015 megadrought won't recover to pre-drought ... A mixed bag of impacts. It's a mixed bag, ...

Forests with few tree species pose a considerably higher risk of being damaged, and the introduced lodgepole pine is especially vulnerable. This is the finding of a new study published in ...

Forests of mixed hard and soft woods provide excellent habitat for birds, mammals, insects and reptiles. When trees mature and die, they provide cavities for nesting and rearing young of many species.

Sites across North America include western larch-mixed-conifer forests in the Flathead National Forest, in Montana; diverse pine-hardwood woodlands at the Jones Center at Ichauway, in Georgia ...

Palik, a forest ecologist with the US Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Northern Research Station, stops and points to a newcomer under the red-pine canopy: a broadleaf deciduous tree ...

Cedars. Incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens): From the mixed pine forests of the Sierra, this intensely fragrant, slow-growing tree is said to have escaped the axes of 19th century loggers because ...

Heavy logging during the British colonial era and replanting with a single species—fast-growing pine—weakened forest health. Now, locals are making room for more oaks to regrow.