A new model can help botanic gardens discover where they should source endangered plants when they want to aid conservation efforts.

Climate change is about more than simply warming, and these other effects should not be overlooked.

Botanists find it's easier to find the gene to cope with a problem if you carry more copies of genes.

Snow cover can delay the growing season of plants, but reducing it can also have negative consequences.

This study sheds light on the evolution of two endemic juniper species from the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and their responses to Quaternary climate fluctuations

Can variation in seed morphological traits allow us to estimate genetic variation in seed banks of vulnerable plant species?

Terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) have successfully captured various properties of individual trees and have potential to further increase the quality and efficiency of forest surveys. However, TLSs are limited to line of sight observations, and forests are complex structural environments that can occlude TLS beams and thereby cause incomplete TLS samples. Boucher et al. evaluate […]

Quantifying the Earth’s forest above-ground biomass (AGB) is indispensable for effective climate action and developing forest policy. Yet, current allometric scaling models (ASMs) to estimate AGB suffer several drawbacks related to model selection and uncertainties about calibration data traceability. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) offers a promising non-destructive alternative. Tree volume is reconstructed from TLS point […]

There's more recognition that ecological restoration can be an essential tool in fighting climate change, and there are many projects aimed at restoring degraded forests to capture carbon. Still, the focus on forests ignores much of the land in the tropics that would not naturally be forested. A team of scientists is arguing that people need to become aware of other habitats and their value.

A new algorithm supports the detailed reconstruction of a variety of trees from a small amount of input data.

Some of the problems that limit the number of species in the Arctic might also contribute to creating new species.

A new model simulates rhizodeposition patterns around growing and exuding root systems.