Trees are silent sentinels to place and time. We pass by hundreds, if not thousands, of them each day on our drives and walks. We plant them from time to time in our yards and parks. They are ...

Researchers have conducted an empirical field study and concluded that single urban trees, such as street trees, function differently than trees grown in clusters featuring significantly greater ...

Close your eyes and tell me what you see when you think of Cascades Park. I see lots of concrete, grass and very few trees. It is not a tree shaded park. It is hot and mostly unusable in the summer ...

Trees are often heralded as the heroes of environmental mitigation. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which slows the pace of climate change, and sequester nutrients such as nitrogen, ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Water covers approximately 71% of Earth’s surface, yet only 3% of the 326 million cubic miles of water on the planet is suitable for growing crops, such as trees. It can be ...

Mycelium are incredibly tiny threads of fungal organisms that wrap around or bore into tree roots, composing what's called a mycorrhizal network that connects individual plants together. These dense ...

With spring in the Northern Hemisphere in full bloom, forests are again beckoning hikers onto paths that wend their way through thousands of acres of old growth trees. Such forests not only offer ...

Trees and Their Importance explores the vital role trees have played from early American settlement to modern life, emphasizing their ecological, economic, and societal value. It explains how trees ...

Tim Rademacher research is funded by the National Science Foundation (DEB- 1741585, HF LTER DEB-1237491 and DEB-1832210), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (416397182) ...