Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been ...

In elementary school, most of us learned the basic differences between deciduous and coniferous trees. Deciduous trees have leaves that change color and drop in the fall, and coniferous trees have ...

SOME years ago it was found that the bark of the balsam poplar Populus candicans contains substances with fungistatic activity, and that these substances can be isolated from the bark by extraction ...

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 ...