Through integration of aerial and ground-based mobile mapping sensors and systems, a team of Purdue digital forestry researchers has used advanced technology to locate, count and measure over a ...

For centuries, a forest canopy has been a hiding place as well as a habitat. People escaping slavery in the Americas, Spanish rule in the Philippines and Belgian rule in the Congo went into the trees ...

Tropical forests may look like a uniform sea of green from above, but new research shows that carefully measured differences in forest structure and function can help explain how birds use existing ...

Airborne maps of leaf chemistry across Peru's forests line up with differences in the birds living there, from body size to ...

Old-growth forests provide windows into the history of both landscapes and climate. Furthermore, as the pressures of climate change and biodiversity loss amplify, studying and monitoring old-growth ...

Forest canopies represent the interface between vegetation and atmosphere, mediating fluxes of carbon, water and energy. Canopy dynamics encompass processes of leaf production and abscission, crown ...

FSU Department of Geography Assistant Professor Liling Chang is part of a team of researchers that studied key factors that influence tropical forest canopy height on a global scale. A team of ...

The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future as global temperatures rise Vanessa Crooks The forest breathes! There is a ...

Canopy gap dynamics describe the formation, persistence and closure of openings in a forest’s upper layer, prompted by the mortality or removal of one or more trees. These gaps create mosaics of light ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map of the height of the world’s forests by combining data from three NASA satellites. The map will help scientists build an inventory of how ...

Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the ...

A lush canopy is a defining feature of most of the planet’s forests. But canopy-forming species can be particularly vulnerable to disturbances and environmental change. So the question is: What is a ...