Canada's boreal forests have adapted to burning events, but they are now burning more than they should and can't grow back ...
Boreal forests encircle the cold ... "The currently dominating sparse and dense forest types burn less frequently than the open type," says Milena Holmgren, co-author of the study.
Flames rise from an experimental forest fire in Canada's remote Northwest Territories. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!
Matt Oakleaf, camera mounted on his gear bag, drops behind the rest of his team to a landing site near smoldering boreal forest ... to fight a backcountry forest fire. A Fire Boss plane dumps ...
A recent study has explored how changes in moth abundance affect insect-eating birds in Finland. The findings, published in ...
The forest in this region is much more populated ... "Fire is very much a part of the boreal ecosystem." Fire has also been historically integral to human settlement in the Russian taiga.
These hardwood species tend not to persist in the forest canopy for long periods of time, but re-invade after fire, windthrow, or snow damage. Beneath the deep shade of the boreal conifers, the forest ...
Didion, M., M.-J. Fortin, and A. Fall. 2007. Forest age structure as indicator of boreal forest sustainability under alternative management and fire regimes: a landscape sensitivity analysis.