Whether it’s gracing your living room during the holidays or embodying the spirit of birth in celtic culture, the Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris) is one of the most important pines. It is the most ...
Old-growth coniferous forests in Scandinavia are usually composed of trees of different species and ages, but today most forest areas are managed into even-aged stands, representing stages from clear ...
(a) The distribution of sample plots in the boreal zone of China. (b) The impact of stand age, density, and tree species richness on tree height, diameter at breast height, and stand biomass. "We ...
Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have revealed the mechanism behind the dieback of natural Mongolian pine (Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica) ...
1 This paper evaluates the role of soil drainage in tree seedling performance at a site being restored from Calluna vulgaris moorland to Pinus sylvestris woodland, in Glen Affric, Scotland. The ...
• Early-stage fitness variation has been seldom evaluated at broad scales in forest tree species, despite the long tradition of studying climate-driven intraspecific genetic variation. In this study, ...
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