Restored forests store carbon within the forest’s soil, shrubs, and trees. Mixed forests are especially effective at carbon storage, as different species with complementary traits can increase overall ...

Competition between trees is one of the driving forces in the natural regeneration of forests. Water scarcity greatly intensifies competition; small trees are suppressed. In mixed forests, there is ...

Recently, scientists from Yokohama National University discovered that coastal forests that contained mixed tree species bore the tsunami forces better and with less damage than monoculture ...

Forests with few tree species pose a considerably higher risk of being damaged, and the introduced lodgepole pine is especially vulnerable. This is the finding of a new study published in ...

Diverse forests with mixed species store 70 per cent more carbon than monocultures which have only one variety, new research has found. (Representative Image/Photo by Manoj Kumar/ Hindustan Times ...

Fungi, insects, fires and cervids, such as moose, are examples of natural factors behind tree damages in Swedish forests. Sometimes, the damages become so extensive that they impact the function of ...