This forest community, sometimes called the mountain boreal forest, is comprised largely of conifer ... openings occupied by a variety of characteristic bog shrubs and sphagnum moss. Black spruce and ...

The proportion of such ditches from all forest ditches is increasing ... Vegetation impacts ditch methane emissions from boreal forestry-drained peatlands—Moss-free ditches have an order ...

Ever wonder how many trees stand tall in North America's vast boreal forest? A new University of Alberta study has the answer ...

In some of Canada’s more northern forests and peatlands, the vegetation on the forest floor can be metres deep, jammed with sphagnum and feather moss. “When we look at boreal forests ...

He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained ... one of the easiest-to-find animals in the boreal forest. The square-jawed biologist ...

Canada is looking to its Indigenous communities to help manage its boreal forests, the world’s largest intact forest ecosystem and one of its biggest stores of carbon. Deep, soft, moss carpeting ...

Actually, layers of moss and organic peat are much better protectors of permafrost—and they are exactly typical features of the boreal forest. They are what protects the permafrost in the boreal ...

University of Oregon Professor Emeritus Bart Johnson said wildfires, specifically those incinerating boreal forest, create an amplifying feedback loop. Climate change increases the frequency and ...

The boreal forest ecosystem is usually found farther north ... It crosses the Drowned Lands — a stretch of high-elevation wetland, home to red maple and sphagnum moss, mink and winter wren, viburnum, ...