AbstractWe examined the decomposition of 3 riparian leaf species (alder, birch, and willow) in a boreal woodland stream during winter. Based on initial leaf quality, we expected willow leaves to ...

Transects were cut from alder leaves incubated in a freshwater stream and plated as quadrats so that fungal isolates could be mapped by reconstruction of each transect. Initially there was fewer than ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The white alder is an inhabitant of ‘the other California,’ that small ...

In early August, on the trail that starts near the end of the North Douglas Highway, I found a funny looking thing on the underside of an alder leaf. There was a long, thin, stick-like form underneath ...

It started back in late winter, with a blush that colored entire hillsides and roadsides. Alders, among the first to take their cue from the advance of the season, glow with color as their catkins and ...

As the colors of the wildflowers give way to the changing colors of the leaves, we know fall has arrived in Summit County. Our High Country’s forested landscape may be dominated by evergreen trees, ...

One July day I was moseying along a streambank, looking at the alders. Both red and Sitka alders grew there, but I was focused on the Sitka alders; I examined many leaves and put a few into a plastic ...