Foster's Daily Democrat

Our biomes - the boreal forest and deciduous forest

One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...
JSTOR Daily

Composition, Dynamics and Disturbance Regime of Temperate Deciduous Forests in Monsoon Asia

Vegetatio, Vol. 121, No. 1/2, Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems in Monsoon Asia (Dec., 1995), pp. 23-30 (8 pages) Temperate deciduous forests in Monsoon Asia are classified into three forest ...
JSTOR Daily

Developmental changes in the reflectance spectra of temperate deciduous tree leaves and implications for thermal emissivity and leaf temperature

• Leaf optical properties impact leaf energy balance and thus leaf temperature. The effect of leaf development on mid-infrared (MIR) reflectance, and hence thermal emissivity, has not been ...
Science Daily

Deciduous trees offset carbon loss from Alaskan boreal fires

More severe and frequent fires in the Alaskan boreal forest are emitting vast stores of carbon, but new research from shows those losses are offset by the fast-growing deciduous trees that replace ...