The inaccessibility of African montane forests has hindered efforts to quantify the carbon stored by these ecosystems. A remarkable survey fills this knowledge gap, and highlights the need to ...

Trekking here takes you into the land of rare wildlife including gorillas and forest elephants. The dense canopy keeps the ...

Nitrogen (N) is thought to constrain plant growth in ecosystems with high phosphorus (P) availability. An important example is montane tropical forests that grow on geologically young parent ...

But still, the results show montane forests are likely a much more important carbon sink than expected. “Hopefully our study will inspire forest carbon projects in the mountains,” Spracklen noted.

“We are losing our montane forests faster than any other part of California,” said Jeff Heys, a landscape manager with the USDA Forest Service for the Southern California Wildfire Crisis Strategy.

Deforestation in Africa’s montane forests is driving a sharper rise in temperatures and cloud levels than climate change alone, endangering water resources in these critical ecosystems that ...

Maps show the distribution of tropical montane cloud forests, as estimated using cloud cover data from satellites. Satellites that observe the Earth provide many types of data about the planet's ...

Montane forests, known as biodiversity hotspots, are among the ecosystems facing threats from climate change. To comprehend potential impacts of climate change on birds in these forests ...

With this purpose, two very contrasting terrestrial ecosystems were selected: "the extremely cold continental taiga of Siberia and the comparatively warm and dry Mediterranean montane forests." ...

Near surface soil-water content is crucial to the sustainability of an ecosystem. ... one urban site and two adjacent sites, a montane forest (Flying J Ranch Open Space), and a native tallgrass ...