By Ruth Kamnitzer Open any ecology textbook and you’ll find the Canada lynx, the snowshoe hare, and their wildly oscillating ...

Canada’s immense boreal forest covers half of the country and ... The spruce resin helps to preserve this larder, and over winter, the jay feeds itself and its chicks from this natural refrigerator.

A new study in Science examined more than 26,000 trees across an area the size of Spain (583,000 square kilometers) and found that boreal forests in ... of western Canada and Alaska this past ...

Mixed forests have different functional traits (growth and reproductive strategies, environmental stress tolerance, etc.), which are believed to make ecosystems resistant and resilient against ...

Canada’s northern forests provide nesting habitat for an abundance of diverse migratory birds that winter in the U.S ... migrate south from Canada’s boreal forest every fall.

"Our research provides by far the most accurate and credible answer to the question of how many trees are in our boreal forests," says study lead Fangliang He, a forest ecologist and Canada ...

an age that is still relatively young for the oldest species in eastern Canada. The strong competition for light in this closed-canopy forest causes trees here to grow very slowly. We found they grow ...

The exhibit of Canadian and Nordic landscape paintings, which arrives in Buffalo in August, reflects the growing ...

Flames rise from an experimental forest fire in Canada's remote Northwest Territories. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Common and hoary redpolls are 2 closely related finches of the boreal forest and Arctic ... seed feeders in southern Canada and northern United States during the winter, when they form large ...

Other countries like Japan, the USA, Canada, Russia and other parts of Scandinavia, also have coniferous biomes, like Finland. It’s winter and ... climate. The forest is dense and made up ...