Birch trees, with their beautiful bark, cute catkins, and lovely leaves, are ideal landscape plants for many yards. In the right location, birch trees can live for decades, but sadly, many trees ...

Climatic stress events, such as extreme temperatures and prolonged droughts, are increasingly affecting tree growth and phenology—the timing of developmental stages like leaf burst and senescence.

Forests provide many ecosystem services, including microclimate regulation, biodiversity preservation, air and water ...

Sugar maple, American beech, and yellow birch are the predominant tree species. Yellow birch occurs most frequently at the lower limits of this community. Lesser amounts of red spruce, white pine, ...

The group put nine tree species through their paces, with three clear winners in the top tier, the study, published May 16 in Environmental Science & Technology, finds. Birch, the best-performing tree ...

The study focused on silver birch trees and found that species richness and competitive pressure for light in the immediate vicinity influenced the timing of spring leaf burst, while water ...