Ecology is the study of interactions between organisms and their environment. Biodiversity and ecosystem services are essential for the well-being of humans, living, and nonliving organisms. The study ...

Forest ecosystems are increasingly confronting the dual challenges of climate change and environmental disturbances. Rising global temperatures, altered precipitation patterns and intensified extreme ...

In 2019 and again in 2021, Penn State researchers in the Department of Geography walked a series of 1,000 square foot plots ...

Liza Comita, a forest ecologist who studies the dynamics of tropical forests with an emphasis on understanding the processes that maintain forest diversity and ecosystem function, was recently ...

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

California's coastal redwoods have stood for centuries, weathering a changing climate, logging, and time itself. But in an era of hotter, more frequent wildfires, their future resilience depends on ...