Deciduous forests in temperate zones were also thought to photosynthesize less and less efficiently as the summer goes on, similar to what happens as leaves age in some other plants like cotton.

These temperate, deciduous forests are in the northern hemisphere — places like North America, Europe and China. Like the U.S. East coast, these locations are also where a large portion of the global ...

The boreal forest is dominated by coniferous trees that are very well adapted to these conditions. Conifers are evolutionarily older than broad-leaved deciduous trees. They evolved under much more ...

Watching a forest breathe Using highly sensitive isotope analysis, a research team has obtained detailed measurements of carbon exchange in a temperate forest Date: June 29, 2016 Source ...

Seasonal patterns of carbon dioxide evolution from two different types of woodland soil were measured in relation to rainfall, soil moisture and temperature. A method of reducing variance in soil ...