In the lower portion of the mountain conifer zone, red spruce and balsam fir are both common. However, with increasing elevation, balsam fir tends to dominate. Near timberline, black spruce joins with ...

The ability of some Western conifer forests to recover after severe fire ... "The Klamath ecosystem is an important transition zone separating the shrubs of the California chaparral from the ...

A warming climate has left a fifth of the conifer forests that blanket ... or toward polar latitudes in order to stay in climate zones they have historically adapted to. Longer-lived species ...

It was a frigid, crystal-clear day when I first hiked through the dark forest of tall Canadian conifers. The mixture of red and black spruce, hemlock, white pine, tamarack and balsam fir was a ...

An expansion of eurozone forests using the dark green conifer is to blame for Earth hotting up, a view at odds with the idea that planting more trees will help slow the world's rising temperature.