Forest ecosystems play a vital role in the global carbon cycle. While the significance of tree mycorrhizal fungi in this ...

Two lookalike trees may share your yard but only one's a menace. Learn how to spot the differences between an invasive species and a valuable native tree.

A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

Mowing leaves on a lawn chops them into small pieces that will fall between the grass blades and disappear. However, keeping ...

Bulbs that bloom in the spring are planted into the ground in the fall. These include those that are technically corms, ...

'November mulching also adds nutrients to the soil as it breaks down over the winter, and gives beneficial insects a place to ...

Leaching of water-soluble compounds is a dominant process during the first stages of litter decomposition, providing the microorganisms in the underlying soil with an important source of labile carbon ...

Marquez notes that citrus trees grow very slowly and may take up to 10 years from seed to become fruit-bearing. However, growing an orange tree from seed produces a beautiful tree with glossy ...

You can plant an olive pit and grow an olive tree either indoors or outside. Use an olive pit from an organic tree, rather than from a jar of olives you got at the store. Be patient! It can take years ...

The H+Al values reached in the short incubation, as well as by the CQFS-RS/SC (2016) equation (Equation 1) were correlated with the H+Al reached by long incubation of soils that received CaCO 3, these ...