At a first-of-its-kind workshop, Quercus experts examined specimens, updated decades-old identifications, and began turning one of the world’s oldest oak collections into a clearer baseline for global...

Experiments manipulating tree species diversity and measuring effects on ecosystem function have been important tools for assessing how biodiverse forests can accumulate biomass, store carbon and help...

Climate change and biodiversity loss are tightly linked crises. Treating them as separate problems risks making both worse.

Spectral reflectance measured from herbarium specimens represents a potentially vast source of information relevant to plant taxon identification and functional traits, which has inspired many labora....

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Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

Join us for the Torrey Botanical Society's annual banquet and lecture on the The Hidden Heroes of Herbaria presented by Ryan Schmidt

We introduce a new “ecosystem-scale” experiment at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in central Minnesota, USA to test long-term ecosystem consequences of tree diversity and composition. T...

Six years ago I began a forest restoration project in Boulder Creek, CA using fire mimicry treatments to help improve the health of a grove of coast live oaks, some of which are likely more than 25…

A recent poll found that 74% of Minnesotans want schools to teach about the causes of climate change, its consequences and potential solutions.