An international study has revealed spruce ... trees not only respond to a solar eclipse but actively anticipate it by synchronizing their bioelectrical signals hours in advance into a cohesive ...

White spruce trees produce great pulses of cones ... Boutin calls “adaptive anticipation” within the orange lords of the boreal forest.

And because all organisms are driven by survival – from viruses to apex predators – this electrome system appears to be the way this forest-wide ... purpose. Spruce trees, which are evergreen ...

Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar eclipse, a new international study suggests. "We now see the forest not as a ...

A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst ... as opposed to "drooping" branches on some spruce trees. Fir tree needles are soft and flat ...

The name speaks for itself — Sitka Spruce Park on Amaknak Island has dozens of spruce trees, creating a rare forest-like sanctuary. Regional lands are known for their tundra valleys filled with ...

A ground breaking international study has revealed spruce ... a cohesive, forest-wide phenomenon. The discovery, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, shows older trees exhibit ...