Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Tree species and their names are a product of a two-part plant naming ...

Trees inferred from alternative-marker sets showed a higher degree of discordance with the GTDB taxonomy than those inferred by using alternative maximum-likelihood-inference software. To further ...

change in taxonomy — or go extinct. Smithsonian details other recent research that is trying to provide a better picture of the state of the world's trees: "In 2015, a study found that there are ...

Thus, taxonomy in itself is not of direct interest ... is that they are constantly re-arranging the human evolutionary tree. Indeed, it does seem that every significant new fossil is purported ...

The list of problems – spanning data, ecology, economy, society, and institutions – show how offsets fail to make up for biodiversity losses, according to Stanislav Edward Shmelev, the founder and ...

Taxonomy and systematics provide the foundation for studying ... identification and monitoring in virtually all environmental sciences, and evolutionary ‘tree thinking’ is now applied widely in most ...

There are some 73,000 species of trees on Earth, according to one recent estimate. The writer Daniel Lewis zeroed in on a tiny fraction of them for his new book, "Twelve Trees." Each chapter is ...