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 ...

Despite the difficulties in their taxonomy, sweet gum trees are in fact widely distributed and well known, due to their varied uses by people. They are valued for their high quality timber 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 ...