The study highlights the importance of considering tree evolutionary relationships when assessing biodiversity and ecosystem function. By recognizing how tree composition influences ecological ...

Call it the wood wide web. Although we think of trees as competing with each other ... survive and continue to carry out their ecosystem functions if all the beech, for example, are wiped out ...

such as street trees, function differently than trees grown in clusters featuring significantly greater transpiration rates. This result offers a new understanding of how to manage the landscape ...