Forest ecology

One of the least explored environments on earth is the canopy of rainforests high above the forest floor among the branches of tall trees is a living web of thousands of plants and animals. It is home for hundreds of birds and reptile, tens of thousands of insects and countless numbers of microbes. Recently, scientists […]

Reporter Tom Verde visits the first permanent temperate forest walkway in the United States, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. While researchers from temperate countries are rushing to study the diminishing tropical forest canopy, the biologist who built the walkway is one of the few studying the canopies in their own backyards.