One person can’t measure all the trees in the world, but when many people come together, a global view becomes possible. A worldwide collaboration of scientists has produced the first ground-sourced data estimate of the total number of tree species on Earth and found that more than 9,000 species have yet to be discovered. Although […]
A recent article is featured on FAO REDD homepage: http://www.fao.org/redd/en/and under the News section: www.fao.org/redd/news/detail/en/c/1303779/ The article is authored by four members of the National Forest Monitoring (NFM) Team from the Forestry Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) – Javier García Pérez (Gamarra) (javier.garciaperez@fao.org), Rocío D. Cóndor-Golec (rocio.condor@fao.org), Rebecca Tavani (rebecca.tavani@fao.org), and Julian Fox (julian.fox@fao.org) […]
An international collaboration of hundreds of scientists – led in part by the Forest Advanced Computing and Artificial Intelligence(FACAI) Laboratory in Purdue’s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources – has developed the world’s first global map of tree symbioses. The map is key to understanding how forests are changing and the role climate plays in these shifts. […]
Loss of biodiversity has long been recognized as detrimental for nature, for nature’s sake. Now a team of scholars from 90 institutions in 44 countries show that it also provides enormous economic benefits. The team, formally known as the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative (GFBI), consolidated field-based forest inventory data from 777,126 permanent plots across the […]
