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New research determines soil-dwelling fungi affect global tree species — 25 June 2025

A team co-led by a Purdue University researcher has found that groups of fungi influence global tree species in distinct ways, depending on...

Professor named 2025 University Faculty Scholar for research in quantitative forest ecology — 12 May 2025

When Jingjing Liang, an associate professor in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, was named a 2025 University Faculty Scholar, the...

Purdue forest ecologist enhances global effort to solve environmental challenges with AI — 05 December 2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has tapped the expertise of Purdue University’s Jingjing Liang for a new...

Scientists from dozens of countries coming to Purdue for forestry collaboration in Science-i Bridging Worlds Workshop — 09 April 2024

In the spirit of building a community to manage and protect the world’s forests, Liang and his colleagues in Science-i created the Global Big...

Purdue forestry professor cultivates cyberinfrastructure for collaborative forestry research — 11 January 2024

While most scientific research fields maintain open-access data policies, access to forestry data remains limited. “The utmost hurdle for...

Study improves accuracy of planted forest locations in East Asia — 12 September 2023

An international team led by Purdue University scientists has created the first spatial database of planted forests in East Asia by combining data...

Future of AI in Natural Resource Management: Self-Learning Forest Growth Model — 02 May 2023

Whether we realize it or not, artificial intelligence—AI—plays a big role in our daily lives. In this episode of the Eastern...

Purdue launches new AI-based global forest mapping project — 25 January 2023

Purdue University’s Jingjing Liang has received a two-year, $870,000 grant from the World Resources Institute to map global forest carbon...

Analysis of global tree population explains baffling trends in species richness — 08 August 2022

Local species richness, the number of species that coexist in a local community, is a key measure of biodiversity.

First-of-its-kind estimate of the total number of tree species — 31 January 2022

One person can’t measure all the trees in the world, but when many people come together, a global view becomes possible. A worldwide...

Pandemic Lessons: Open Data for Forest and Climate Action — 13 August 2020

The article is authored by four members of the National Forest Monitoring (NFM) Team from the Forestry Division of the Food and Agriculture...

Nature paper offers global map to understand changing forests — 12 June 2019

An international collaboration of hundreds of scientists – led in part by the Forest Advanced Computing and Artificial Intelligence (FACAI)...

Forest Scholars Worldwide Team Up For Biodiversity Research — 11 June 2019

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...