Most plant fossils are isolated organs, making it difficult to reconstruct the type of plant life or its ecosystem structure. Botanists have now used leaf vein density, a trait visible on leaf ...

Rainfall redistribution by vegetation canopy is a critical ecohydrological process for nutrient replenishment in terrestrial ecosystems. In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences ...

The Canopy Layer . Most of life in the tropical rainforest exists vertically in the trees, above the shaded forest floor - in the layers. Each tropical rainforest canopy layer harbors its own ...

We found that the seasonal peak was earlier for photosynthesis than for canopy structure in >87.5% of the northern vegetated area, ... Nature Plants DOI 10.1038/s41477-022-01278-9.

Forest structures—particularly, the canopy structure—were found to have the strongest health impact, ... which can hinder the growth of medicinal plants, ...