Biogeography & Vegetation

I’ve long found New Zealand’s black pine, the matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) to be a special tree. From a dishevelled juvenile, It can …

The fossils are clear – just a few million years ago Europe was covered in broad-leaved, evergreen forest. There were palm trees …

In Poland there are any number of subjects that might make good postcards, Polish girls perhaps. But decaying logs?  In the far …

When an entire landscape loses its forests, it can be so complete that most of us would have no comprehension of what …

New Zealanders are becoming aware of a new threat to their native forests – as if logging, burning, opossums, deer, ferrets, cats, …