TUCSON — When Bryan Black accepted a post-doctoral research position at Oregon State University to study how fish grow, he hoped to apply his background in forest ecology to marine life. Black, a ...

In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...

Weather patterns like heat waves or dry spells can sometimes stall over one region. A new University of Arizona study found clues about why. The researchers analyzed tree rings from centuries-old ...

A new study leveraging 20,000 tree-ring records and nearly 150 scientists' contributions from across the globe shows that, while droughts appear to have had a modest impact on tropical tree growth in ...

The study of tree rings may help prepare for space weather events that could threaten satellites and astronauts. Amy Hessl, professor of geography at WVU, is leading a project funded by the National ...

If you cut down a tree, you can read in the wood an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative. In a basement in Tucson, Ariz., slices of tree trunks stand on shelves. They ...