DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

However, aspen also has the ability to send up new young shoots, or suckers, off the root system of an established tree, sometimes up to 30 metres away, if the tree is large.

Warming temperatures continuously impact mankind, wildlife, major corporations and propositions at all levels of government, ...

Aspens are one of Scotland's rarest and most important trees An initiative to save one of Scotland's most endangered species of tree has been launched in the Cairngorms National Park. Aspen ...

FLAGSTAFF — Beneath the scenic yellow and red leaves of soaring aspen trees in the Kachina Wilderness, forest ecologist Mike Stoddard is looking down. His concern isn’t the brilliant fall ...

An initiative to save one of Scotland's most endangered species of tree has been launched in the Cairngorms National Park.

Young aspens often don't survive because of factors such as grazing elk, according to a study by Northern Arizona University ...

An initiative to save one of Scotland's most endangered species of tree has been launched in the Cairngorms National Park. Aspen provides a vital habitat for rare wildlife, plants and fungi and is ...

Essentially, the aspen forest has been littered with young trees that are not capable of growing up and reaching adulthood.