Dead trees are also important to biodiversity because many specialized and even threatened species depend on them. However, identifying dead trees from aerial images is challenging, especially under ...

Walk into any woods in New England (or the world) and you are bound to find standing dead trees. Depending upon where you live and how you view natural ecosystems these can be viewed either as ...

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From microbes to four-legged critters, dead trees play an essential role in a forest’s ecosystem. Experts say it's rare that removal is necessary. Letting dead trees, like this bristlecone pine in the ...

From above, there’s no mistaking the loss. More than 11 million points pepper a map of the East Coast, each representing a once-living tree, in a trail of mortality stretching from South Carolina to ...