Litter and leeches: the ideal environment for Australian brush-turkeys (not so much for other megapodes)
As the rain patters down the leaves of the canopy above, falling onto the foliage-filled ground, a swish of leaf litter flies onto the path in front of you. Quickly, you look up and see a large, red-faced bird kicking up piles of leaf litter to make his nest. What you are witnessing right now […]
Old-growth forests: One of our most precious natural carbon sinks, fewer in numbers than ever
The US Forest Service defines old-growth forests as “ecosystems distinguished by old trees and related structural attributes. Old growth encompasses the later stages of stand development that typically differ from younger stages in a variety of characteristics that may include tree size, accumulations of large dead woody material, number of canopy layers, species composition and […]
