The research was carried out by an international team from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Edinburgh and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute.

Whether it’s gracing your living room during the holidays or embodying the spirit of birth in celtic culture, the Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris) is one of the most important pines. It is the most ...

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My 25-year-old Scots pines are not looking good this spring and have lots of brown branches. What might be wrong, and is there anything that I can do to improve their health? Older Scots (Pinus ...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Annual growth rings inside the ancient remains of Scots pine trees in the Southern French Alps have revealed evidence of the largest-known solar storm, one that might have fried ...

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In northwestern Poland, the Crooked Forest features around 400 Scots pines with uniformly bent trunks, a phenomenon ...

Capercaillies, birds that live and breed amongst the Scots pines, have an intimate relationship with the tree. The males must compete for the right to mate exclusively with all the hen capercaillies. ...