Trees are tall. Humans, relatively speaking, are not. And we're not the most agile climbers in the animal kingdom, either. But we are crafty, and we can out-think even the most wizened redwood. But ...

It’s the kind of stumper a chronically curious kid might pester a parent with: Daddy, how tall can a tree grow? Now, in a daredevil field study one researcher describes as “breathtaking,” a team of ...

Three functional traits – wood density, specific leaf area and maximum height – affect competition in predictable ways across all forested biomes worldwide, new research indicates. An international ...