A research study getting underway in Oakland Forest, an old-growth beech forest in Portsmouth, could shed light on treatments ...

"Beech leaf disease doesn't kill trees as quickly as some pests, but the cumulative impacts—slower growth, energy loss, increasing mortality—add up. Especially in a forest where beech is ...

To date, beech leaf disease has not been reported in Europe ... and severe changes to internal leaf layers—changes that reduce the tree's ability to breathe and photosynthesize effectively.

They all had their leaves, unlike the taller broad, leaved trees deeper in the forest. Why? According to the Pennsylvania State Extension folks, “Beech and oak are deciduous native trees ...

Rangers at Prince William Forest Park are raising the alarm about Beech Leaf Disease (BLD), which is threatening one of the ...

Millions upon millions of worms. L. crenatae mccannii is thought to be the cause of beech leaf disease, a highly infectious pathogen that can disrupt a tree’s ability to photosynthesize and ...

But in recent years, a microscopic worm-caused disease has been targeting beech leaves, causing many trees to starve to death over time. The disease is spreading, and fast. WBUR climate and ...

In a small forest in Windsor, Connecticut, scientist Richard Cowles is among a team of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station employees spending his days studying a microscopic roundworm ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Ian Halm was walking in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in North Woodstock, N.H., last week when he encountered an unwelcome sight: leaves from a beech tree with a few dark ...

To date, beech leaf disease has not been reported in Europe ... and severe changes to internal leaf layers—changes that reduce the tree’s ability to breathe and photosynthesize effectively.

measures the diameter of an American beech tree as part of a long-term study on the impacts of beech leaf disease. First observed in northeastern Ohio over a decade ago, the disease is now rapidly ...