Emerging data highlight how forest destruction and fragmentation can encourage transmission of zoonotic diseases.

A management strategy focused only on deer, or only on invasive shrubs, results in little or no forest health improvement, ...

If left unchecked, both overabundant white-tailed deer populations and invasive shrubs like Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) can devastate deciduous native tree regeneration. Yet, a management ...

Forests also provide essential health products such as hygiene and ... These diseases originate from the transfer of pathogens from animals to humans, and they usually occur when natural ...

And many animals also take advantage of the freshly burned forest. The charred remains of trees provide the perfect habitats for insects and small wildlife. Wood wasps, for instance, depend on the ...

In crisis situations, forests become an economic and food lifeline, providing up to 20% of family income in rural areas, guaranteeing healthy diets ... species of wild animals are used as food.

Some non-native species (plants, animals, microbes, and fungi not originally from ... For example, ecological studies have shown that fire plays a key role in maintaining healthy forest ecosystems in ...