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Unlike their cousins that nest mostly in the detritus of forest floors, these ants live most of their lives high in tree canopies.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023

Similar fears lead fire agencies to tame moderate fires that can clear forest floors.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2023

“We called them gray ghosts,” the now 77-year-old retired forester says of the American chestnut tree scattered throughout his former North Carolina home and still towering over the forest floors.

From National Geographic • Apr. 28, 2023

While wildfires once regularly simmered along the forest floors, today’s megafires are burning at high severity and searing some trees up to the top.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022

The trees generate most of the humus themselves, as their canopies interlace tightly in mature forests, permitting relatively little undergrowth to flourish on the forest floors beneath them.

From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane