News tagged with cycas micronesica
Guam Navy and University of Guam partner to conserve native tree
The University of Guam has completed the establishment of a conservation planting of Guam's endangered fadang tree on the island of Tinian. Guam Navy has funded the entire project and provided access to their ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Fadang photo makes the cover of major botanical journal
The research efforts of University of Guam scientist Thomas Marler have put Guam's endangered native cycad, Cycas micronesica (fadang is the Chamorro name) on the cover of the June 2011 International Journal o ...
Jul 29, 2011 |
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New research on rapidly-disappearing ancient plant offers hope for species recovery
Cycads, "living fossil" descendents of the first plants that colonized land and reproduced with seeds, are rapidly going extinct because of invasive pests and habitat loss, especially those species endemic ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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High construction cost for cycads
Self-sustaining organisms like plants possess the ability to synthesize their own food using inorganic materials. Plants use water and carbon dioxide to begin this process in their green tissues. The leaf ...
Jul 23, 2009 |
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