News tagged with functional diversity

Birds' diverse traits survive Amazon fires

Research in the Amazon has shown that wildfires are less of a threat to the functional diversity of rainforest birds than you might expect.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biodiversity enhances ecosystems global drylands: researchers

An international team of researchers including Dr. Bertrand Boeken of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev suggest in a new study that plant biodiversity preservation is ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UNSW students sequence genome of the Wollemi Pine

(PhysOrg.com) -- UNSW students have sequenced the chloroplast genome of the ancient Wollemi Pine - a world first that could reveal how a "dinosaur" of the tree kingdom survived 200 million years of shifting ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal Differences

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Alternative agricultural practices combine productivity and soil health

The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0