News tagged with landscape genetics
Plants and animals under greater threat due to climate change
Plant and animal species can lose their ability to adapt as a result of climate change. This is shown by research performed by Marleen Cobben with which she hopes to obtain her doctorate at Wageningen University on April ...
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Scientists Explore How Landscape Affects Wildlife, Plant Genetics
(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Idaho College of Natural Resources is leading efforts to advance scientific understanding of a relatively new area of research called "landscape genetics," a science that has high potential ...
Jul 23, 2010 |
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Mystery of monarch migration takes new turn
During the fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies living in eastern North America fly up to 1,500 miles to the volcanic forests of Mexico to spend the winter, while monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains fly to the ...
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Looking out for the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
A new genetic study has shed light on how the newly discovered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey evolved.
May 25, 2012 |
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Tracking endangered elephants with satellite technology
A hundred years ago wild elephants on the Malay Peninsular could be counted in their thousands — now there are less than 1500. Over the last century around 50 per cent of forest cover in Peninsular Malaysia ...
May 23, 2012 |
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Plant enzyme's origins traced to non-enzyme ancestors
(Phys.org) -- As plants began to transition from aquatic habitats to dry land some 500 million years ago, their needs changed. Those primitive ancestors of modern plants were ill-equipped to survive in a dry, sunlight-blasted ...
May 13, 2012 |
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Beetle-fungus disease threatens crops and landscape trees in Southern California
(Phys.org) -- A plant pathologist at the University of California, Riverside has identified a fungus that has been linked to the branch dieback and general decline of several backyard avocado and landscape ...
May 08, 2012 |
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Improved loblolly pines better for the environment, study finds
(Phys.org) -- More than 50 years of genetics work to increase loblolly pine production in the Southeast has improved the trees' ability to act as carbon sinks that mitigate climate change, according to a new ...
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Traffic harms Asturian amphibians
The roads are the main cause of fragmenting the habitats of many species, especially amphibians, as they cause them to be run over and a loss of genetic diversity. Furthermore, traffic harms two abundant species ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Groups are the driving force of human evolution, Edward Wilson says
Plays well with others. There’s a reason that attribute is lauded, and it turns out to have evolutionary roots.
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Apr 09, 2012 |
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Scientists develop crop for livestock in dry climates
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool are working with international partners to develop new forage crop for the hot and dry climate of regions such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Mar 27, 2012 |
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What should be done about the disappearing wolves of Isle Royale?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The number of wolves at Isle Royale National Park has dipped to nine—the lowest number seen since Michigan Technological University’s wolf-moose predator-prey study began 54 years ...
Mar 19, 2012 |
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