News tagged with mountain birch
Plants discover the benefits of good neighbors in strategy against herbivores
Scandinavian Scientists have discovered that a species of tree defends itself from herbivore attack by using chemicals emitted by neighbouring plants. The study, published today in New Phytologist, reveals how a species of bir ...
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Sediments from the Enol lake reveal more than 13,500 years of environmental history
A team of Spanish researchers have used different geological samples, extracted from the Enol lake in Asturias, to show that the Holocene, a period that started 11,600 years ago, did not have a climate as ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Genetics of Arctic plants under serious threat from climate change, study says
A new EU study by a team of Austrian, French and Norwegian researchers has found that rising temperatures as a result of climate change will have differing genetic consequences within single Arctic plant species. ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Holm oaks will gain ground in Northern forests due to climate change
Holm oaks and other forests in lowland areas of Mediterranean mountains could expand by up to 350% due to global warming. In contrast, those forest formations that are more adapted to cold and humid conditions, ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Google Earth eclipses one billion downloads
Google Earth software has been downloaded more than one billion times, and that stellar achievement was marked Wednesday with a website showcasing ways the interactive replica of the planet is used.
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Seeing the wood for the trees: New study shows sheep in tree-ring records
Nibbling by herbivores can have a greater impact on the width of tree rings than climate, new research has found. The study, published this week in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, could ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Scientists track pronghorn by satellite
The pronghorn were captured in a helicopter netting operation on February 28, fitted with the collars, and released. The collars are scheduled to "drop off" of the animals at a future date through an automated ...
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Two new plants discovered in Spain
Just when everyone thought that almost every plant species on the Iberian Peninsula had been discovered, Spanish researchers have discovered Taraxacum decastroi and Taraxacum lacianense, two dandelions fr ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Tech-savvy put explosion of data to work
Sitting in a cafe in Sydney awhile back, Danny Kennedy and Andrew Birch mused about all the valuable free data Microsoft and Google float out on the Internet. In particular, they wondered if they could tap into the tech giants' ...
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Calif. utility stumbles on 1.4M years old fossils
(AP) -- A utility company preparing to build a new substation in an arid canyon southeast of Los Angeles has stumbled on a trove of animal fossils dating back 1.4 million years that researchers say will fill in blanks in ...
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Sep 21, 2010 |
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Signs of reversal of Arctic cooling in some areas
Parts of the Arctic have cooled clearly over the past century, but temperatures have been rising steeply since 1990 also there. This is the finding of a summer temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years ...
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Jul 29, 2010 |
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