News tagged with plant community dynamics

Life Underground Critical to Earth's Ecosystems

(PhysOrg.com) -- "I wonder if I shall fall right through the Earth!" mused Alice-in-Wonderland as she tumbled down the rabbit-hole." How funny it'll seem to come out among people that walk with their heads ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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Researchers conclude that climate change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilization

A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

New tool for visualizing the distribution of vascular plants in Belgium

The Belgian Biodiversity Platform has just released a new website "IFBL Data Portal, Explore Flora Checklists of Belgium". It aggregates about 23,000 checklists of vascular plants in Belgium, compiled since 1939 ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Molecular spectroscopy tracks living mammalian cells in real time as they differentiate

Knowing how a living cell works means knowing how the chemistry inside the cell changes as the functions of the cell change. Protein phosphorylation, for example, controls everything from cell proliferation ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The science of selflessness

In a talk at the Geological Lecture Hall on Thursday, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson outlined new thinking on how human social behavior evolved, saying that it was competition among groups of humans — ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 13

Same samples, different analytical strategies, complementary inferences

(Phys.org) -- The results of two separate but complementary analyses on 400 samples of Hanford Site groundwater appeared together in the journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. The studies ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

From foraging to farming: the 10,000-year revolution

Excavation of 19,000-year-old hunter-gatherer remains, including a vast camp site, is fuelling a reinterpretation of the greatest fundamental shift in human civilisation – the origins of agriculture.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Fertilization by invasive species threatens nutrient-poor ecosystems

They can estimate whether native plants in the neighbourhood of invasive species incorporate the nitrogen fixed by the latter. The biologists examined the Sydney Golden Wattle (Acacia longifolia), an Australian shrub that ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Indigenous peoples at forefront of climate change offer lessons on plant biodiversity

Humans are frequently blamed for deforestation and the destruction of environments, yet there are also examples of peoples and cultures around the world that have learned to manage and conserve the precious resources around ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Modeling microbes to manage carbon dioxide

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past decade, microbiologists began realizing that communities of microbes process energy and materials, which affects their environments. To understand how microbial communities function ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prolific plant hunters provide insight in strategy for collecting undiscovered plant species

Today's alarmingly high rate of plant extinction necessitates an increased understanding of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 15 to 30 percent of the world's flowering plants have yet to be discovered, making efficiency ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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