Hard seeds are prevented from germinating by a water-impermeable seed coat, and for many years this has been considered to be a dormancy mechanism. Scientists from Kew, the University of Bergen and the University ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 15, 2013 not rated yet 0

Murdoch University researchers will be placing GPS tracking devices on six emus to track their movements and habits in jarrah forest at Avon National Park.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 26, 2013 not rated yet 0

Hunting for meat in the African rainforests has halved the number of primates. However, the hunting also has other negative consequences. The decline in the number of primates causes a reduction in the dispersal ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 20, 2013 not rated yet 1

(Phys.org)—A team of materials scientists at Harvard University and the University of Exeter, UK, have invented a new fiber that changes color when stretched. Inspired by nature, the researchers identified ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Jan 28, 2013 5 / 5 (7) 0 |

Elementary school students often learn that plants grow toward the light. This seems straightforward, but in reality, the genes and pathways that allow plants to grow and move in response to their environment ...

Biology - Other

Jan 02, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

Look out the window and you're likely to see the dispersal of seeds—dandelion tufts in the wind, a squirrel burying an acorn, a robin flying off with a dogwood fruit. You might even have a burr "velcroed" ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 19, 2012 not rated yet 0

A team of Michigan State University researchers will soon be heading into the rainforests of Nicaragua to help an endangered species known as a Baird's tapir co-exist with local farmers whose crops are being threatened by ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 16, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Ancient dung from a cave in the South Island of New Zealand has revealed a previously unsuspected relationship between two of the country's most unusual threatened species.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 02, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org)—The 'brightest' thing in nature, the Pollia condensata fruit, does not get its blue colour from pigment but instead uses structural colour – a method of reflecting light of particular wavelengths- ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 10, 2012 4.6 / 5 (28) 29

Big seeds produced by many tropical trees were probably once ingested and then defecated whole by huge mammals called gomphotheres that dispersed the seeds over large distances. But gomphotheres were probably ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 16, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 1 |

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. ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 30, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Preserving diverse plant life will be crucial to buffer the negative effects of climate change and desertification in in the world's drylands, according to a new landmark study.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 12, 2012 4.3 / 5 (6) 0 |

A new study from the Department of Environment and Conservation suggests long-term modern fire regimes could pose a threat to WA mistletoes (Loranthaceae sp).

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 19, 2011 not rated yet 0

Tropical birds are moving to higher elevations because of climate change, but they may not be moving fast enough, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 08, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 3 |

The pages of ecological history are filled with woeful tales of destruction from non-native species -- organisms that originated elsewhere.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 30, 2011 4 / 5 (5) 12