Increasing shade cover over coffee plants can increase biodiversity and provide new ways to combine agriculture and conservation, a new study has revealed.
Ecology
Mar 14, 2024
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Non-vascular bryophytes live in colonies that cover the ground and resemble tiny forests. In a real forest, plants compete for light in different layers of the canopy. If a plant does not receive enough sunlight, it stops ...
Evolution
Jan 24, 2023
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Published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, a five-year study analyzed the atmosphere over the Amazon Rainforest to track the height and distance that hay fever-causing particles like pollen and fungi can travel.
Environment
Sep 21, 2022
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Across the country, thermostats are rising into previously unimagined realms. It's been a summer of record-setting heat across Europe and the United States, including California. Climatologists don't expect them to be record ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2022
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When a plant finds itself in too much shade, it redirects its resources to reach for light. Crop yield and root development stall as the plant focuses on growing taller, striving to rise above neighboring plants to access ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 27, 2021
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Scientists have discovered how plants manage to live alongside each other in places that are dark and shady.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2021
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A new study by Oregon State University researchers found that shade provided by solar panels increased the abundance of flowers under the panels and delayed the timing of their bloom, both findings that could aid the agricultural ...
Ecology
Apr 13, 2021
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Hurricanes, floods, drought and fire. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent as the climate changes and can destroy entire landscapes—both visible and invisible.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 24, 2020
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What could Azteca ants in coffee farms in Mexico have in common with leopards' spots and zebras' stripes?
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2019
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University of Michigan ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer have studied Latin American coffee farms for a quarter century, and they tracked the recovery of tropical forests in Nicaragua following 1988's Hurricane ...
Environment
Oct 30, 2019
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