Researchers at the University of Arizona's Tumamoc Hill have digitized 106 years of growth data on individual plants, making the information available for study by people all over the world.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 29, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Moving animals for conservation is not a panacea. This is what Irene Pérez and colleagues from Arizona State University and several Spanish institutions have concluded after evaluating 280 published ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 06, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—Researchers studying Drosophila pachea, a species of fruit fly that lives only in the Sonoran desert, have discovered why it is that the fly is wholly dependent on a single cactus species. It's d ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 28, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Recording light from millions of light years away and then sending it to the Indiana University Data Center at the corner of 10th Street and the State Road 45/46 Bypass, a new camera at Kitt ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Sep 27, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

A recent study of residential landscape types and native bird communities in Phoenix, Ariz., led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst urban ecologist suggests that yards mimicking native vegetation and ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 22, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, biosynthetic genes, a finding that suggests the existence of a far ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 21, 2012 not rated yet 0

Global warming is giving a boost to Sonoran Desert plants that have an edge during cold weather, according to new research.

Biology - Ecology

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