Observations of insects and their feeding marks on leaves in modern forests confirm indications from fossil leaf deposits that the diversity of chewing damage relates directly to diversity of the insect population that created ...
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2014
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Tropical forests span a huge area, harbor a wide diversity of species, and are important to water and nutrient cycling on a planet scale. But in ancient Amazonia, over 500 years ago, clearing tropical forests was a way of ...
Environment
Jan 18, 2018
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Tropical forests in the Andes Mountains are changing in the face of climate change.
Environment
Aug 11, 2015
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Tropical species are six times more sensitive to forests being broken up for logging or farming than temperate species, says new research.
Ecology
Dec 5, 2019
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Around 30 to 40 million years ago, grasses on Earth underwent an epic evolutionary upheaval. An assemblage capitalized on falling levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide by engineering an internal mechanism to concentrate the ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 8, 2010
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When one of the world's biggest traders of agricultural commodities went to Gabon's government with a multi-million-dollar plan to produce rubber, the authorities jumped at the chance to diversify an oil-dependent economy.
Environment
May 20, 2015
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Large tropical mountain river systems aren't getting the respect they deserve—at least not when it comes to research and conservation.
Earth Sciences
Sep 13, 2019
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The temperate forests of Canada or Northern Europe may have much more in common with the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia or South America than commonly believed, according to a research group led by ...
Ecology
Sep 23, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thousands of hectares of tropical dry forests in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais are now safe from logging, thanks to scientists affiliated with a project called Tropi-Dry.
Environment
Apr 19, 2011
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Around the globe, forests are found to be undergoing strong changes due to human influence already today. Degradation of woods due to man-made climate change cannot be ruled out for the future, a special feature to be published ...
Ecology
Dec 23, 2014
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