News tagged with tropical trees
Rainforest conservation needs a new direction to address climate change
Conservation and international aid groups may be on the wrong course to address the havoc wreaked by climate change on tropical rainforests, according to a commentary appearing in the journal Nature on 2 D ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Evidence is weak for tropical rainforest 65 million years ago in Africa's low-latitudes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The landscape of Central Africa 65 million years ago was a low-elevation tropical belt, but the jury is still out on whether the region's mammals browsed and hunted beneath the canopy of a ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 20, 2010 |
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Tropical biodiversity is about the neighbors
Home to jaguars, harpy eagles and red-eyed tree frogs, tropical forests support some of the rarest species on the planet and are the most biodiverse ecosystems on land. Understanding why some species are common ...
Jun 25, 2010 |
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Trees tell of shifting world
(PhysOrg.com) -- Trees from the Harvard Forest to the Amazon rainforest are experiencing changing climactic conditions, with rising temperatures potentially making tropical trees a significant source of carbon dioxide.
May 04, 2010 |
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Ancient 'monster' insect offers Halloween inspiration
Just in time for Halloween, researchers have announced the discovery of a new, real-world "monster" - what they are calling a "unicorn" fly that lived about 100 million years ago and is being described as ...
Oct 26, 2009 |
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The secret jungles of ancient France
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ah, Paris. Land of the Eiffel Tower, delicious French bread and... tropical rainforests? Sacrebleu! It seems unlikely, but scientists have discovered evidence that France may have been a hot, wet tropical ...
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Ferns took to the trees and thrived
(PhysOrg.com) -- As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a disappointment.
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Australia's climate: Drought and flooding in annual rings of tropical trees
Annual rings are acclaimed in representing natural climate archives. For the temperate latitudes it is known that the growth of these annual rings depend mainly on temperature and precipitation. In the tropics, however, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Reserves found to be 'effective tool' for reducing fires in Brazilian rainforests
Rainforest reserves - even those disturbed by roads - provide an important buffer against fires that are devastating parts of the Brazilian Amazon, according to a new study by a trio of researchers at Duke University published ...
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Study reveals potential to amass more carbon in eastern North American forests
With climate change looming, the hunt for places that can soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is on.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Tropical forest seed banks: A blast from the past
Seeds of some tree species in the Panamanian tropical forest can survive for more than 30 years before germinating. That is 10 times longer than most field botanists had believed.
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Amazonian amphibian diversity traced to Andes
Colorful poison frogs in the Amazon owe their great diversity to ancestors that leapt into the region from the Andes Mountains several times during the last 10 million years, a new study from The University ...
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Amazon carbon sink threatened by drought
The Amazon is surprisingly sensitive to drought, according to new research conducted throughout the world's largest tropical forest. The 30-year study, published today in Science, provides the first solid evidence that d ...
Mar 05, 2009 |
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One-fifth of fossil-fuel emissions absorbed by threatened forests
An international team of scientists have discovered that rainforest trees are getting bigger. They are storing more carbon from the atmosphere in their trunks, which has significantly reduced the rate of climate change.
Feb 18, 2009 |
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