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It's not easy being a street tree, but this heroic eucalypt withstands everything we throw at it
Street trees usually grow in appalling soils, have little space for their roots, are rarely watered and often get aggressively trimmed by road authorities or utility companies.
Plants & Animals
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How do diverse plants get sick in the wild? Researchers head outdoors to answer a blue-sky question
The life of a plant scientist involves long hours in the lab, thinking up, designing, and monitoring experiments that might tell us something new about how life works. But sometimes it helps to log off the computer, hang ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2025
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Long-term studies at Jasper Ridge yield insights into oak ecosystems
Sitting atop the land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, located on the eastern hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains and about five miles southwest of Stanford University's main campus, is one of its most beautiful classrooms: Jasper ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2025
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California announces plans to relax protections for wolves as population grows
In the latest sign that wolves are continuing to make a comeback across California after being hunted out of existence for nearly a century, state wildlife officials have announced that population numbers have increased enough ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2025
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Picky eaters by day, buffet by night: Butterfly and moth diets sync to plant aromas
The scent of blooming flowers and fresh plant life is not just a perk of springtime; it is a key driver in the survival and evolution of butterflies and moths. New research led by scientists at Penn State reveals how the ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2025
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Bonobos create phrases in similar ways to humans, new study suggests
Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into sentences. This is thanks to compositionality: the ability to combine meaningful units into larger ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2025
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The race to save the Amazon's bushy-bearded monkeys
One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon.
Ecology
Apr 4, 2025
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Prey size plays surprising role in competition among wolves, bears and cougars
New research from the University of Minnesota upends long-held understanding about how wolves, bears and cougars—three of Yellowstone National Park's most iconic carnivores—compete for prey.
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2025
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European catfish has prolonged breeding season, enhancing its invasive potential
The European catfish is the largest freshwater fish in Europe, reaching up to 2.8 meters in length and 130 kg in weight. It was first detected in Portugal in 2014. As a top predator, it has no natural enemies and exhibits ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2025
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Animal behavioral diversity at risk in the face of declining biodiversity
Our environment is changing rapidly, largely as a result of human activities, leading to a significant decline in biodiversity. According to researchers from the University of Victoria and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2025
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Some insects are declining, but what's happening to the other 99%?
Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and recycling services but, despite concerns about population declines, little is known about how 99% of species ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2025
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Timid tinkerers: Shy mice are more persistent problem-solvers, study finds
Why do some animals solve problems while others don't? The new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, now featured on the cover of Oikos, tackles this question with an unexpected star: the wild house ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2025
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Flies are masters of migration—it's about time they got some credit
As I sprinted across the flower-rich meadow on the eastern coast of Cyprus, I could barely see my car. The air was full of tiny black dots, pelting like bullets past me. I hauled open the car door and breathed a sigh of relief ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2025
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Study reveals that migrating roach fish have sharper eyesight
Roach fish that migrate between different lakes and water courses have larger pupils and better eyesight than roach that stay in one place. The adaptation makes it easier for the red-eyed freshwater migrants to find food ...
Evolution
Apr 3, 2025
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Researchers warn of the overlap between offshore wind farms and areas of high biodiversity
A predictive model suggests that seabirds and marine mammals forage in the same areas where wind potential is most significant and that their populations may be at risk if wind farms are built there.
Ecology
Apr 3, 2025
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Cover crops provide an often-overlooked reduction in soil carbon erosion, study finds
Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, a factor that's underestimated in considering the carbon sequestration potential ...
Ecology
Apr 3, 2025
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Vanishing fish, shrinking catches: How overfishing is undermining coastal fisheries
New science shows that overfishing is eroding the sustainability of tropical coral reef fisheries in East Africa, with small-scale fishers losing out on fisheries' productivity as entire species disappear from their catch.
Ecology
Apr 3, 2025
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Stronger together: Bilby conservation efforts enhanced by Indigenous knowledge
One of the nation's most iconic and at-risk critters could benefit by combining Indigenous knowledge with western survey methods, according to a new study led by Charles Darwin University (CDU) in collaboration with the North ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2025
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Corpse flowers' survival at risk due to spotty recordkeeping
Commonly called the "corpse flower," Amorphophallus titanum is endangered for many reasons, including habitat destruction, climate change and encroachment from invasive species.
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2025
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Monkeys are world's best yodelers, 'voice breaks' analysis finds
A new study has found that the world's finest yodelers aren't from Austria or Switzerland, but the rainforests of Latin America.
Plants & Animals
Apr 2, 2025
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