Can cities make room for woodpeckers?
Researchers are deploying the latest mapping techniques to identify the most important suburban habitat for North America's largest woodpecker.
Ecology
Mar 31, 2023
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News tagged with canopy
Researchers provide global synthesis of multiple factors affecting forest ecosystem water storage capacity
Water storage capacity of the forest ecosystem refers to the precipitation that can be intercepted and stored by the forest canopy, litter, and soil layers, accounting for more than 25% of the terrestrial water cycle.
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2023
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Habitat will dictate whether ground beetles win or lose against climate change, finds study
The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web—ground beetles. Nearly 2,000 species of ground beetle live in North America. New research ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2023
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Study provides insights into interspecific variations of herbivory in tropical forests
Factors shaping the interspecific variations in herbivory have puzzled ecologists for decades and several hypotheses have been proposed. However, we still lack a clear evaluation on the direction and relative contribution ...
Ecology
Mar 22, 2023
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Climate change threatens spring wildflowers by speeding up the time when trees leaf out above them
For short-lived spring wildflowers such as wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia) and Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria), timing is everything. These fleeting plants, known as ephemerals, grow in temperate forests around ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2023
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Expectant lemur dads see hormonal changes in response to pregnant mates, poop shows
Red-bellied lemurs are one of only a handful of mammal species in which the males are active participants in caring for their young. New University of Arizona-led research suggests that expectant lemur dads may experience ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2023
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Improving wildfire predictions with soil science
Severe wildfires have become annual events in the United States. The years 2020 and 2021 were the worst in wildfire history in California. Other states—and countries—are at risk as well. Climate change is making wildfires ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2023
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Wildfires are increasingly burning California's snowy landscapes, colliding with winter droughts to shrink snowpack
The early pandemic years overlapped with some of California's worst wildfires on record, creating haunting, orange-tinted skies and wide swaths of burned landscape. Some of the impacts of these fires are well known, including ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 1, 2023
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Uprooted trees serve as physical record for extreme wind events, finds high-res forest mapping study
Take a walk in the woods in southern Indiana and you'll likely come across an uprooted tree, its displaced roots rising above a pit of soil on the hillslopes.
Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2023
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Forests recovering from logging act as a source of carbon
A new study finds that tropical forests recovering from logging are sources of carbon for years afterward, contrary to previous assumptions.
Earth Sciences
Jan 9, 2023
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