Does history repeat? Using the past to improve ecological forecasting
To better predict the future, Jack Williams is looking to the past.
Ecology
Feb 20, 2012
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Page 10 - News tagged with ecological communities
Competition is at the root of diversity in rainforests: study
Another attractive theory falls foul of the facts. A census of trees in rainforests on three continents has confirmed that competition plays a central role in structuring communities. This contradicts the so-called neutral ...
Ecology
Jan 26, 2012
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Solutions for a nitrogen-soaked world
Nitrogen is both an essential nutrient and a pollutant, a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion and a fertilizer that feeds billions, a benefit and a hazard, depending on form, location, and quantity. Agriculture, industry ...
Environment
Jan 17, 2012
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Dramatic links found between climate change, elk, plants, and birds
Climate change in the form of reduced snowfall in mountains is causing powerful and cascading shifts in mountainous plant and bird communities through the increased ability of elk to stay at high elevations over winter and ...
Ecology
Jan 10, 2012
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Trees influence epiphyte and invertebrate communities
Studies in temperate regions have demonstrated that genetic differences between individual trees affect the ecological communities and ecosystem processes associated with them. Now scientists at Manchester University and ...
Ecology
Jan 5, 2012
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NASA: Climate change may bring big ecosystem changes
(PhysOrg.com) -- By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth's land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecological ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2011
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Farming crucial for threatened species in developing world
A number of threatened species in the developing world are entirely dependent on human agriculture for their survival, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Ecology
Dec 5, 2011
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Mediterranean Sea invaded by alien species
More than 900 new alien species have been encountered in the coastal environments of the eastern Mediterranean Sea in recent decades, including the poisonous pufferfish. The invasion of alien species has had the consequence ...
Ecology
May 23, 2011
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Genetic differences influence the structure of communities
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from The University of Manchester are among a group of researchers investigating how genetic differences among individuals contribute to the way ecological communities form, interact and change ...
Other
Apr 7, 2011
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New theory provides better basis for biodiversity conservation
A mathematical model that provides a more effective basis for biodiversity conservation than existing frameworks has been developed by a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Ecology
Sep 13, 2010
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