Trees in California communities are working overtime. From removing carbon dioxide and pollutants from the air, intercepting rainfall and increasing property values, California's 173.2 million city trees provide ecosystem ...
Environment
Dec 4, 2017
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Scientists are disputing the possibility that a significant portion of the world's forests have been missed in an earlier accounting of ecological diversity.
Environment
Nov 21, 2017
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Forests fulfill numerous important functions, and do so particularly well if they have a diversity of trees, according to a new study. As a second study demonstrates, forest managers do not have to decide on the provision ...
Environment
Nov 17, 2017
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Productivity and stability of forest ecosystems strongly depend on the functional diversity of plant communities. University of Zurich researchers have developed a new method to measure and map functional diversity of forests ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2017
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In Italy, firefighters across the country are battling hundreds of wildfires, the flames fanned by a combination of heat and drought.
Environment
Jul 20, 2017
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Landscapes are all around us. For years researchers have studied the way they develop and maintain themselves, but Dr. Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe wants to know how they interact with nature, specifically coastal ecosystems.
Environment
Jul 3, 2017
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Money may not grow on trees, but trees themselves and all that they provide have a dollar value nonetheless.
Ecology
Jun 28, 2017
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A major new decade-long experiment to study the impact of climate and environmental change on woodlands is launching today.
Environment
Apr 3, 2017
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Until the modern era, the human mark on the northernmost forests of North America, Europe, and Asia was light. Human populations in these challenging environments were too small to make a big impact through agriculture or ...
Environment
Mar 1, 2017
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In the global effort to mitigate carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, all options are on the table—including help from nature. Recent research suggests that healthy, intact coastal wetland ecosystems such as mangrove ...
Environment
Feb 1, 2017
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