Campaigns to plant huge numbers of trees could backfire, according to a new study that is the first to rigorously analyze the potential effects of subsidies in such schemes.
Earth Sciences
Jun 22, 2020
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A University of Wyoming researcher led a study of great gray owls in a four-state region, showing that range discontinuity could lead to genetic drift and subsequent loss of genetic diversity in these birds.
Ecology
Jun 3, 2020
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A new species proposed to be classified as Critically Endangered of miniaturised stump-toed frog of the genus Stumpffia, found in Madagascar, is named Stumpffia froschaueri after "the man from the floodplain full of frogs", ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2020
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A group of 59 international scientists, led by researchers at Canada's McMaster University, has uncovered new information about the distinct effects of climate change on boreal forests and peatlands, which threaten to worsen ...
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2020
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Human-caused increases in gaseous nitrogen (N) emissions to the atmosphere have accelerated terrestrial ecosystem N deposition over the past half-century. As forest productivity is usually N limited, accelerated N deposition ...
Environment
Apr 7, 2020
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We all know that habitat loss is pushing many species to the brink of extinction, with the conversion of forests for agricultural use a particular problem.
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2020
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Research conducted in recent decades has shown how the destruction of forests brings about a decline in species diversity. A research group in Brazil led by scientists at São Paulo State University (UNESP) has now reported ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2020
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The drought in eastern Australia was a significant driver of this season's unprecedented bushfires. But it also caused another, less well known environmental calamity this summer: entire hillsides of trees turned from green ...
Environment
Mar 9, 2020
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At high species richness, directed loss, but not random loss, of tree species strongly decreases forest productivity. This is shown by data from a big forest project in China in which the University of Zurich is involved. ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 2, 2020
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For the past 25 years, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection have been diligently collecting water samples each month in Long Island Sound (LIS). Recently, ...
Environment
Feb 5, 2020
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