A new study suggests that overgrazing and other factors increase the severity of cheatgrass invasion in sagebrush steppe, one of North America's most endangered ecosystems.
Ecology
May 13, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Researchers working to increase the number of bridled nailtail wallabies in Queensland Australia, have discovered that stopping the practice of culling dingoes in the area did not change the number of feral cats ...
For much of the year drought has been plaguing American grasslands. But a recent study found that grasses do not appear to be losing the turf war against climate when it comes to surviving with little precipitation.
Environment
Aug 8, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) have provided the first evidence that engineered nanoparticles are able to accumulate ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 18, 2012
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The people of medieval Iceland survived disaster by sticking with traditional practices, an innovative new study suggests.
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2012
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In a study of the harsh but beautiful White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain dune patterns. The new work represents a contribution ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2012
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Whatever does not kill a plant may actually make it stronger. After being partially eaten by grazing animals, for example, some plants grow bigger and faster and reproduce more successfully than they otherwise would. In a ...
Biotechnology
Aug 1, 2011
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Researchers are proposing in a new report that a major experiment be conducted to reintroduce wolves to a test site in the Scottish Highlands, to help control the populations and behavior of red deer that in the past 250 ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2009
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As the U.S. Southwest grew warmer from 18,700 to 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what is now the Mojave Desert, robbing packrats of their favorite food. Now, University of Utah biologists have narrowed the hunt ...
Ecology
Apr 6, 2009
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A six-year-old project to return giant tortoises to the wild in Madagascar could result in thousands of the 350kg megaherbivores re-populating the island for the first time in 600 years.
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2024
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