Mammal evolution in Africa, including that of modern human ancestors, through the late Cenozoic (Plio-Pleistocene, ~5.3 million years ago) may not have been driven by the expansion of grasslands as previously thought, new ...
Across the United States over the past decade, an average of over 61,000 wildfires have burned some 7.2 million acres per year. Once a wildfire starts spreading, the firefighting task is exacerbated by issues like spot fires, ...
Ecology
May 18, 2023
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To understand how plants respond to and influence their environments, ecologists often use a series of standardized measurements called functional traits. For example, a plant's capacity to do photosynthesis is influenced ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 7, 2023
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How can biodiversity be preserved while securing the economic livelihood of smallholder farmers growing vanilla in Madagascar? There is a way, according to a study by the Universities of Göttingen, Marburg and Hohenheim. ...
Ecology
Aug 11, 2022
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A trio of researchers with the Alexander Center for Applied Population Biology, Lincoln Park Zoo, has discovered some of the traits that many species of plants and animals facing extinction have in common. In their paper ...
For 25 years, Carol Augspurger visited a patch of ancient woods near Urbana to look at the same 25 one-square-meter plots of earth she first demarcated for study in 1993. She surveyed the plots once a week in spring and summer, ...
Ecology
Jun 9, 2020
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When munched by grazing animals (or mauled by scientists in the lab), some herbaceous plants overcompensate - producing more plant matter and becoming more fertile than they otherwise would. Scientists say they now know how ...
Biotechnology
Nov 11, 2014
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A new study suggests that the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park is beginning to bring back a key part of the diet of grizzly bears that has been missing for much of the past century – berries that help bears ...
Ecology
Jul 29, 2013
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Can we predict which species will be most vulnerable to climate change by studying how they responded in the past? A new study of flowering plants provides a clue. An analysis of more than 5000 plant species reveals that ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2009
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Since 2013, over 20 million olive trees in Italy have succumbed to a devastating plant disease. The same disease now threatens many more plant species, across several countries, with the same fate.
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2023
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