The good news: Recognizing the incredible value of forests in providing habitat, storing carbon dioxide, purifying water and more, people around the world are working to restore forests destroyed in the past by human activities ...
Environment
Sep 21, 2017
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Teak, the most valuable species for tropical reforestation, often performs poorly in the acid soils of steeply sloping land in the tropics. As human population skyrockets and land becomes a scarce resource, balancing tradeoffs ...
Ecology
Sep 1, 2017
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A healthy global debate has occurred concerning the benefits of using non-native trees for restoring some aspects of ecosystem function in degraded habitats. In many cases, the stresses associated with establishing seedlings ...
Ecology
Aug 7, 2017
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In a first-ever assessment of urban forest vulnerability to climate change in the Chicago region, a team led by the USDA Forest Service concluded that native tree species in a 7-million-acre area may decline while invasive ...
Environment
May 9, 2017
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After years of environmental destruction, China has spent billions of dollars on the world's largest reforestation program, converting a combined area nearly the size of New York and Pennsylvania back to forest.
Ecology
Sep 7, 2016
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Some ecological relationships among plants are robust and independent of geography. Expanding the validation of these relationships requires data from under-represented geographic regions and plant groups. Recent research ...
Ecology
Feb 16, 2016
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Not only do native plants do a better job of hosting and supporting local insect communities than their non-native counterparts, but a University of Delaware study shows that non-native plants are compounding the problem ...
Ecology
Sep 28, 2015
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The University of Guam has continued to expand the foundation of knowledge on the reproductive biology of native tree species with a new publication in the July issue of the national science journal HortScience.
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2015
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Guam-based research has made its way to the July issue of the national scientific journal HortScience. The work was conducted in the University of Guam's Western Pacific Tropical Research Center (WPTRC), and focused on experimentally ...
Ecology
Aug 11, 2015
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Auckland's trees have little protection against urban intensification and of those that are left, only a few are listed for preservation, a new study has found.
Ecology
Jun 8, 2015
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