Forests' ability to survive and adapt to the disruptions wrought by climate change may depend, in part, on the eddies and swirls of global wind currents, suggests a new study by researchers at the University of California, ...
Ecology
May 10, 2021
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Across California's Central Valley, under stress from large-scale agriculture and climate change, native bee species that are flexible in their pollination behavior when around other wild bee populations appear best suited ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 2, 2021
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Climate change is altering the world we share with all living things. But it's surprisingly difficult to single out climate change as an extinction threat for any one particular species protected under the Endangered Species ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2021
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Plant species with short generation times are more sensitive to climate change than those with long generation times. This is one of the findings of a synthesis study by researchers from the German Center for Integrative ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2021
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For the first time, scientists have assessed how many corals there are in the Pacific Ocean—and evaluated their risk of extinction.
Ecology
Mar 1, 2021
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In the last 60 years, plant diversity across Germany decreased by an average of 15% in over 70% of the more than 2000 species examined. This most comprehensive analysis of plant data from Germany ever conducted involved researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2020
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Five years ago, the United Nations committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030. Since then, however, world hunger has continued to rise. Nearly 9 percent of our global population is now ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2020
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An international study led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Prehistory at the UAB has reconstructed the diets of pre-Columbian groups on the Amazon coast of Brazil, ...
Archaeology
Oct 6, 2020
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The fundamental process that arguably forms the backbone of life on earth is photosynthesis; every organism is directly or indirectly dependent on this process. On paper, the process is simple: plants (and other organisms ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2020
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Plant scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have garnered the most comprehensive—and first ever—genetic level dataset of the rooting process in a flowering model grass, Brachypodium. It's a feat that gets ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2020
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