Increasing the amounts of deadwood in protected forests would help conserve biodiversity, according to a new University of Alberta review.
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2019
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A new model quantifies how forest change affects local surface temperatures by altering sunlight-reflection and evapotranspiration properties, and predicts that Brazilian deforestation could result in a 1.45°C increase by ...
Environment
Mar 20, 2019
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The iconic evergreen forests of the Pacific Northwest haven't always been here.
Archaeology
Feb 15, 2019
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A warmer, drier climate is expected is increase the likelihood of larger-scale forest disturbances such as wildfires, insect outbreaks, disease and drought, according to a new study co-authored by a Portland State University ...
Environment
Nov 8, 2018
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Actively managed conifer forests may also provide important habitat for the pollinators that aid the reproduction of food crops and other flowering plants around the globe.
Ecology
Nov 1, 2018
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Japanese researchers investigated whether a dominant tree of warm temperate broadleaved forests in Japan, Castanopsis sieboldii, underwent northward migration over hundreds of kilometres from Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) (about ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 1, 2018
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The top 1% of the forest has been sharing some vital information with researchers. Ninety-eight scientists and thousands of field staff have concluded the largest study undertaken to date with the Smithsonian Forest Global ...
Environment
May 8, 2018
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The global warming process may be even more intense than originally forecast unless deforestation can be halted, especially in the tropical regions. This warning has been published in Nature Communications by an international ...
Environment
Mar 7, 2018
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Why is a banana leaf a million times bigger than a common heather leaf? And why are leaves generally much larger in tropical jungles than in temperate forests and deserts?
Environment
Sep 1, 2017
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If aliens sent an exploratory mission to Earth, one of the first things they'd notice—after the fluffy white clouds and blue oceans of our water world—would be the way vegetation grades from exuberance at the equator ...
Ecology
Jun 29, 2017
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