Cities around the world are on the front line of climate change, and calls are growing for more urban cooling. Many governments are spending big on new trees in public places—but which species are most likely to thrive ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2022
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Recent news stories told of the Lummi Nation, west of Bellingham, describing a tiny, invasive crab—about 3 inches across the shell—as an "environmental disaster" and "one of the most destructive" aquatic creatures in ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2022
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Tree growth is an important part of forest dynamics, the symbiosis between trees and mycorrhizal fungi (e.g., arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM), ectomycorrhizal (EM) and dual-mycorrhizal (AEM)) can improve species ability to absorb ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 28, 2021
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A recent study in Science Advances shows that extreme weather conditions affect species-rich forests less than forests with fewer species. In addition, species-rich forests also produce more wood—largely due to the diversity ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2021
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Scientists have completed the sequences for the coast redwood and giant sequoia genomes. The research, officially published this week in the journal G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, helps to better explain the genetic basis ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2021
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When biology student Mike Groenhof was making a phylogenetic tree of fifty shrimp species for his internship, one specimen turned out to be an undescribed species. The animal was collected by Naturalis scientist 18 years ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2021
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If you celebrate Christmas, chances are you are planning to decorate a tree (or have already). But how do you make an informed and environment-friendly choice? Environmental impact is a complex question for any product, and ...
Ecology
Dec 8, 2021
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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and collaborators confirmed the presence of a newly described Eriophyid mite, a potential biological control agent for the invasive ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 1, 2021
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In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for thousands of years. Found ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 24, 2021
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The Department of Agronomy at the University of Córdoba leads an international study in which the different species of the pathogen are being understood thanks to samples collected over the course of 25 years.
Ecology
Nov 22, 2021
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