A study published in Biodiversity and Conservation which involved the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has conducted a comparative analysis, for the first time, of ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2024
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In an article published in the journal Flora, researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil examine some of the strategies developed over eons of evolution by plants in the Cerrado, Brazil's savanna-like biome, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2023
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Every so often, cicadas emerge above ground and blanket the Earth with their exoskeletons while emitting a high-pitched chirp from sunrise to sunset. The periodical cicadas in the genus Magicicada come every 13 or 17 years, ...
Ecology
Oct 18, 2023
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Woody plants are unusually common on oceanic islands. Scientists at the University of Bayreuth, together with research partners in Italy, Great Britain, Norway and Spain, have now discovered a new explanation for this phenomenon: ...
Evolution
Aug 16, 2023
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Farmland birds have a positive impact on woody crops but are more likely to negatively impact the yield of herbaceous crops, according to a study published in the open access journal PLOS Biology by Cheng Huang from Sun Yat-sen ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2023
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The rapid loss of variation within species is a hidden biodiversity crisis, according to the authors of a new study looking at how this variation supports essential ecological functions and the benefits nature provides for ...
Ecology
Mar 1, 2021
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A new study by botanists at the LMU shows that, in most woody plants in the northern temperate zone, leaf emergence (leaf-out) in spring is not regulated by day-length but instead by spring temperature and the cumulative ...
Environment
Oct 20, 2016
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By literally looking below the surface and digging up the dirt, Cornell researchers have discovered that a burgeoning deer population forever alters the progression of a forest's natural future by creating environmental havoc ...
Ecology
Mar 8, 2014
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(Phys.org) —The only truly practical biofuels will be those made from abundant feedstocks like switchgrass, wheat straw, and other woody plants, whose cell walls consist of lignocellulose. After pretreatment to remove or ...
Biotechnology
Jun 11, 2013
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Leaf nutrient resorption and drought resistance are critical for plant growth and survival. However, our understanding of the relationship between leaf nutrient resorption and plant drought resistance remains limited.
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2024
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