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All Articles Tagged As: ants
 | Studies on some Himalayan ginger flowers have contributed novel empirical evidence to Darwin's self-pollination theory ...> Full Article |
Plants with rapid reproductive cycles evolve faster
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 | Discovery may help scientists better understand air quality, farm crops ...> Full Article |
 | A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest is likely a descendant of the very first ants to evolve. ...> Full Article |
 | Comparing anti-fungals produced by tobacco and henbane, researchers discovered that only a few mutations in a key enzyme are enough to shift the whole output to an entirely new product mixture. ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers trying to determine whether nature or nurture determines an ant's status in the colony have found a surprising answer ...> Full Article |
 | The spiciness is a defense mechanism that some peppers develop to suppress a microbial fungus that invades through punctures made in the outer skin by insects ...> Full Article |
 | Common tree species in the Amazon will survive even grim scenarios of deforestation and road-building, but rare trees could suffer extinction rates of up to 50 percent ...> Full Article |
 | Recent study suggests experience of old matriarchs may help herds survive in age of climate change ...> Full Article |
 | African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989 ...> Full Article |
 | As the predators evolve new strategies for attack, plants counter with their own unique defenses. ...> Full Article |
 | Ice age climate change and ancient flooding - but not barriers created by rivers - may have promoted the evolution of new insect species in the Amazon region of South America, a new study suggests. ...> Full Article |
Rising demand for palm oil will decimate biodiversity unless producers and politicians can work together to preserve as much remaining natural forest as possible, ecologists have warned
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 | Plants existing at the edges of their natural habitats may enhance survival of the species during global warming ...> Full Article |
Research explains the recent dramatic decline in certain bumblebee species found in the shrinking areas of species-rich chalk grasslands and hay meadows across Northern Europe
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 | Lodgepole pine forests have characteristics that could lead to large bark beetle outbreaks in the western U.S. ...> Full Article |
 | Communication between subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects ...> Full Article |
 | The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race - accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago ...> Full Article |
 | The world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time. ...> Full Article |
 | New study shows the age of victims determines how fire ants respond to aggressors ...> Full Article |
 | Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising at an alarming rate, and new research indicates that soybean plant defenses go down as CO2 goes up. Elevated CO2 impairs a key component of the plant's defenses against leaf-eating insects ...> Full Article |
 | Far from being a model of social co-operation, the ant world is riddled with cheating and corruption - and it goes all the way to the top ...> Full Article |
 | Some of the smallest plants on the planet may play a vital role in some of the largest questions facing mankind today, according to marine scientists at the University of Portsmouth and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS). ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists find physical and genetic reasons for various juniper species' drought-resistance ...> Full Article |
 | The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries. With the deposits ranging from unique varieties of major African and Asian food staples such as maize, rice, wheat, cowpea, and sorghum to European and South American varieties of eggplant, lettuce, barley, and potato, the first deposits into the seed vault represent the most comprehensive and diverse collection of food crop seeds being held anywhere in the world. ...> Full Article |
Impact of nitrogen on natural ecosystems could influence climate change
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 | Ever since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality-a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature-scientists have been applying its concepts to everything from economics to avalanches. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists have made the first step in defining the structure of communication channels between plant cells ...> Full Article |
 | researchers in Africa have a riveting tale of natural balance gone bad, with an unhappy moral for other ecosystems: This could happen to you. ...> Full Article |
 | Low-temperature stress is a chief environment factor that hinders plant growth, development as well as its geographic distribution and yield. Cell membrane is the major part of a plant where the harm takes place and the molecular changes in the membrane and membrane lipid are one of the initial signals in plant adaptation to and survival after freezing. ...> Full Article |
 | A gigantic palm that flowers itself to death has been discovered in Madagascar. This previously unknown genus is entirely new to science and has been named Tahina spectabilis in the latest issue of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, which is Malagasy for "blessed" or "to be protected", and is also one of the given names of Anne-Tahina Metz, the daughter of the discoverer of the palm. ...> Full Article |
 | A newly discovered parasite so dramatically transforms its host, an ant, that the ant comes to resemble a juicy red berry, ripe for picking, according to a report accepted for publication in The American Naturalist. This is the first example of fruit mimicry caused by a parasite, the co-authors say. ...> Full Article |
 | Throughout the tropics, ants and Acacia trees live together in intricate interdependent relationships that have long fascinated scientists. ...> Full Article |
 | Imagine a lamb at its first pasture potluck, and you'll see how Montana lambs are learning to eat a noxious weed called Dalmatian toadflax. ...> Full Article |
 | When resources are scarce, who you know and where you're positioned on the social totem pole affects how far you'll go to search for food. At least that's the case with African elephants, according to a study led by ecologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who collaborated with researchers at Save the Elephants, a non-profit research organization based in Kenya, and at the University of Oxford in England. ...> Full Article |
 | Elephants can tell whether a human is a friend or foe by their scent and colour of clothing. ...> Full Article |
 | Strategically placed beehives might offer a natural elephant deterrent in areas where humans are encroaching on elephant ranges, according to Oxford University scientists. ...> Full Article |
 | World Wildlife Fund scientists have just announced the discovery of 11 new animal and plant species in a remote area in central Vietnam. They say this underscores the importance of conservation efforts in the ancient tropical forests of the region. ...> Full Article |
 | Important Implications for Biodiversity, Climate Change ...> Full Article |
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