All Articles Tagged As: plants
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 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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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