News tagged with broadleaf trees

Rubber plantations could have 'devastating' impact in Asia

The expansion of rubber plantations in southeast Asia could have a "devastating" environmental impact, scientists warned Thursday as they pressed for a substantial increase in forest preserves.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 4




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Bacterial plasmids -- the freeloading and the heavy-lifters -- balance the high price of disease

Studying self-replicating genetic units, called plasmids, found in one of the world's widest-ranging pathogenic soil bacteria -- the crown-gall-disease-causing microorganism Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Ind ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Will global climate change enhance boreal forest growth?

With an increasingly warmer climate, there is a trend for springs to arrive earlier and summers to be hotter. Since spring and summer are the prime growing seasons for plants—when flowers bloom and trees ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

MU researcher works to save one of the world's most endangered birds

The Tuamotu Kingfisher is a multicolored, tropical bird with bright blue feathers, a dusty orange head, and a bright green back. The entire population of these birds – less than 125 – lives on one ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Climate change's impact on Arctic regions by 2099: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine the vast, empty tundra in Alaska and Canada giving way to trees, shrubs and plants typical of more southerly climates. Imagine similar changes in large parts of Eastern Europe, northern ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (13) | comments 76 | with audio podcast

Shrinking tundra, advancing forests: How the Arctic will look by century's end

Imagine the vast, empty tundra in Alaska and Canada giving way to trees, shrubs and plants typical of more southerly climates. Imagine similar changes in large parts of Eastern Europe, northern Asia and Scandinavia, as needle-leaf ...

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created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Huge amber deposit discovered in India

Bees, termites, spiders, and flies entombed in a newly-excavated amber deposit are challenging the assumption that India was an isolated island-continent in the Early Eocene, or 52-50 million years ago. Arthropods ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (33) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Global tropical forests threatened by 2100

By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to a new study led by Greg Asner at the Carnegie Institution's ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

First-of-its-kind map details the height of the globe's forests

Using satellite data, scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map that details the height of the world's forests. Although there are other local- and regional-scale forest canopy maps, the new map is ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Organic weed control for dandelions

Spring and summer often find homeowners out in their yards, busily attempting to control the onslaught of dandelions in a quest for green, weed-free lawns. Dandelions, broadleaf perennial plants that have a questionable reputation ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Global warming linked to European viral epidemic

An epidemic of the viral disease nephropathia epidemica (NE) has been linked to increases in the vole population caused by hotter summers, milder winters and increased seedcrop production by broadleaf trees. Research published ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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