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Tree species composition influences nitrogen loss from forests
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Throughout the world, nitrogen compounds are released to the atmosphere from agricultural activities and combustion of fossil fuels. These pollutants are deposited to ecosystems as precipitation, gases, and particles, sometimes ...
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Researchers develop new platinum-based anti-tumor compound
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at Wake Forest University in collaboration with colleagues at the Wake Forest University Health Sciences Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new class of platinum-based ...
Using Lasers to Map Bird Habitat
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lasers are providing scientists with new tools for mapping, protecting, and restoring bird habitat along rivers. In a paper published in the October issue of Ecological Applications, scientists from PRBO C ...
Breakthrough in monitoring tropical deforestation announced in Copenhagen
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Tropical forest destruction accounts for some 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But quantifying these emissions has not been easy, particularly for tropical nations. New technology, developed by a team ...
Forest Service Web-based tool helps manage environmental risk
Sep 25, 2009 |
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The U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) recently launched the Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools (CRAFT), a user-friendly, Web-based support system that helps natural ...
Timber harvest impacts amphibians differently during life stages
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Frogs are croaking in clear-cut forests, but not exactly in their traditional manner. University of Missouri researchers found that removing all of the trees from a section of the forest had a negative effect ...
New research shows versatility of amniotic fluid stem cells
Nov 23, 2009 |
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For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that stem cells found in amniotic fluid meet an important test of potential to become specialized cell types, which suggests they may be useful for treating a wider array of ...
Model predicts evolution of Mediterranean landscape following fires
Jul 30, 2009 |
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An international research team has developed a mathematical and cartographical model that make it possible to view how Mediterranean landscapes evolve in the aftermath of forest fires. In order to carry out ...
Tropical forests affected by habitat fragmentation store less biomass and carbon dioxide
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Deforestation in tropical rain forests could have an even greater impact on climate change than has previously been thought. The combined biomass of a large number of small forest fragments left over after ...
Moths mimic sounds to survive
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May 31, 2007 |
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In a night sky filled with hungry bats, good-tasting moths increase their chances of survival by mimicking the sounds of their bad-tasting cousins, according to a new Wake Forest University study.
Incentives for carbon sequestration may not protect species
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Paying rural landowners in Oregon's Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won't necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has ...
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