News tagged with grass species
Fires regenerate African grassland
Sep 20, 2008 |
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Natural grass fires are evidently more important for the ecology of savannahs than has previously been assumed. This is the finding of a study carried out in Etosha National Park in the north of Namibia. It ...
Researchers pursue grasses as Earth-friendly biofuel
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At a small site on the Batavia campus of Fermilab, ecologist Julie Jastrow of Argonne National Laboratory pushes the scientific frontier in a new and exciting way: She watches the grass grow.
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Search for salt tolerant grasses aims to improve roadside plantings
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Jul 02, 2008 |
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Standing in a greenhouse at the University of Rhode Island, Rebecca Brown was smiling even though it appeared that something had gone terribly wrong. Almost all of the 16 species of grass she planted last February in hundreds ...
Invasive grass may impede forest regeneration
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Apr 09, 2007 |
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The nonnative invasive grass Microstegium vimineum may hinder the regeneration of woody species in southern forests. Chris and Sonja Oswalt (Forest Service Southern Research Station) and Wayne Clatterbuck (University of Tennessee) ...
Woody and aquatic plants pose greatest invasive threat to China
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May 01, 2008 |
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Although China currently has fewer invasive woody plants than the United States, China’s potential for invasion by nonnative trees and shrubs is high, according to an article in the May 2008 issue of BioScience.
Assisted colonization key to species' survival in changing climate
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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Species are adapting slowly to climate change and 'assisted colonisation' can play a vital role in helping wildlife to survive in a warming world.
Wheat curl mite might require non-chemical control
Mar 31, 2009 |
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The wheat curl mite is a minute menace that wreaks havoc on the region's wheat crop; but it has no enemies currently that can take it out. That doesn't mean Texas AgriLife Research scientists aren't trying to find ways to ...
Switchgrass produces biomass efficiently
Nov 23, 2009 |
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A USDOE and USDA study concluded that 50 million U.S. acres of cropland, idle cropland, and cropland pasture could be converted from current uses to the production of perennial grasses, such as switchgrass, from which biomass ...
Conservation strategies must shift with global environmental change, says CU-Boulder study
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Sustaining and enhancing altered ecosystems has become the new mantra for conservation and restoration managers as ecosystems continue to change in response to global warming and other environmental changes, ...
Biofuels as Invasive Species?
Sep 21, 2006 |
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As the United States looks to crops as possible future sources of energy, a University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues call for caution, citing the possibility of some biofuel crops becoming invasive ...
Hayfever hope
Jun 03, 2008 |
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With the peak grass pollen season approaching, scientists can reveal that a daily dose of probiotic can change the immune status of people with hay fever.
DNA studies show 1 critically endangered grouper species is really 2
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Researchers from the University of Hawaii, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, National Marine Fisheries Service and Projecto Meros do Brazil discovered a new species ...
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