News tagged with landscape
Physics Model Determines Dynamics of Friends and Enemies
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes friends can become enemies and enemies become friends, and it’s difficult to understand exactly how or why the changes took place. A new study shows that when the shifting of alliances ...
Biologists save fish after landslide
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.
After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground ...
Scientists prepare for large-scale glacial floods (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Surging floods as powerful as the Amazon could hit parts of Europe within decades, according to new research.
Two-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 21, 2009 |
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In an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on October 21, 2009, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution Nation ...
Nitrogen mysteries in urban grasslands
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Urban grasslands are an extremely common, but poorly studied ecosystem type. Many receive high rates of fertilizer, creating concerns about nutrient runoff and greenhouse gas emissions. Recent research has been focused on ...
Via Tiburtina -- an interdisciplinary journey through Rome's urban landscape
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Via Tiburtina is the name of the ancient road that is still in use, connecting Rome with the town of Tivoli. Architect Hans Bjur, a professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and professor Barbro Santillo ...
Egg-shaped legacy of Britain's mobile ice-sheet
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The ice sheets that sculpted the landscape of northern Britain moved in unexpected ways and left distinctive egg-shaped features according to new research.
Study predicts an uncertain future for forests
Sep 15, 2009 |
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The composition of some of our nation's forests may be quite different 200 to 400 years from today according to a recent study at the University of Illinois. The study found that temperature and photosynthetic active radiation ...
Research aims to cool runoff to protect coldwater streams
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The ocean of stormwater that flows off of the sun-baked urban landscape is packing heat, and trout are starting to feel it.
Bumblebees dive in to fill a void
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Native pollinators such as these fat, fuzzy bumblebees, once an overlooked sideshow in the insect world, are gaining widespread appreciation among everyone from backyard gardeners to big-time farmers. That's because European ...
Research recommends compromise when choosing conservation site
Sep 02, 2009 |
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A lot of variables come into play when selecting a site for environmental conservation that yields benefits to people nearby such as wildlife needs, species and vegetation uniqueness, and costs to the government or community. ...
Glass-walled buildings can mean death for birds, killing 1 to 5 percent of them a year
Aug 07, 2009 |
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The front of Temple University's student center is an almost seamless wall of glass, reflecting trees and sky in lifelike detail and adding visual appeal to the urban landscape.
Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Scientists are comparing annual growth rings of the Pacific Northwest's largest bivalve and its most iconic tree for clues to how living organisms may have responded to changes in climate.
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 ...
