News tagged with mountain plants
New Zealand team finds early plant arrivers dominated landscape
(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems intuitive that not all plant species could have taken a foothold on land at the same time all those millions of years ago as conditions on Earth evolved to the point where they could survive; some ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Climate change is altering mountain vegetation at large scale, European research says
The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest since global climate has been measured, and while localized studies have shown evidence of changes in mountain plant communities that reflect this warming trend, ...
Jan 08, 2012 |
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Early lineage of Larkspur and Monkshood plants rediscovered in Southern Europe
Larkspurs, monkshoods, and aconites are plants, widely cultivated for their beauty and medicinal properties. They all belong to the Delphinieae, a natural group of 650-700 species ranging from Eurasia into ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Mountains limited spread of fallout from Fukushima
A map of radioactive contamination across Japan from the Fukushima power plant disaster confirms high levels in eastern and northeastern areas but finds much lower levels in the western part of the country, thanks to mountain ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Tolerant species more upwardly mobile
Only a few invasive plant species succeed in mountain regions. A team including ETH ecologists have now explained, with a rule that applies all over the world, why some exotics are more successful than others ...
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Islands in the sky: How isolated are mountain top plant populations?
Do mountain tops act as sky islands for species that live at high elevations? Are plant populations on these mountain tops isolated from one another because the valleys between them act as barriers, or can ...
Jan 21, 2011 |
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Changing climate could alter meadows' ecosystems, researcher says
Changing climate could affect the diversity of plants and animals, and we can get a glimpse of what this may look like by studying the effects of drought in a relatively pristine ecosystem, according to an ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Plants discover the benefits of good neighbors in strategy against herbivores
Scandinavian Scientists have discovered that a species of tree defends itself from herbivore attack by using chemicals emitted by neighbouring plants. The study, published today in New Phytologist, reveals how a species of bir ...
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Aspen's 'dandelion' habits challenge mountain evergreens
(PhysOrg.com) -- The face of high-elevation evergreen forests in Western Canada could be drastically altered as a combination of climate change, human and natural disturbances is making spruce and pine forests ...
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Mountain plants unable to withstand invasion
An international research team has studied the distribution of plant species in mountainous environments. The study shows that mountain plant communities are not particularly resistant to invasion by exotic ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Desert Dust Alters Ecology of Colorado Alpine Meadows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Accelerated snowmelt--precipitated by desert dust blowing into the mountains--changes how alpine plants respond to seasonal climate cues that regulate their life cycles, according to results ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Newly discovered snow roots are 'evolutionary phenomenon'
It may not be the Yeti, but in a remote region of the Russian mountains a previously unknown and entirely unique form of plant root has been discovered. Lead Scientist Professor Hans Cornelissen and his Russian-Dutch team ...
Jun 12, 2009 |
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