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Danger lurks underground for oak seedlings

Scientists trying to understand why oaks are starting to disappear from North American forests may need to look just below the surface to find some answers.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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New website shares information about deadly tree pathogens

Sudden oak death, Port-Orford-cedar root disease and other deadly tree diseases caused by Phytophthora species (pronounced fy-TOF-ther-uhs) are threatening forest ecosystems worldwide. These microorganisms, which are relate ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Leonardo da Vinci's tree rule may be explained by wind

(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci observed a particular relationship between the size of a tree’s trunk and the size of its branches. Specifically, the combined cross-sectional ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 16 | with audio podcast feature

Research reveals aquatic bacteria more recent move to land

Research by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, faculty has discovered that bacteria's move from sea to land may have occurred much later than thought. It also has revealed that the bacteria may be especially useful in bioenergy ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Global warming threatens France's precious truffle

Truffle farmers have never had to worry about demand. It is the supply side that is worrying, with global warming an ever more present threats to their success.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Planting depth's effect on container-grown trees

Many landscape trees are started in-ground, then sold as bare-root ''liners'' to producers who plant them in large containers to grow. To minimize wind damage and to facilitate transport from potting areas ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Woods, yes, but as before, no

Though the transformation of farm fields into forests over the past century amounts to a New England conservation victory, a Harvard forest expert said Thursday that turning back the environmental clock and ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Method of studying roots rarely used in wetlands improves ecosystem research

A method of monitoring roots rarely used in wetlands will help Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers effectively study the response of a high-carbon ecosystem to elevated temperatures and levels of carbon ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Up-and-coming forests will remain important carbon sinks

(PhysOrg.com) -- The aging forests of the Upper Great Lakes could be considered the baby boomers of the region's ecosystem.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plant thought extinct is still hanging on

The Franciscan manzanita - described by some as San Francisco's unicorn - thrives in a kind of botanical witness protection program.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For the love of trees: Book tells all about forest hydrology, biogeochemistry

Delphis (Del) Levia, associate professor of geography at the University of Delaware, has always loved trees. Growing up on his parents' 93-acre farm in central Massachusetts, he and his brothers and sisters ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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