News tagged with oak roots
Danger lurks underground for oak seedlings
Mar 03, 2009 |
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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.
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Forest response project FACEs the end
Jul 28, 2009 |
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After 12 years, an experiment focused on forest growth and climate change comes to an end, and researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are eager to collect and analyze data to see if their predictions match results.
Newly discovered snow roots are 'evolutionary phenomenon'
Jun 12, 2009 |
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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 ...
Urban trees enhance water infiltration
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Global land use patterns and increasing pressures on water resources demand creative urban stormwater management. Traditional stormwater management focuses on regulating the flow of runoff to waterways, but generally does ...
Case Western Reserve University biologists suspect lightning fires help preserve oak forests
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Dec 13, 2006 |
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Oak forests may be approaching extinction, but lightning fires may play a vital role in their regeneration, according to Case Western Reserve University biologists.
When roots lose contact
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Plant roots can shrink as a result of water deficit and lose contact with the surrounding soil. This effect has been suspected for a long time, but has only now been demonstrated for a fact with the help of ...
Small rodents encourage the formation of scrubland in Spain
Aug 27, 2009 |
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After two years of research over five degraded landscapes in the National Park of Sierra Nevada (Granada), scientists have established for the first time that field mice base their diet on holm oak and pine ...
Live Oak Trees Struggle for Survival in Growth Areas
Sep 28, 2006 |
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The majestic live oak is losing its battle for survival to suburban sprawl and the encroachment of taller trees, a new University of Florida study finds.
U.S. ITER awards contracts worth $33 million for materials for ITER's largest magnets
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded two contracts totaling $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand for the Toroidal Field Conductor, ...
Heavy metals accumulate more in some mushrooms than in others
Oct 30, 2009 |
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A research team from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has analysed the presence of heavy metals in 12 species of mushroom collected from non-contaminated natural areas, and has found that the levels ...
Rhododendron expansion may increase the chance of landslides on Southern Appalachian slopes
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests that the expansion of rosebay rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) in Southern Appalachian mountain hollows may in ...
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