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Study explores effects of herbicide drift on white oak

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Herbicide drift, which occurs when pesticides "drift" from the targeted application area to a nearby non-targeted area, is a particular concern in Midwestern regions of the United States. In the Midwest, where the topography ...


Danger lurks underground for oak seedlings

Danger lurks underground for oak seedlings

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

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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New guide to tropical seedlings: Essential to climate change research

New guide to tropical seedlings: Essential to climate change research

Biology / Other

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The enormous trees forming rainforest canopies bear little resemblance to their seedlings, many described for the first time in the new field guide, "Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics," ...


Small rodents encourage the formation of scrubland in Spain

Small rodents encourage the formation of scrubland in Spain

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


Window of opportunity for restoring oaks small, new study finds

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created May 14, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Communities of Oregon white oak were once widespread in the Pacific Northwest’s western lowlands, but, today, they are in decline. Fire suppression, conifer and invasive plant encroachment, and land use change have resulted ...


New Southern California beetle killing oaks

Biology / Ecology

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

U.S. Forest Service scientists have completed a study on a beetle that was first detected in California in 2004, but has now attacked 67 percent of the oak trees in an area 30 miles east of San Diego.


Clever irrigation could save dying river red gums

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 14, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dying river red gums along the River Murray in South Australia could be saved with clever irrigation technology, according to University of Adelaide researcher Anne Jensen.


Montana State professor hopes to help high elevation pines grow

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Thread-like fungi that grow in soils at high elevations may play an important role in restoring whitebark and limber pine forests in Canada. Montana State University professor Cathy Cripps is looking for ways to use fungi ...


Sequence matters in droughts and floods

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created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

When extremes of drought and flood come in rapid succession, the extent of damage to vegetation may depend in part on the sequence of those events, according to a new study published in The American Naturalist.


Advance in 'nano-agriculture': Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth

Advance in 'nano-agriculture': Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

With potential adverse health and environmental effects often in the news about nanotechnology, scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could have beneficial effects in agriculture.


U.S. ITER awards contracts worth $33 million for materials for ITER's largest magnets

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(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, ...


This photos shows rice growing from bio-engineered soil aimed at enhancing its productivity at a trade show in July 2009

Taiwan scientists identify flood-tolerant gene in rice

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A Taiwanese scientist has said her research team has found the gene that allows rice to grow under water and believes the breakthrough could help develop other flood-resistant crops.



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