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Online Encyclopedia of Life reaches 150,000 species
Aug 25, 2009 |
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The public and scientists have helped create the first 150,000 species pages in the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the global online project to create a page for each of the 1.8 million known species on the planet.
Flora not flourishing in world's hotspots
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Dec 10, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Calgary have found the biodiversity picture in the region known as the "lungs of the Earth" contradicts commonly held views relating to extinction in that area.
Effects of climate change vary greatly across plant families
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists at Harvard University have found that different plant families near Walden Pond have borne the effects of climate change in strikingly different ...
Climate change opens new avenue for spread of invasive plants
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Nov 19, 2008 |
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Plants that range northward because of climate change may be better at defending themselves against local enemies than native plants.
Plants take a hike as temperatures rise
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Plants are flowering at higher elevations in Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains as summer temperatures rise, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
Thousands of plant species likely to go extinct in Amazon
Jul 09, 2009 |
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As many as 4,550 of the more than 50,000 plant species in the Amazon will likely disappear because of land-use changes and habitat loss within the next 40 years, according to a new study by two Wake Forest University researchers.
Beneficial plant 'spillover' effect seen from landscape corridors
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a North Carolina State University biologist and colleagues shows that using landscape corridors, the "superhighways" that connect isolated patches of habitat, to protect certain plants has a large ...
Cracking the species code for plants
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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A recent article published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society searches for one or more short pieces of DNA code that could eventually be used in an automated fashion to reliably identify almost all land plant ...
Global warming increasing the dispersal of flora in Northern forests
Jun 11, 2009 |
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As a result of stronger winds caused by global warming, seeds and pollen are being carried over longer distances. An increase in temperature of only a couple of degrees may increase the dispersal of plants in Northern forests ...
Climate change threatens one in five plant species
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Aug 13, 2008 |
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Climate change alters growing conditions in many regions of the world. How global warming could affect Germany’s flora researchers have now simulated using computer models.
Protea plants help unlock secrets of species 'hotspots'
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Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New species of flowering plants called proteas are exploding onto the scene three times faster in parts of Australia and South Africa than anywhere else in the world, creating exceptional ...
Exotic plant species are more widespread than native on Boston Harbor Islands
May 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent findings by a team of Northeastern University ecologists studying plant life on the Boston Harbor Islands may advance societal efforts to stem the damage caused by invading exotic ...
Invasive plants challenge scientists in face of environmental change
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Managing invasive plant species on the Great Plains has become more challenging in recent years in the face of human-caused environmental change, including the positive responses of invaders to altered atmospheric chemistry ...
Records dating back to Thoreau show some sharp shifts in plant flowering near Walden Pond
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists at Harvard University have found that different plant families near Walden Pond in Concord, Mass., have borne the effects ...
Researchers identify a process that regulates seed germination
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Purdue University researchers have determined a process that regulates activity of genes that control seed germination and seedling development.
