News tagged with tree growth
Long-term study of orchard ground cover management systems
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Orchard floor and groundcover management is important to fruit growers, affecting the efficiency of orchard operations, fruit tree performance, and soil quality.
Surface-level ozone pollution set to reduce tree growth 10 percent by 2100
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Modern day concentrations of ground level ozone pollution are decreasing the growth of trees in the northern and temperate mid-latitudes, as shown in a paper publishing today in Global Change Biology. Tree growth, measur ...
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Live Christmas tree brings scent, mold
Nov 14, 2007 |
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Live Christmas trees may bring more than a fresh evergreen scent to U.S. homes during the holidays, they may bring allergy symptoms, a study showed.
Getting to the root of science in a nutty way
May 26, 2009 |
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Dr. Leo Lombardini has gone underground to get the most top secret information in his field.
Faster koa tree growth without adverse ecosystem effects
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Mar 27, 2008 |
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U.S. Forest Service scientists with the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry have completed a study on ways to make high-value koa trees grow faster, while increasing biodiversity, carbon sequestration, scenic ...
Pioneering landscape-scale research releases first findings
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 16, 2008 |
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The May issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research presents the preliminary findings of 23 scientists involved in one of the first landscape-scale experiments on how forest management affects western Ponderosa pine e ...
Tree survival skills: Stresses during handling and transport affect tree health
May 04, 2009 |
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Consider the cumulative stresses that transplanted trees must endure from the time they are harvested until they become established in a landscape. Multiple stress factors can mean the difference between survival and death ...
Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Scientists are comparing annual growth rings of the Pacific Northwest's largest bivalve and its most iconic tree for clues to how living organisms may have responded to changes in climate.
Ancient high-altitude trees grow faster as temperatures rise
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2009 |
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PIC=32536:left]Increasing temperatures at high altitudes are fueling the post-1950 growth spurt seen in bristlecone pines, the world's oldest trees, according to new research.
Study finds hemlock trees dying rapidly, affecting forest carbon cycle
Feb 26, 2009 |
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New research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests the hemlock woolly adelgid is killing hemlock trees faster than expected in the southern Appalachians and rapidly altering ...
Researcher looking for way to minimize spread of mountain pine beetle
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Like a human being who, with a compromised immune system, is vulnerable to secondary diseases, jack pine trees ravaged by budworms may be more susceptible to an invasion of mountain pine beetles.
Tennessee foresters helping to return chestnuts to American forests
Sep 23, 2009 |
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The American chestnut was a dominant species in eastern U.S.'s forests before a blight wiped it out in the early 1900s. Today it's being returned to the landscape thanks in part to work by a University of ...
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