Natural biodiversity protects rural farmers’ incomes from tropical weather shocks
Credit: UBC Media Relations A big data study covering more than 7,500 households across 23 tropical countries shows that natural ...
Tag: Forestry
Mimicking the ultrastructure of wood with 3D-printing for green products
Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in 3D printing with a ...
Reining in the ecological effects of free-roaming horses
Free-roaming horses are an icon of the American West, frequently appearing in art and media as exemplars of the spirited ...
Towards a worldwide inventory of all plants
Researchers from Göttingen publish global database of regional plant lifeCredit: Ptarick Wiegelt Declining biodiversity due to man-made habitat destruction and ...
Former war refugee maps habitat for West African bird
Credit: Benedictus Freeman LAWRENCE -- Growing up in Liberia during that country's brutal 14-year civil war, Benedictus Freeman and his ...
Undercounting of agroforestry skews climate change mitigation planning and reporting
Agroforestry is overlooked in global climate change reporting systems, resulting in missed opportunities to account for a major carbon sinkCredit: ...
New forest treatment helps trees adapt better to climatic change
Credit: University of Granada Researchers from the University of Granada, the Andalusian Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Fishing, Food ...
Pine woodland restoration creates haven for birds in Midwest, MU study finds
Credit: University of Missouri. Millions of acres of pine woodlands once covered a large portion of the Midwest. But as ...
Roads and deforestation explode in the Congo basin
Logging roads are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin, leading to catastrophic collapses in animal populations living in the world's ...
Heat kills invasive jumping worm cocoons, could help limit spread
Credit: Chris Barncard / UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- New research out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum shows that temperatures ...
Why climate change means a rethink of coffee and cocoa production systems
Credit: Bioversity International/K.DeSousa Global demand for coffee and cocoa is on the rise. Yet across the equatorial belt where these ...
New research shows importance of climate on spruce beetle flight
Credit: Karina Puikkonen/Colorado State University If the climate continues warming as predicted, spruce beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains could ...
Cell structure linked to longevity of slow-growing Ponderosa Pines
Credit: Beth Roskilly MISSOULA - Slow-growing ponderosa pines may have a better chance of surviving longer than fast-growing ones, especially ...
Monitoring biodiversity with sound: How machines can enrich our knowledge
Research team lead by Göttingen scientist compares traditional and modern survey methodsCredit: Kevin Darras For a long time, ecologists have ...
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