More than 60% of Myanmar’s mangroves has been deforested in the last 20 years: NUS study
Between 1996 and 2016, substantial mangrove forests have been converted to agricultural use; Pressing need to protect the critical coastal ...
Tag: Plant Sciences
Collaborative using UVM researcher using NSF grant to recreate regional temperature data
Discovering a missing piece of recent climate dataCredit: University of Vermont Schoolchildren know that the age of a tree can ...
Directed species loss from species-rich forests strongly decreases productivity
Credit: Yuanyuan Huang The forest biodiversity experiment BEF-China began in 2009 with the collaboration among institutions in China, Germany and ...
Whether horseradish flea beetles deter predators depends on their food plant and their life stage
Larvae of these leaf beetles deploy plant defense compounds to fend off predators, whereas their pupae cannotCredit: Benjamin Fabian, Max ...
How pest management strategies affect the bottom line
The economics of pest controlCredit: Ronald Stephenson A study out of Mississippi State University evaluated the impact insect pest management ...
Discovering what makes durian stink
First evidence of rare amino acid in plantsCredit: Martin Steinhaus Freising/Germany - Researchers at the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology ...
Thinning, prescribed burns protected forests during the massive Carlton Complex wildfire
Credit: Susan Prichard/University of Washington The 2014 Carlton Complex wildfire in north central Washington was the largest contiguous fire in ...
Tyson Raper named Cotton Researcher of the Year
Honored at National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice ConferenceCredit: Ginger Rowsey JACKSON, Tenn. - Agriculture industry leaders have bestowed the ...
Baldness gene discovery reveals origin of hairy alpine plants
Credit: Ying Tan Scientists have solved a puzzle that has long baffled botanists - why some plants on high mountainsides ...
Roadmap to a win-win against invasive weeds
Combining big data with citizen science provide answers to problems with terrestrial invasive species.Credit: Blair Cowie/Wits University Researchers at Wits ...
What big data can tell us about plants
New journal launched by Cambridge University Press and the John Innes CentreCredit: Cambridge University Press A new open access journal ...
Eat or be eaten
Biodiversity increases the efficiency of energy use in grasslandsCredit: Alexandra Weigelt For the first time, they did not just investigate ...
Seeds in Tibet face impacts from climate change
Warming and increased precipitation tests the resilience of soil seed banks against harm done by climate changeCredit: Photo courtesy of ...
Adaptation: Competition and predation may not be the driving force scientists thought
Study of local adaptation provides important insights into evolutionary forcesCredit: Photo credit: Anna Hargreaves Species adapt to their local climates, ...
By gum! Scientists find new 110-million-year-old treasure
Credit: University of Portsmouth A remarkable new treasure has been found by scientists from the University of Portsmouth - the ...
Boost soybean yields by adapting photosynthesis to fleeting shadows, according to model
Credit: Claire Benjamin/RIPE project CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Komorebi is a Japanese word that describes how light filters through leaves--creating shifting, ...
A genetic map for maize
Researchers uncover the genetics of how corn can adapt faster to new climatesCredit: University of Delaware Maize is a staple ...
The University of Tennessee System announces One Health Initiative
Effort to focus on animal, environmental issues with implications for human healthCredit: Tory Salvador, UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University ...
Diversifying traditional forest management to protect forest arthropods
Forest arthropods and rivers: an unknown connectionCredit: Antoni Serra, UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-CRBA The structure of vegetation and steam distance are ...
DNA from ancient packrat nests helps unpack Earth’s past
New study uses environmental DNA sequencing technique to show ecological changes since last Ice AgeCredit: © Julio Betancourt New work ...
