Fair to showcase innovations in natural resources, forestry
...ntists and their collaborators with application to forests in the Pacific Northwest. "As our first innovation fair," said Cynthia Miner, the Station's communications and applications director, "we're looking forward to sharing information and technologies generated to benefit understanding and management ...Duke open-air experiment results could deflate hopes that forests can alleviate global warming
...ed States may limit the abilities of loblolly pine forests to use the extra CO2 to produce more tissues as th...from the Duke experiment, "I'd be surprised if the forests of the world will take up more than one-third of the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions in th...Carbon dioxide fertilization is neither boon nor bust
...O2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment, is to examine how forests will respond to the increasing level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and whether it will alter the development of the greenhouse effect. Among the findings is that young trees and other green plants respond favorably to elevated concentrations of...1,136 scientists call for protection of deep-sea corals
...tion biology. Scientists have recently discovered forests of gorgonian corals and reefs of stony corals at s...housands of species live in these cold-water coral forests and reefs, leading scientists to call them the "rainforests of the deep." But even before scientist...Woodpeckers: There's a fungus among us
...al species of woodpeckers living in ponderosa pine forests in northern California and Oregon, finding that ov...ble to excavate nest cavities vital components of forests that serve as nesting sites to a variety of wildlife. "Our study shows that woodpeckers are really t...Asia's biodiversity vanishing into the marketplace
... "empty forest syndrome" concept, used to describe forests after hunters decimate their animal populations. "As animals that perform vital roles in the forest as predators, pollinators and seed dispersers disappear, other species will also go." In last 40 years, 12 species of large animals have become exti...Keeping populations of cerulean warbler healthy
...April or May to build nests in the upper canopy of forests in the southeastern United States. Since 1966, pop...development. In its winter range in South America, forests are also being lost to agriculture. Hamel summarizes what is currently known about the biology of t...Spruce bark beetle outbreaks examined at Alaska Symposium
... January 20, 2004. About 4 million acres of spruce forests were infested and killed by the spruce beetle in s...ire, of course, spreads rapidly through these dead forests causing catastrophic damage to life and property. Several state and federal agencies are presenting...Ebola outbreaks are simultaneous 'mini-epidemics'
... numbers of animal carcasses are sometimes seen in forests just prior to humans coming down with the disease. They recommend that a monitoring network to look for dead and dying large animals be established as an early warning system. Gorillas in particular, have been hard-hit by the Ebola, the authors...Rice centromere, supposedly quiet genetic domain, surprises
... Jiang suggests, may be analogous to how temperate forests evolve from more diverse ecosystems to climax forests where a single species of tree dominates. In the rice centromere, it may be that evolution has not y...Araucariaceae of New-Caledonia: endemic species in danger
...ecies (A. columnaris) which favours mainly coastal forests on calcareous formations. Among the species encountered on ultramafic rocks, three (A. subulata, A. biramulata, A. bernieri) are essentially forest adapted, whereas the other seven grow in both the forest and the maquis. These distribution patterns ...Armies of fighting fungi protect chocolate trees
...fers a viable economic alternative to clearing the forests for ranching. Field tests of fungi as biological control agents are already underway, said the researchers. The biologists published their findings in the Dec. 23, 2003, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lead author on the...NASA scientists discover spring thaw makes a difference
...haw dynamics in North America and Eurasia's boreal forests and tundra to decipher effects on the timing and length of the growing season. These regions encompass almost 30 percent of global land area. They store a major portion of Earth's carbon invegetation, in seasonally frozen and permafrost soils. Large ...The destruction of tropical forests to create vacation resorts for human "snowbirds" who fly south from Canada and the northern U.S. every winter is creating serious breeding problems for real migratory birds, say Queen's University biologists. A new study, headed by Ph.D. student Ryan...Governing commons still a struggle, but fight not without hope, according to new report
...could sustain commons such as air, groundwater and forests over the long run. To illustrate his point, he used a little-known pamphlet written in 1833 by mathematician William Forster Lloyd about the use of public lands by herdsmen. In Lloyd's story, a pasture is open for grazing to all herdsmen. This arrang...Satellites spy deaths in rain forests (Clark et al.)
The world's tropical rain forests are under increasing threats from clearing for agr...ldlife, global climate change and the reduction of forests to ever-smaller fragments. Studying the effects of these changes on the keystone structural elements...Professor uses satellites to protect Amazon forests, global climate
...e logging has substantially impeded the ability of forests to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Amazon acts as a giant carbon sink, drawing carbon dioxide, required by plants for life, out of the atmosphere and into the forest. The biomass in the forest then absorbs and stores it, keeping a port...Squirrel invasion sows seeds of change for future forests
...ts for winter, they also plant the seeds of future forests - but the different ways squirrel species hoard nu... At the same time, the number of gray squirrels in forests began to decline as more forest habitat was converted for agriculture, he said. The problem with thi...Tracking the illegal ivory trade
...at poachers can be hard to spot, especially in the forests of Central Africa. To help track the source of illegal ivory, Comstock and her colleagues extended a genetic test they had developed that can distinguish blood and tissue samples of elephants from different parts of Africa. The test can distinguish ......le shade coffee is promoted as protecting tropical forests and birds, conservationists are split on whether it actually works. The December issue of Conservation Biology has the latest on the debate: one side says shade coffee can give farmers a reason to preserve tropical biodiversity while the other side f...