Earthworm invasion will change forests
...IS / ST. PAUL--From the East Coast to the Rockies, forests in northern states and adjacent Canadian province...e Chippewa and Chequamegon (SCHWA-me-gun) national forests in Minnesota and Wisconsin, respectively. In both places, they found that exotic earthworms tended t......r. Its waters support environmentally-unique tugai forests found only in Central Asia, along with land used for rice and cotton cultivation. The grey area seen in the otherwise whitish zone between the two arms of the Large Aral Sea was once Vozrozhdeniye ('Rebirth') Island, the isolated site of biological...New discoveries about old-growth forests
...h forest. It is generally accepted that old-growth forests are ecosystems defined as forests with old trees and related structural attributes like large trees, large dead woody material on the ...17-year study confirms that lead in the soil descends slowly
... studies," says Friedland, "that show that lead in forests in the Northeast moves very, very slowly. The lead...ngs are representative of deciduous and coniferous forests throughout much of the Northeastern U.S. and in some areas in Europe and Scandinavia. "Since the fo...Leaf fall in ancient polar forests still a mystery
...he 1800s discovered through fossils that deciduous forests once covered the poles, but researchers still do n..., and nearly 40 percent of the area was covered by forests consisting mostly of deciduous trees. "Today, we do not have these types of forests in the polar la...Alien earthworms changing ecology of Northeast forests
KINGSTON, R.I. June 24, 2003 Some forests throughout the Northeast are rapidly changing, but...at's because the driving force behind the changing forests are earthworms, which play a key role in recycling nutrients in the soil but which may also be alter...Researchers discover birds protect trees in neotropics by eating insects
...birds help crops and low-lying plants in temperate forests by devouring insects had been known. However, man...orized that the rich diversity of life in tropical forests would diffuse any significant contributions by birds. Worldwide, but especially in Neotropical fores...Harry Potter and the Ecuadorian flowers
...e and Grant have been exploring the shrinking rain forests of South America, most recently the tropical, moun...ea, is found predominantly in the mountainous rain forests of America, and it was these that in 2001 the two scientists sought in Ecuador. "We drove south thr...Long-term study of humans and deforestation in Amazon Basin gets new support
...kly second and third generations learn to conserve forests on their land is of critical importance in predicting how much rainforest will remain standing," said Moran, James H. Rudy Professor of Anthropology and director of the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change. ...The Year of Biodiversity and Conservation
...ropical countries, most recently to the high cloud forests of Peru. Dillon catalogs the plants he finds, det...c areas for example, on islands and in fragmented forests may be on their way to becoming new species or harbor key genetic variation that might help species...ESA providing Kyoto estimates of French Guianas tropical forests
...sts, most of which are in French Guiana. Tropical forests represent a vast store of carbon, while their defo...proximately 80 000 sq km, is covered with tropical forests and woodlands. French Guiana is also home to the European spaceport, shared by the French and ESA, a...Ancient pollen yields insight into forest biodiversity
...ecologists have sharpened the understanding of how forests can maintain a diversity of species. Their findings indicate that stabilizing processes have been more important than previously thought, and that the human-caused loss of species could upset that stability in ways that remain poorly understood. "Qu...Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests
...ete unfairly with the native vegetation. "Southern forests are literally choked by kudzu, oriental bittersweet, and privet," said Miller. "While most people are aware of these first invaders, many do not realize the problems that ornamental plants such as periwinkle, burning bush, and English ivy cause. Most...Natural resources research helps HIV/AIDS victims
...udying the role of natural resources, specifically forests and non-timber forest products, in the strategies ...d food insecurity. In such situations, we see that forests and non-timber forest products become an important component in household coping strategies, providi...New desert research and education center established
...ecord. Other district parks contain the coniferous forests of MountPalomar, the oak woodlands of the Cuyamacas and the lower ColoradoRiver," said the institute's new executive director, Marty Eberhardt,formerly executive director of the Tucson Botanical Gardens. "Our vision is to expand the ways that people ...New clues emerge about the fate of smog in Sierra Nevada forests
...ts believe that when smog ozone is taken up by the forests of the Sierra Nevada, it is mostly absorbed by tre...ers, indicate that much of the ozone entering pine forests in the Sierra Nevada could be reacting with natural hydrocarbons emitted by plants. One outcome of t...Africa's richest wildlife region under new threats
...ected areas of high importance include the montane forests of Itombwe Massif in DRC. Many of the most important sites in the rift are highly threatened because of civil war in DRC. Local people have encroached upon and settled inside protected areas, and armed militias are living in both the Virunga and Kah...Greenhouse gas might green up the desert
...rrent issue of Global Change Biology, suggest that forests in other parts of the globe could also be expandin...fertile lands. These results were unexpected since forests in dry regions are considered to develop very slowly, if at all, and thus are not expected to soak u...UC Riverside scientists contribute to study that unveils genome sequence of bread mold
...s of Neurospora have been found in the temperate forests of North America in recent years. Neurospora sexual spores are well-known for their ability to germinate after a forest fire; the resulting colony then utilizes the burnt plant matter as a food source. For this reason, Neurospora can be seen gr...Cheap coffee is lousy for tigers, elephants, rhinos Science says
...ant coffee, is leading to deforestation of lowland forests in Indonesia, home to that country's last remaining populations of wild tigers and other species. Falling coffee prices worldwide has led to the need for more production, which in turn has resulted in more forest being cleared, even in national park...