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Science Synthesis to Help Guide Land Management of U.S. Forests
February 21, 2013 — Scientists have recently released a synthesis of relevant science that will help inform forest managers as they revise plans for the national forests in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades of ... > full story -
Little Did We Know About Beetle Diversity: Astonishing 138 New Species in a Single Genus
February 20, 2013 — Researchers have described in a single article 138 new species in a genus of tropical beetles. This six-fold increase in known diversity indicates the extent to which remarkable biodiversity can ... > full story -
New Insect: Spectacular Forcepfly Species Discovered for the First Time in South America
February 17, 2013 — Austromerope is a genus of forcepflies, whose representatives are rare and mostly restricted in distribution. It belongs to the family Meropeidae (Mecoptera) and was recently unexpectedly discovered ... > full story -
Wetland Trees a Significant Overlooked Source of Methane
February 13, 2013 — Wetland trees are a significant overlooked source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to a new study. The study may help to resolve an ongoing controversy about the origins of methane in ... > full story -
Tree Die-Off Triggered by Hotter Temperatures
February 11, 2013 — Scientists have determined that the recent widespread die-off of Colorado trembling aspen trees is a direct result of decreased precipitation exacerbated by high summer temperatures. The die-off, ... > full story -
Lungs of the Planet Reveal Their True Sensitivity to Global Warming
February 6, 2013 — The amount of carbon dioxide that rainforests absorb, or produce, varies hugely with year-to-year variations in the climate. Climate scientists have shown that these variations reveal how vulnerable ... > full story -
Amazon Freshwater Ecosystems Are Vulnerable to Degradation
February 1, 2013 — Broadening of forest-centric focus to river catchment-based conservation framework is required: A new study found that freshwater ecosystems in the Amazon are highly vulnerable to environmental ... > full story -
Planting Trees May Not Reverse Climate Change, but It Will Help Locally
February 1, 2013 — Afforestation, planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of climate change by cooling temperate regions, a new study ... > full story -
Vegetation Changes in Cradle of Humanity: Study Raises Questions About Impact on Human Evolution
January 31, 2013 — What came first: the bipedal human ancestor or the grassland encroaching on the forest? A new analysis of the past 12 million years' of vegetation change in the cradle of humanity is challenging ... > full story -
24 New Species of Flower Fly Have Been Found in Central and Southern America
January 31, 2013 — Scientists have described twenty four new species of dipterans belonging to Quichuana genus, of which only a further 24 species were known. The researchers have been studying the forests of Central ... > full story
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