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  Climate Change Projected to Alter Indiana Bat Maternity Range

  January 28, 2013 — Scientists have forecast profound changes over the next 50 years in the summer range of the endangered Indiana bat. Researchers now discuss the findings of one of the first studies designed to ... > full story
• Ecology Research
  Zoology
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  Rainforests
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  Stable Fisher Population Found in the Southern Sierra Nevada

  January 28, 2013 — After experiencing years of population decline on the West Coast, a recent study examining fisher populations found that -- at least in the southern Sierra Nevada -- the animal's numbers appear to be ... > full story
• Forest
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  Shedding Light on Role of Amazon Forests in Global Carbon Cycle

  January 28, 2013 — Scientists have devised an analytical method that combines satellite images, simulation modeling and painstaking fieldwork to help researchers detect forest mortality patterns and trends. This new ... > full story
• Wildfires
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  Measuring the Consequence of Forest Fires on Public Health

  January 27, 2013 — Pollution from forest fires is impacting the health of people with asthma and other chronic obstructive lung diseases, finds a new study. This study uses data from pharmacies and dispensaries to ... > full story
• Insects (including Butterflies)
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  New Control Strategies for 'Bipolar' Bark Beetles

  January 25, 2013 — Population explosions of destructive pine beetles may be prevented by boosting competitor and predator beetle populations, a new study suggests. The study confirmed, for the first time, that the ... > full story
• Ecology
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  Environmental Policy
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  Paradise Found for Latin America's Largest Land Mammal

  January 22, 2013 — Scientists have documented a thriving population of lowland tapirs – the strange forest and grassland-dwelling herbivore with the trunk-like snout – living along the Peru-Bolivia ... > full story
• Monkeys
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  Monkeys Stressed from Longer Foraging Times

  January 22, 2013 — Disturbed habitats are resulting in increasingly poor diets for monkeys, and the additional time required to find food is causing concerning levels of stress in endangered ... > full story
• Trees
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  Nature
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  Curious Interaction in Regeneration of Oak Forests: Voles Know Which Acorns Have Insect Larvae

  January 22, 2013 — Researchers have observed as voles are able to distinguish the acorns containing insect larvae from those that do not. This fact determines the dispersion and germination of acorns, and therefore the ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Organic
   
  

  Warmer Soils Release Additional CO₂ Into Atmosphere; Effect Stabilizes Over Longer Term

  January 20, 2013 — Warmer temperatures due to climate change could cause soils to release additional carbon into the atmosphere, thereby enhancing climate change – but that effect diminishes over the long term, ... > full story
• Forest
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  Global Warming
   

  Climate Change's Effects on Temperate Rain Forests Surprisingly Complex

  January 18, 2013 — Longer, warmer growing seasons associated with a changing climate are altering growing conditions in temperate rain forests, but not all plant species will be negatively affected, according to new ... > full story

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