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• Global Warming
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  Global Nitrogen Availability Consistent for Past 500 Years Linked to Carbon Levels

  March 21, 2013 — Despite humans increasing nitrogen production through industrialization, nitrogen availability in many ecosystems has remained steady for the past 500 years, a new study ... > full story
• Grassland
  Biodiversity
  Ecology
  Ecology Research
  Agriculture and Food
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Catastrophic Loss of Cambodia's Tropical Flooded Grasslands

  March 17, 2013 — New research reveals the catastrophic loss of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grasslands. Around half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grasslands have been lost in just 10 years according to ... > full story
• Dogs
  Nature
  Veterinary Medicine
  Animals
  Biology
  Mating and Breeding
   
  

  Prairie Dogs Disperse When All Close Kin Have Disappeared

  March 7, 2013 — Prairie dogs pull up stakes and look for a new place to live when all their close kin have disappeared from their home territory -- a striking pattern of dispersal that has not been observed for any ... > full story
• Invasive Species
  Nature
  Genetics
  Biology
  Ecology Research
  Life Sciences
   

  Assembling the Transcriptome of a Noxious Weed: New Resources for Studying How Plants Invade

  March 5, 2013 — Scientists have assembled transcriptomes of a noxious weed, Brachypodium sylvaticum, or slender false brome. The transcriptome provides an extensive genetic tool for studying how invasive species, ... > full story
• Ecology
  Ecology Research
  Ecosystems
  Nature
  Biodiversity
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Biodiversity Helps Protect Nature Against Human Impacts

  February 6, 2013 — New research suggests farmers and resource managers should not rely on seemingly stable but vulnerable single-crop monocultures. Instead they should encourage more kinds of plants in fields and woods ... > full story
• Nature
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Early Climate
  Cultures
  Fossils
   
  

  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
• Water
  Drought
  Drought Research
  Ecology
  Endangered Plants
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Plant Water Demands Shift With Water Availability

  January 22, 2013 — Plants can adapt to extreme shifts in water availability, such as drought and flooding, but their ability to withstand these extreme patterns will be tested by future climate change, according to a ... > full story
• Nature
  Early Climate
  Ecology
  Climate
  Origin of Life
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Fluctuating Environment May Have Driven Human Evolution

  December 26, 2012 — A series of rapid environmental changes in East Africa roughly 2 million years ago may be responsible for driving human evolution, according to researchers at Penn State and Rutgers ... > full story
• Exotic Species
  Invasive Species
  Soil Types
  Ecology Research
  Endangered Plants
  Nature
   

  Invasive Plant Species May Harm Native Grasslands by Changing Soil Composition

  December 19, 2012 — The future landscape of the American Midwest could look a lot like the past—covered in native grasslands rather than agricultural crops. This is not a return to the past, however, but a future ... > full story
• Soil Types
  Organic
  Fungus
  Water
  Acid Rain
  Drought
   
  

  Haymeadows Are Good for the Environment Say Researchers

  December 7, 2012 — Traditional haymeadows are much better at supporting biodiversity and preventing water pollution than intensively farmed fields according to new research. This is because haymeadows lose five times ... > full story

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