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Tropical Biodiversity Is About the Neighbors
June 25, 2010 — Rare plant species are much more negatively affected by the presence of their own species as neighbors than are common species. This may explain how biodiversity arises and is ... > full story -
Flower Power Makes Tropics Cooler, Wetter
June 16, 2010 — The world is a cooler, wetter place because of flowering plants, according to new climate simulation. The effect is especially pronounced in the Amazon basin, where replacing flowering plants with ... > full story -
Incidence of Malaria Jumps When Amazon Forests Are Cut, Study Finds
June 16, 2010 — Establishing a firm link between environmental change and human disease has always been an iffy proposition. Now, however, a team of scientists presents the most enumerated case to date linking ... > full story -
Fire May Be Key to Reviving Dogwood Trees in Eastern Forests
June 8, 2010 — Proper and timely burning of some Eastern US forests could help revitalize flowering dogwood trees, which benefits a wide range of species, a new report ... > full story -
Invasive Tallowtree Spreading Rapidly Across Gulf Coast
June 8, 2010 — The numbers of nonnative Chinese tallowtree in Louisiana, Mississippi and east Texas have grown by about 370 percent over a 16-year period. The spread of the invasive plant may create problems for ... > full story -
Biodiversity Hot Spots More Vulnerable to Global Warming Than Thought
June 7, 2010 — Global warming may present a threat to animal and plant life even in biodiversity hot spots once thought less likely to suffer from climate change, according to a new ... > full story -
Climate Change Linked to Major Vegetation Shifts Worldwide
June 7, 2010 — Vegetation around the world is on the move, and climate change is the culprit, according to a new analysis of global vegetation ... > full story -
Fires in Amazon Challenge Emission Reduction Program
June 3, 2010 — Fire occurrence rates in the Amazon have increased in 59 percent of areas with reduced deforestation and risks canceling part of the carbon savings achieved by UN measures to reduce greenhouse gas ... > full story -
Who Are We Sharing the Planet With? Millions Less Species Than Previously Thought, New Calculations Suggest
June 2, 2010 — New calculations reveal that the number of species on Earth is likely to be in the order of several million rather than tens of millions. The findings, from an Australian-led study, are based on a ... > full story -
New Gecko Species Identified in West African Rain Forests
June 1, 2010 — Using a new statistical method to compare the genes of 50 specimens of the West African forest gecko, researchers have determined that the widely distributed species is actually four distinct species ... > full story
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