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Amazon's Biodiversity: Clearing Up Doubts as to the Benefits of Ecotourism
November 22, 2011 — Ecological tourism has no effect on the presence of large mammals in the Amazon, according to a study that for the first time compares the biological diversity of ecotourism zones with that of ... > full story -
Planting Depth's Effect on Container-Grown Trees
November 17, 2011 — Researchers tested the effects of planting depth of container-grown liners of pin oak and littleleaf linden. The study investigated tree growth during production in nursery containers and growth and ... > full story -
Good Preparation Is Key, Even for Plant Cells and Symbiotic Fungi
November 14, 2011 — Laser capture microdissection provides an insight into the symbiotic program of root cells. The most prevalent plant symbiosis is that between root cells and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, called AM ... > full story -
Coneheads (Protura) of Italy: What We Know in Their 'Native' Country After a Century
November 10, 2011 — Coneheads collected from all over the territory of Italy were studied by three researchers. 40 species have been identified (belonging to eight genera and four families), six of which are new records ... > full story -
Nitrogen Fertilizers' Impact on Lawn Soils
November 6, 2011 — Nitrogen fertilizers from farm fields often end up in aquatic ecosystems, resulting in water quality problems, such as toxic algae and underwater 'dead zones'. There are concerns that fertilizers ... > full story -
Tropical Forests Fertilized by Nitrogen Air Pollution, Scientists Find
November 3, 2011 — Scientists braved ticks and a tiger to discover how human activities have perturbed the nitrogen cycle in tropical forests. Studies at two remote Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory ... > full story -
Digging Up Clues: Research on Buried Blow Flies to Help Crime Scene Investigators
November 1, 2011 — When investigating a murder, every clue helps. New research sheds light on how -- and whether -- blow flies survive when buried underground during their development. It's an advance that will help ... > full story -
Savannas and Forests in a Battle of the Biomes
October 31, 2011 — Climate change, land use and other human-driven factors could pit savannas and forests against each other by altering the elements found by researchers to stabilize the two. Without this harmony, the ... > full story -
Effects of Deforestation and Expansion of Agriculture in Peruvian Highland Jungle
October 24, 2011 — An environmental science researcher in Sweden has examined the geochemical status of the natural environment in the Amazonas Region, and to what extent it has been impacted by deforestation and ... > full story -
Gypsies, Graveyards and Mysterious Plants
October 20, 2011 — Scientists have confirmed the identity of a strange grass-like sedge discovered in a Mississippi graveyard, and believes the appearance of the potentially invasive plant is linked to the final ... > full story -
From Tropics to Poles: Study Reveals Diversity of Life in Soils
October 18, 2011 — Microscopic animals that live in soils are as diverse in the tropical forests of Costa Rica as they are in the arid grasslands of Kenya, or the tundra and boreal forests of Alaska and Sweden, ... > full story -
New Study Finds 400,000 Farmers in Southern Africa Using 'Fertilizer Trees' to Improve Food Security
October 14, 2011 — On a continent battered by weather extremes, famine and record food prices, new research documents an exciting new trend in which hundreds of thousands of poor farmers in Southern Africa are now ... > full story
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