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  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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  Improved Stink Bug Trapping Methods

  January 18, 2013 — Baited black traps in a pyramid shape attract significantly more brown marmorated stink bugs than other traps, according to scientists. Evaluating stink bug responses to different visual stimuli may ... > full story
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  Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon Forest, Study Finds

  January 18, 2013 — An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study. These results, together with ... > full story
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  Global Plant Diversity Still Hinges on Local Battles Against Invasives, Study Suggests

  January 17, 2013 — Scientists have long suspected that studies of the impact of invasive species on biodiversity sometimes come to different conclusions because the impact depends on the size of the study site. Their ... > full story
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  Landsat Senses a Disturbance in the Forest

  January 15, 2013 — A new way of studying and visualizing Earth science data from a NASA and US Geological Survey satellite program is resulting in, for the first time, the ability to tease out the small events that can ... > full story
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  Pine Beetle Outbreak Buffers Watersheds from Nitrate Pollution

  January 14, 2013 — Scientists have found an unexpected silver lining in the devastating pine beetle outbreaks ravaging the West: Such events do not harm water quality in adjacent streams as scientists had previously ... > full story
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  Eastern Europe: Tree Rings Reveal Climate Variability and Human History

  January 14, 2013 — A total of 545 precisely dated tree-ring width samples, both from living trees and from larch wood taken from historical buildings in the northern Carpathian arc of Slovakia, were used to reconstruct ... > full story
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  Amino Acid Studies May Aid Battle Against Citrus Greening Disease

  January 14, 2013 — Amino acids in orange juice might reveal secrets to the successful attack strategy of the plant pathogen that causes citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing or HLB. Studies of these ... > full story
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  Medicinal 'Toothbrush Tree' Yields Antibiotic to Treat TB in New Way

  January 14, 2013 — There are potentially new TB drugs in the pipeline from unusual sources. A newly discovered compound has been found to be effective against resistant strains of ... > full story
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  A History Lesson from Genes: Using DNA to Tell Us How Populations Change

  January 9, 2013 — Researchers have developed a software model that can infer population history from modern ... > full story

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