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Posted November 30, 2012:

• Research in Southern India Provides a Sweet Look at Preservation of Ecological Knowledge

Posted November 28, 2012:

• How Climate Change Could Affect Entire Forest Ecosystems

Posted November 27, 2012:

• Cutting Real Christmas Trees Less Environmentally Harmful Than Using an Artificial One for Six Years, Biologists Say

Posted November 26, 2012:

• Microbial 'Missing Link' Discovered After Man Impales Hand on Tree Branch
• Dendroecology, an Ally of the Conservation for Biodiversity

Posted November 21, 2012:

• Researchers Detail the Migrations of the Wood Wasp Sirex Noctilio

Posted November 20, 2012:

• Birch Tree Genome Sequenced for First Time
• Maple Syrup, Moose, and the Impacts of Climate Change in the North

Posted November 19, 2012:

• Vision Stimulates Courtship Calls in the Grey Tree Frog

Posted November 16, 2012:

• Indirect Effects of Climate Change Could Alter Landscapes

Posted November 12, 2012:

• New Study Shows Effects of Climate Conditions on Bark Beetle Outbreaks

Posted November 7, 2012:

• Researchers Test Solution to Fungal Disease of Ash Trees
• Protected Areas in East Africa May Not Be Conserving Iconic Plants

Posted November 6, 2012:

• New Computational Method for Timing the Tree of Life

Posted November 5, 2012:

• 2001-2002 Drought Helped Propel Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic

Posted November 2, 2012:

• Mountain Meadows Dwindling in Pacific Northwest, U.S. Due to Climate Change, Study Suggests

Posted October 31, 2012:

• Do Australia's Giant Fire-Dependent Trees Belong in the Rainforest?
• Exhaustive Family Tree for Birds Shows Recent, Rapid Diversification
• Inspiration from Mother Nature Leads to Improved Wood
• Diversity and Abundance of Some Insect Fauna in Krau Wildlife Reserve Forest, Malaysia

Posted October 30, 2012:

• Smart as a Bird: Flying Rescue Robot Will Autonomously Avoid Obstacles
• Action Needed to Prevent More Devastating Tree Diseases Entering the UK, Experts Urge

Posted October 25, 2012:

• Clearer Picture of How Assassin Bugs Evolved: Entomologists Reconstruct the Evolutionary History

Posted October 24, 2012:

• Forestry's Waste Wood Offers Habitat for Small Forest-Floor Animals

Posted October 18, 2012:

• 'Time-Capsule' Japanese Lake Sediment Advances Radiocarbon Dating for Older Objects

Posted October 17, 2012:

• Doing Nothing Might Be Best Management Decision for Forests Destroyed by Wind or Ice

Posted October 16, 2012:

• Tree of Life Branches out Online

Posted October 15, 2012:

• Dire Drought Ahead, May Lead to Massive Tree Death

Posted October 10, 2012:

• Climate Change to Lengthen Growing Season

Posted October 8, 2012:

• Unique Ancient Spider Attack Preserved in Amber
• Nearly 50% of Retail Firewood Infested With Insects, Study Finds

Posted October 4, 2012:

• Northern Conifers Youngest of the Species

Posted October 1, 2012:

• Tree Rings Go With the Flow of the Amazon
• Keeping Hunters out of the Hospital

Posted September 30, 2012:

• Climate Change Could Cripple Southwestern U.S. Forests: Trees Face Rising Drought Stress and Mortality as Climate Warms

Posted September 27, 2012:

• 'Semi-Dwarf' Trees May Enable a Green Revolution for Some Forest Crops

Posted September 23, 2012:

• Severe Economic Loss for European Forest Land Expected by 2100

Posted September 21, 2012:

• Nunavut's Mysterious Ancient Life Could Return by 2100 as Arctic Warms

Posted September 20, 2012:

• Bringing Back the Tree That Built America: Scientists Harvest a Unique Stand of White Pine

Posted September 18, 2012:

• Psychologists Study the Effects of Diagram Orientation on Comprehension
• Global Warming: Evolutionary Straitjacket Means Flies Can't Take the Heat

Posted September 13, 2012:

• Study of Giant Viruses Shakes Up Tree of Life

Posted September 12, 2012:

• Old Deeds, Witness Trees Offer Glimpse of Pre-Settlement Forest in West Virginia

Posted September 11, 2012:

• Scrub Jays React to Their Dead, Bird Study Shows: 'Funerals' Can Last for Up to Half an Hour
• Droughts Are Pushing Trees to the Limit

Posted September 9, 2012:

• Forest Mortality and Climate Change: The Big Picture

Posted September 6, 2012:

• Math Tree May Help Root out Fraudsters: Applying Algorithm to Social Networks Can Reveal Hidden Connections Criminals Use to Commit Fraud

Posted August 30, 2012:

• Can Blue Tits Can Save Our Conker Trees?

Posted August 28, 2012:

• Why Are There So Many Species of Beetles and So Few Crocodiles?
• 'New England Banksia' a Distinct Species, Botany Student Shows

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