Papua New Guinea has been losing about 1.4 percent of its total forest cover, each year, a new analysis suggests.
... or disease epidemics. Many such factors require more study, they said.
Among the findings of the report:
Forests cover about one-third of the nation's land area, and although they have roles in ...
... scientists have determined that similar upper Midwest forests covering an estimated 40,000 square ... persistent legacies of poor management practices on forest carbon storage in northern Michigan should ...
... ally in mushrooms growing in dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and other northern ... a vicious cycle of warming in dry, boreal forests. Instead, we get the reverse, where warming ...
Uganda has lost nearly a third of its forest cover since 1990 due to expanding farmlands, a rapidly growing human population and increased urbanisation, a government report said on Friday.
Despite political commitment, Europe is struggling to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. Forests cover roughly a third of the European land area and they are a vital host to much of the biological ...
... and the importance of biodiversity: Development of mechanisms to monitor orangutan populations and forest cover, building on those in place on both Borneo and Sumatra; Continuation of surveys in ...
... without falling in.
Gonzalez, who has worked with USDA Forest Service scientists to analyze lynx habitat, ... by 10 to 20 percent and reduce boreal forest cover by half in the contiguous U.S. Together, ...
... since 2005, based on data from the National Energy Administration in China.
Decreasing forest cover, almost exclusively from deforestation in tropical countries, was responsible for an estimated 1. ...
... suggested deer populations can negatively impact forest ecosystems through eating plants that many smaller ... exclosures, based on similar habitat type, forest cover, soil type, and slope. The exclosures ...
... modern Amazonian tropical ecosystem were in place, he said.
Fossil hunting is usually difficult in the forest-covered tropics because of the lack of exposed rock, Bloch said. But excavations in the ...
... Examples of the nature-conflict connection include the Vietnam War, when poisonous Agent Orange destroyed forest cover and coastal mangroves, and timber harvesting that funded war ...
... fewest roads and the fewest fires," she says.
"This reinforces the importance of reserves for protecting forest cover in the Amazon" says Pimm. "Our results show that even inhabited reserves can be ...
... -- those planted to reduce the use of fossil fuels -- replacing forests. However, placing a value on terrestrial carbon emissions led to increased forest cover, while bioenergy still expanded ...
... low-grade materials.
"Maintaining or increasing forest cover has been identified as an important way to slow ... forests for so long now, we really don't know much about the species at all."
Jacobs ...
