Science news articles about 'plant biodiversity'
Extinction risk to plant biodiversity may occur at lower levels of atmospheric CO2 than previously considered
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have traced a sudden collapse in plant biodiversity in ancient Greenland, some 200 million years ago, to a relatively small rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide which caused ...Tropics No Longer Museum Of Plant Biodiversity
The biodiversity picture in the region known as the "lungs of the Earth" contradicts commonly held views relating to extinction in that area. New research outlines that the risk of extinction for ...If plants could talk, what would they say?
... Darwin's observations so many years ago contributed to the groundbreaking understanding of plant biodiversity. This event also compliments, the Royal Anthropological Institute's educational outreach ...Fertilization intensifies competition for light and endangers plant diversity
... This study is the first direct experimental proof that competition for light is the main mechanism of plant biodiversity loss after fertilization» says Yann Hautier summarizing the results of his PhD ...'Biodiversity beyond the habitat's borders'
... the protected longleaf pine savanna patches. The title of their paper is "Landscape Connectivity Promotes Plant Biodiversity Spillover Into Non-target Habitats." In patches that were connected by ...Sudden collapse in ancient biodiversity: Was global warming the culprit?
Scientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity. A trove of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland tells the ...What makes life go at the tropics?
... for life, has strong influence on diversity.” Biologists have known for centuries that animal and plant biodiversity is greatest at the tropics, though they have not agreed on whether temperature or ...Pollination habits of endangered Texas rice revealed to help preservation
... No seeds means no new plants to replenish a population that faces other survival threats. ... species conservation. Texas has about 25 percent of the plant biodiversity nationally, including 23 endangered ...Field of the future -- ecological experiment simulates conditions in 2100
... to which climate-driven effects on these key functions are modified by changes in levels of plant biodiversity in the ecosystem. The research team have chosen to include different levels of plant ...Study on wildlife corridors shows how they work over time
... Orrock and their colleagues published the first definitive evidence that corridors are effective in extending plant biodiversity in fragmented large-scale habitats in a paper published in Science. ...DNA 'barcode' for tropical trees
... sometimes need to be quickly identified. The use of DNA `barcodes` to itemize plant biodiversity was proposed during the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Summit. Jérôme Chave's team from the ...
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