Author: zooplantman
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Pest attacks can lead to bigger crop yields
A team member’s previous research had identified one Colombian potato variety that responds to moth damage with robust yields.
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Who Built The Mysterious Mima mounds? Could it be… PLANTS???
The plants don’t directly form the mounds, but they affect waterborne and windborne soil deposition and erosion, which can lead to mound formation
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The Greatest Seed Dispersion Story Ever Told: 18,000 kilometres!
In what is probably the farthest single dispersal event ever recorded, researchers have shown using genetic analysis that an acacia tree endemic to Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is directly descended from a common Hawaiian tree known as the koa. In fact, these two trees on small specks of land on opposite sides of the globe turn out to be the same species.
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Fish Are Made Of Forests, And Forests Are Disappearing
We found fish that had almost 70% of their biomass made from carbon that came from trees and leaves instead of aquatic food chain sources
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Forest As Efficient As Tech To Clean Pollution
So a 10,000-acre forest equals one average industrial scrubber. And in this part of Texas, where open land is ample, reforestation is within reach. The cost of the project not including the land would be about the same as using traditional forms of pollution control
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Forest Fire, 66-million years ago, yields new information
Scientists have recently discovered evidence of a 66-million-year-old wildfire in Saskatchewan, Canada, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. For the first time, the research group discovered fossilized plant life that points to a prehistoric forest fire, providing scientists with clues about Earth’s ancient climate.
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Will Pine Bark Cure Skin Cancer?
Melanoma is an especially aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer that can be difficult to treat. Recently, researchers discovered a compound within pine tree bark that might be able to combat the disease.
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Koalas Hug Trees To Cool Off
Thermal imaging has revealed koalas cope with extreme heat by resting against cooler tree trunks.
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Watch Attenborough’s ‘Secret Life of Plants’
Six full-length on-line episodes of this wonderful documentary
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Island Life Does Strange Things To Seed Size
Just like some lizards and insects evolve to larger sizes on islands, a new study has found plant seeds do the same.