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July 20, 2023

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Picturing Where Wildlands and People Meet at a Global Scale

Researchers have created the first tool to map and visualize the areas where human settlements and nature meet on a global scale. The tool could improve responses to environmental conflicts like wildfires, the spread of zoonotic diseases and loss of ecosystem ...

How to Track Animal of Legend? Look to the Poop

研究人员应用遗传和同位素分析to jaguar scat to investigate the habitat needs of the big cats in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Preserve of Belize in Central America. The study demonstrates a novel and noninvasive technique for identifying the landscape use and conservation ...

Into the Unknown: NASA Space Laser Provides Answers to a Rainforest Canopy Mystery

The space laser GEDI has allowed researchers to 3D map Earth's rainforests for the first time ever, helping us understand the forest canopy and providing vital information for understanding Earth's carbon cycle and how it is ...

Multiple Uses of Tropical Mosaic Landscapes

Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use. How people make use of these different ecosystems, with their particular plant communities, was unclear until now. Researchers, many of them from Madagascar, have now investigated this. When considering biodiversity, ...
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Forest Protection and Carbon Dioxide Stored in Biomass

A study has found that worldwide protected forests have an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon stored in their above-ground biomass compared to ecologically similar unprotected ...

Coastal Ecosystems Are a Net Greenhouse Gas Sink, New Research Shows

A new greenhouse gas budget shows coastal ecosystems globally are a net greenhouse gas sink for carbon dioxide (CO2) but emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) counteract some of the CO2 ...

Wildfire Spread Risk Increases Where Trees, Shrubs Replace Grasses

A new study found that as woody plants like shrubs and trees replace herbaceous plants like grasses, spot fires can occur farther away from the original fire ...

African Smoke Over the Amazon

Up to two-thirds of the soot above the central Amazon rainforest originates in Africa. Researchers differentiate soot particles using their relative properties and attribute them to their respective ...

We Now Know Exactly What Happens in Nature When We Fell Forests

Deforestation is the biggest threat to the planet's ecosystems, and new research has now mapped out exactly what happens when agriculture replaces ...

Human Ancestors Preferred Mosaic Landscapes and High Ecosystem Diversity

A new study finds that early human species adapted to mosaic landscapes and diverse food resources, which would have increased our ancestor's resilience to past shifts in ...

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Beetles and Their Biodiversity in Dead Wood

Which energy type promotes the biodiversity of beetles living in dead wood in the forest? That depends entirely on where the beetles are in the food ...

Can a City Store as Much Carbon as a Forest?

A new tool helps show how growing cities can remain carbon ...

Exploring the Underground Connections Between Trees

Fungal networks interconnecting trees in a forest is a key factor that determines the nature of forests and their response to climate change. These networks have also been viewed as a means for trees ...

Mushrooms and Their Post-Rain, Electrical Conversations

Certain types of fungi can communicate with each other via electrical signals. But much remains unknown about how and when they do so. A group of researchers recently headed to the forest to measure ...

Ecosystem Evolution in Africa

New research pushes back the oldest evidence of C4 grass-dominated habitats in Africa -- and globally -- by more than 10 million years, with important implications for primate evolution and the ...

How the Amazon Rainforest Is Likely to Cope With the Effect of Future Drought

A major collaboration involving 80 scientists from Europe and South America has identified the regions of the Amazon rainforest where trees are most likely to face the greatest risk from drier ...

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Companies' Zero-Deforestation Commitments Have Potential to Halve Cattle-Driven Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon

Study shows better adoption and implementation of company supply chain policies for Brazilian beef and leather could significantly reduce carbon ...

The Diversity of Present Tree Species Is Shaped by Climate Change in the Last 21,000 Years

A new global survey of 1000 forest areas shows how climate change since the peak of the last ice age has had a major impact on the diversity and distribution of tree species we see today. The results ...

Trees in Areas Prone to Hurricanes Have Strong Ability to Survive Even After Severe Damage

The island of Dominica took a direct hit from Category 5 Hurricane Maria. Nine months afterward, researchers found that while 89% percent of trees located in nine previously documented forest stands ...

US Forests Face an Unclear Future With Climate Change

Climate change might compromise how permanently forests are able to store carbon and keep it out of the air. In a new study, researchers found that the regions most at risk to lose forest carbon ...

Gone for Good? California's Beetle-Killed, Carbon-Storing Pine Forests May Not Come Back

Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada that were wiped out by western pine beetles during the 2012-2015 megadrought won't recover to pre-drought densities, reducing an important storehouse ...

Insect Decline Also Occurs in Forests

The number of insects has been declining for years. This has already been well documented for agricultural areas. In forests, however, temporal trends are mostly studied for insect species that are ...

Can Cities Make Room for Woodpeckers?

Researchers are deploying the latest mapping techniques to identify the most important suburban habitat for North America's largest woodpecker. Wildlife habitat in congested places is becoming ...

Why Are Forests Turning Brown in Summer?

European forests are increasingly turning brown in the course of hot, dry summers. In the scorching summer of 2022, Europe experienced more trees turning brown than ever, with 37% of temperate and ...

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