Agricultural and Forestry Science

U-Michigan Ecologists: No Magic Bullet for Coffee Rust Eradication

Instead, management practices focused on maintaining the complex web of ecological interactions among coffee plantation organisms—including insects, fungi,…

Increase in Hemlock Forest Offsetting the Effect of Invasive Hemlock Woolly Adelgid — at Least for Now

The key word is “appear,” said Talbot Trotter, the study’s lead author and a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station.In…

UM Study Finds Wolf Predation of Cattle Affects Calf Weight in Montana

The study found that wolves living on the landscape with cattle have no effect on herd weight, but once a ranch has a confirmed wolf kill, average calf weight…

Swiss Federal Government and University of Bern set up centre of excellence for animal health

The former Institute of Veterinary Virology of the Vetsuisse Faculty at the University of Bern was integrated into the Federal Institute of Virology and…

Trees grow faster and store more carbon as they age

The finding that most trees' growth accelerates as they age suggests that large, old trees may play an unexpectedly dynamic role in removing carbon from the…

Minimising water use, maintaining productivity

Climate change will lead to regional water shortages. If the use of river water is not regulated, both water quality and biodiversity could be negatively…

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