Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

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Jena Experiment: Loss of species destroys ecosystems

An ecosystem provides humans with natural “services”, such as the fertility of the soil, the quality of the groundwater, the production of food, and…

Species may appear deceptively resilient to climate change

Nature itself can be the best defense against climate change for many species — at least in the short term­ — according to a study published in the journal Ecology Letters…

Scientists team up on study to save endangered African penguins

With less than 25,000 breeding pairs in existence today, it is an uphill battle for the African Penguin, which calls South Africa home. The 60 percent drop in…

Green rooves to reduce the effects of climate change

Researchers from the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Seville have published a study in which they indicate that it…

Climate change: Urban trees are growing faster worldwide

„While the effects of climate change on tree growth in forests have been extensively studied, there is little information available so far for urban trees“,…

Cities can cut greenhouse gas emissions far beyond their urban borders

They calculated the first internationally comparable greenhouse gas footprints for four cities from developed and developing countries: Berlin, New York,…

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