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.

innovations-report offers informative reports and articles on topics such as climate protection, landscape conservation, ecological systems, wildlife and nature parks and ecosystem efficiency and balance.

CT scans of coral skeletons reveal ocean acidity increases reef erosion

Simultaneously, bioeroders, such as parrotfish and boring marine worms, breakdown the reef structure into rubble and the sand that nourishes our beaches. For…

Grasshoppers signal slow recovery of post-agricultural woodlands, study finds

But even now, the ghosts of land-use past haunt these woods. New research by Philip Hahn and John Orrock at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the recovery…

Next-door leopards: First GPS-collar study reveals how leopards live with people

Study says leopards stay surprisingly close to homes
Leopard home range around humans can be comparable to world's best protected areas…

New study: Aggressive conifer removal benefits Sierra aspen

Most of the aspen stands that dotted the Sierra Nevada less than a century ago are gone or in poor health. Aspen stands can increase groundwater, enrich soils…

Livermore Lab scientists show salinity matters when it comes to sea level changes

“By using long-term observed estimates of ocean salinity and temperature changes across the globe, and contrasting these with model simulations, we have…

Crops play a major role in the annual CO2 cycle increase

But the budget has gotten bigger. Over the last five decades, the magnitude of this rise and fall has grown nearly 50 percent in the Northern Hemisphere, as…

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