Botanists develop a model for times when a plant thriving in a garden is a matter of life and death
A new model can help botanic gardens discover where they should source endangered plants when they want to aid conservation efforts.
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Climate change will hit peat bogs not so much from greater heat but from the reduced precipitation that comes with the heat
Climate change is about more than simply warming, and these other effects should not be overlooked.
Increasing the copies of genes increases the ecological niche that nettles can thrive in
Botanists find it’s easier to find the gene to cope with a problem if you carry more copies of genes.
Snow cover is reducing in the Pacific Northwest, and so too is the niche for evergreen trees in the region
Snow cover can delay the growing season of plants, but reducing it can also have negative consequences.
Evolutionary history of two rare conifers from the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
This study sheds light on the evolution of two endemic juniper species from the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and their responses to Quaternary climate fluctuations
Estimating genetic variation in seed collections using seed morphology
Can variation in seed morphological traits allow us to estimate genetic variation in seed banks of vulnerable plant species?
Trees alone will not save us
There’s more recognition that ecological restoration can be an essential tool in fighting climate change, and there are many projects aimed at restoring degraded forests to capture carbon. Still, the focus on forests ignores much of the land in the tropics that would not naturally be forested. A tea
Reconstructing trees from terrestrial laser scans
A new algorithm supports the detailed reconstruction of a variety of trees from a small amount of input data.
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