Ecosystems
Expanding forests can be bad news for the environment
You might think that increasing forest cover is good news in Brazil, but that’s not always the case, according to a new study.
Ecosystems
China to buy biodiversity?
Study says compensation schemes could help regrowth of biodiverse forests on collectively owned land
Ecosystems
Climate change could increase biodiversity – if a location already has biodiversity
Climate change could increase biodiversity with a couple of provisos, and those provisos are important.
Ecosystems
How a misunderstanding over diet created an ecocide
For years the tale of how the inhabitants of Easter Island depleted their soils and destroyed their ecosystem has been a cautionary tale for western civilisation. There’s just one problem with this as a historical warning – it seems that it never happened.
Ecosystems
The State of The World’s Plants 2017
Orchids top the list for most traded, and endangered, plant families. This is according to the new Kew Gardens State of The World’s Plants report
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State of Nature report impresses. State of Nature itself does not.
Every so often there’ll be a news story like the massive decline in hedgehogs. The population is down by a third since the millennium. It’
Ecosystems
The Botany of Bushfires
Australia is going through a severe heatwave at the moment. So severe that the Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has added two new colours to their
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Erosion control, Grevillea and the hills around Aksum, northern Ethiopia – videoblog
Erosion is the most environmentally destructive process. Our videoblog shows planting and watering of Grevillea on hillsides in Ethiopia to control soil loss.
Ecosystems
Stochastic Modelling in Ecosystems
Predicting ecosystems responses under changing environment conditions is one of the major challenges in ecology. It is rendered more complex by the non-linear dynamics which
Ecosystems
Ecosystems, services and understanding human-environment relations
Ecosystem services are not a meaningful framework of interpretation of human-environment relations for the vast majority of people, although the term has gained traction in
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Secret to Saving Money is Biodiversity
Biodiversity could be the secret to creating a successful “green roof” according to new research published in the April issue of Annals of Botany. The research,
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Is the earliest wine getting earlier and earlier?
There’s been a rash of stories about how new grape varieties will be needed to fight disease if wineries are to keep flowing. As far