Source: rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org Published: July 7, 2013 Justin D. Yeakel , Paulo R. Guimarães , Hervé Bocherens and Paul L. Koch Abstract Species interactions form food webs, impacting community structure and, potentially, ecological dynamics. It is likely...
Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Published: June 29, 1988 MIGUEL A. ALTIERI Associate Professor, Division of Biological Control, University of California, Berkeley LAURA C. MERRICK Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis,...
Source: treehugger.com Published: May 12, 2011 NOTE: This article has been updated since its original posting to include more facts (from 12 to 30) CC BY 2.0. Wikimedia Commons By Jaymi Heimbuch Welcome to almost 30 percent of the world’s forest cover. The...
Source: theguardian.com Published: March 20, 2003 Keith Laidler Bambo is one of the most successful plants on earth. With more than 1,500 species colonising a multitude of habitats from sea level to 12,000 feet, bamboo is a phenomenon of the vegetable kingdom. It can...
Source: global.nature.org Published: February 17, 2016 By Justin Adams, Executive Director, Tropical Forest Alliance (Currently seconded to the TFA from The Nature Conservancy) Click here to watch “Natural Climate Solutions”: https://youtu.be/nU0yNgHHH1g Natural...
Source: slate.com Published: September 5, 2013 Some rights reserved by clauretan By Atlas Obscura With dreams of colonizing Mars, John P. Allen, who made his millions in oil, funded the building of Biosphere 2 in the middle of the Arizona desert. (Planet earth is...
Source: bangordailynews.com Published: May 1, 2016 By Julia Bayly WALDOBORO, Maine — When researchers in Scotland needed seeds to grow Bere, a very old barley variety once cultivated for thousands of years in highlands, they looked across the Atlantic to a midcoast...
Source: happycow.net Published: July 20, 2015 “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”— John Muir – image Click here to watch “How Wolves Change Rivers”: https://youtu.be/ysa5OBhXz-Q When wolves were...
Source: mnn.com Published: October 8, 2015 A green sea turtle swims under Midway Island Pier at Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. (Photo: Greg McFall/NOAA) Russell McLendon Earth is on the brink of a sea change. Its oceans are still mostly wild, without the...
Source: mnn.com Published: September 25, 2014 When it’s healthy, kelp grows like a forest on the ocean floor. (Photo: NatalieJean/Shutterstock) Devereaux Bell Many people around the world like to eat urchin. The Japanese, as well as most Americans, know it as...