A team of researchers from the University of Iowa and Rice University has found that crypt-keeper wasps parasitize multiple species of gall wasp. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes ...
Researchers at the University of North Texas have found that two oak tree species, post oak and live oak, that are widespread across the U.S. South remove black carbon from the urban atmosphere. The findings may offer a natural ...
Environment
Sep 6, 2019
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In 2001, forest pathologists in Oregon discovered what was killing trees in Curry County in southwest Oregon—a devastating disease known as sudden oak death. Almost 20 years later, sudden oak death hasn't spread beyond ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2019
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Wood-living beetles that use oak trees are a species-rich and threatened animal group in modern forestry and agriculture in southern Sweden. New research from the University of Gothenburg shows that management with conservation ...
Plants & Animals
May 28, 2019
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Holm oak decline threatens dehesa sustainability. Though the pseudofungus oomycete Phytophthora cinnamomisería is thought to be the main cause of holm oak decline, climate conditions have been shown to influence it, as well. ...
Plants & Animals
May 8, 2019
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Holm oaks are some of the most emblematic trees in Mediterranean forests and the most abundant ones on the Iberian Peninsula. Holm oaks have provided countless applications throughout their hundreds of thousands of years ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2019
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A team from the Institute of Forest Sciences at the University of Freiburg shows that the extraction of ground water for industry and households is increasingly damaging floodplain forests in Europe given the increasing intensity ...
Environment
Mar 19, 2019
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Satellite imagery of earth's vegetation, measurements of carbon dioxide in the air and computer models all help scientists understand how climate is affecting carbon dynamics and the world's forests. But these technologies ...
Environment
Mar 1, 2019
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British oak trees are under threat from a disease known as Acute Oak Decline. Mainly affecting mature trees, it can kill them within four to five years of symptoms appearing. However, while researchers like myself have been ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2019
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North America is home to 91 species of oak trees. Astoundingly, the various species rarely, if ever, occur alone. Where one kind of oak is found, invariably at least one more will be found. How can nature support a setup ...
Ecology
May 14, 2018
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