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Tree islands more effective way replant the world's forests
2014-01-09 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Worldwide, large swaths of land lay barren in the wake of agricultural expansion, and as global forest cover continues to decline, carbon and water cycles, biodiversity, and human health are impacted. But efforts to restore abandoned pastures and agricultural plots back into functioning forest ecosystems are often hindered by high costs and time requirements. Fortunately, scientists have developed a new method for a more cost effective solution to forest restoration, the establishment of "tree islands."...
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Battle for Survival May Yield the Rain Forests Diversity
2014-01-02 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The diversity of a tropical rain forest can be hard to fathom for people who have not seen one. Three acres of jungle may be home to more than 650 species of trees more species than grow in the entire continental United States and Canada combined. Its tempting to look at all those species living so close together as a picture of peaceful coexistence. But Phyllis D. Coley and Thomas A. Kursar, a husband-and-wife team of ecologists at the University of Utah, see them as war zones. Hordes of insects...
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Florida's mangrove forests expand north with climate change
2013-12-31 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Fewer deep freezes, attributable to Earth's warming climate, have caused mangrove forests to expand northward in Florida over the past three decades, new research suggests. "Mangroves showed the largest increases in regions where cold snaps became less frequent over the past 30 years," study co-author Kyle Cavanaugh, an ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland, wrote in an email. The findings, published today (Dec. 30) in the journal Proceedings of the National...
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Florida's Mangrove Forests Expand with Climate Change
2013-12-30 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Fewer deep freezes, attributable to Earth's warming climate, have caused mangrove forests to expand northward in Florida over the past three decades, new research suggests. "Mangroves showed the largest increases in regions where cold snaps became less frequent over the past 30 years," study co-author Kyle Cavanaugh, an ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland, wrote in an email. The findings, published today (Dec. 30) in the journal Proceedings of the National...
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Timber titan: Buyer of MeadWestvaco tracts sees the forests - and the trees
2013-12-23 13:22:53| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
A publicly traded company with deep pockets and extensive ties to the Puget Sound area is making a splash in the Charleston region by acquiring gobs of land.
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