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Safeguarding Massive Trees, Champs of the Ecosystem

Mammoth trees accounted for only 1 percent of trees in a research plot but stored half of the area's biomass, researchers in Yosemite National Park found.
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Animals Bred In Zoos And Reintroduced To The Wild Bring Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria With Them, Research Finds

Issues & Causes / Environmentalism : Planetsave (3 hours ago)

Animals raised in captive breeding programs, and then released into the wild, may transmit antibiotic resistant bacteria to the wild populations, new research on wallabies has found. Specifically, the research found that “endangered... Read Post

With Reef Ecosystems, It May Be All or Nothing

Issues & Causes / Environmentalism : Green (last year)

The most strictly enforced no-take areas in the Mediterranean have the highest fish biomass, researchers found. But they noted no significant differences between areas that allow only limited fishing and those that permit unfettered... Read Post

Handful of heavyweight trees per acre are forest champs

Academics / General Science : Science Codex (last year)

Big trees three or more feet in diameter accounted for nearly half the biomass measured at a Yosemite National Park site, yet represented only one percent of the trees growing there. read more Read Post


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