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Lindsay Gordon

Eating Like a Bird Promotes Plant Health, Increases Biomass : TreeHugger - 0 views

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    "New research indicates that the middle [of the food chain] -small insectivorous birds and lizards-are critically important to overall health of an ecosystem, and actually help promote greater biomass." "Gruner and a team of other researchers looked at more than 100 studies insect predation by birds, bats or lizards and found that, regardless of the predator in question, their presence was associated with a 40 percent reduction in damage to plants. In turn, a healthy population of insectivores was linked to a 14 percent increase in plant biomass."
Patrick Thornton

Environmentalists and locals win fight against coal plant in Borneo - 0 views

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    The State and Federal government announced today that they would "pursue other alternative sources of energy, namely gas, to meet Sabah's power supply needs." Proposed for an undeveloped beach on the north-eastern coast of Borneo, the coal plant, according to critics, would have threatened the Coral Triangle, one of the world's most biodiverse marine ecosystems, and Tabin Wildlife Reserve, home to Critically Endangered Sumatran rhinos and Bornean orangutans. Local fishermen feared that discharges from the plant would have imperiled their livelihood.
Patrick Thornton

Indonesia to plant and restore vast area of forest to reach emissions target - 0 views

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    Indonesia will rehabilitate degraded forests and plant millions of hectares of new forests to meet its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent from projected levels by 2020, reports Reuters.
Lindsay Gordon

News - Red List of endangered species needs to be tripled, say ecologists - The Ecologist - 0 views

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    Current conservation list criticised for being biased towards vertebrates and neglecting most plants, fungi and invertebrates.
Lindsay Gordon

New Nature Conservancy atlas aims to show the state of the world's ecosystems (Washingt... - 0 views

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    Maps in the new Atlas of Global Conservation show the diversity of bird, animal and plant species populations, which are among 80 that scientists have produced for a comprehensive look at the planet's eco-regions. The maps crosses three types of habitats that exist: terrestrial, freshwater, and marine.
Patrick Thornton

Lower Biodiversity Means Fewer Bees - Restricted Diet Weakens Their Immune System - 0 views

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    "Apparently bees' immune systems are healthier when they are fed pollen from a wider variety of plants than when they eat only one thing."
Patrick Thornton

Giant fish help grow the Amazon rainforest - 0 views

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    The seed dispersal activities of many animals is essential for the Amazon and other forests, because, as Anderson explains: "plants rely on the seed dispersal activities of these animals (i.e. birds, bats, monkeys, tapirs, rodents, and fish) to move seeds away from the mother tree to good sites for germination […] For pioneer species like Cecropia (a genus of tree that we studied), seeds might need light gaps to germinate-that is, seeds might have very specific requirements for germination."
Patrick Thornton

Six wild boar to aid the regeneration of ancient forest in Scotland - 0 views

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    "Forres-based charity Trees for Life will keep the six animals in a 30.4 acre enclosure on its Dundreggan Estate in Glen Moriston, Inverness-shire. It hopes the boar will control the spread of bracken which shades out other wild plants. Once a native species, the mammal was hunted to extinction in the UK by the 13th Century. "
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