Old-growth forests are rare – less than 7% of the area of U.S. forests today – and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the U.S., it will not be enough to protect just ...

The last few years have provided us with a new level of understanding of how chromosomes are replicated, segregated and read - and how their 3D organisation influences expression of individual genes ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the agency that brought the continent's largest cervid to North Park in 1978, insists it has ...

Chinese researchers have recently unveiled the impact of changes in plant phenology on the stability of the alpine ...

An aerial drone photo taken on April 28, 2024 shows a view of the Kanbula National Geopark in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest ...

Rock outcrops, long regarded as passive geological features, may play an active and crucial role in shaping soil function in mountain ecosystems, according to a new study published on March 31 in ...

Producers and landowners are often faced with tough choices when, under current market conditions, maintaining grassland ecosystems makes ecological but not economic sense. Payment for ecosystem ...

In addition to the two nasal bones that form the strong vault at the top center of your nose, surrounding bones and other structures help support your facial features and nasal functions: The bony ...

Most neurons that carry signals regarding movement and higher-level functions, such as thinking and reading ... Interneurons have a multipolar structure that allows them to receive multiple signals ...

Although much of the surrounding area in hilly Iowa County consists of pastures for beef cattle and contoured hay and cornfields, it was also once home to ecosystems of grasslands and oak savannas. As ...

Whoever has prepared such a preposterous justification has no idea of how natural ecosystems function. Does a forest only consist of trees? What about the shrubs, herbs, and grasses that ...

Some of the largest impacts are through the drainage or conversion of wetlands to cultivated land and the disturbance of ecosystem functions due to heavy machinery use or livestock presence.