A new study argues that temperate zones are hotbeds of evolution, not tropical areas as conventionally held. The research, published in the March 16 issue of the journal Science, says that species do ...

No so long ago, any suggestion that bamboo might make a fine addition to the garden might automatically provoke this reaction: "Be afraid -- be very afraid." In the popular imagination, this oversized ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The influence of regional and local processes on community structure is a major focus of ecology. Classically, ecologists have used ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Postglacial vegetation dynamics reflects global warming and cooling as these occur in normal progression through precession cycle. It also ...

THIS month's number of the Nineteenth Century contains an article on the connection of rainfall with the eleven years' cycle of sun-spots. It takes a carefully-selected area in which such a ...

Picture a tropical rainforest, with thousands of species per hectare, and it’s quite easy to believe that up to three quarters of all plant and animal species are found in the tropics. But what makes ...

A map showing North America's tropical-to-temperate transition zone. Red, orange and yellow depict the more tropical zones, and blues depict the more temperate zones, based on the coldest recorded ...

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