With no land mammals to eat and disperse them, New Zealand’s truffle-like fungi mimic fallen fruit to attract birds. But with so many of those birds now extinct, can ecosystems adapt?
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For trees, growing to maturity involves much more than just reaching upward.
Forests around the world will need to shift their ranges to adapt to climate change. But many trees and plants rely on animals to spread their seeds widely, and those partners are declining.
A barrier built to stop human migrants will instead cut off animals and scientific cooperation.
As governments and corporations pledge to help the planet by planting trillions of trees, a new study spotlights an effective, low-cost alternative: letting tropical forests regrow naturally.
The Tongass National Forest in Alaska, a focus of political battles over old-growth logging and road-building in forests for decades, has received new protection from the Biden administration.
Research measuring how water flows between living kauri trees and a leafless stump adds evidence that trees use their underground root systems to support each other.
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Adjunct, Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Warsaw
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Professor of Biology and Director of Białowieża Geobotanical Station, University of Warsaw
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Associate professor of Plant Science, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
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Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Functional Ecology, Wageningen University
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Tropical Forest Scientist, Forests & Societies Research Unit, Cirad
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Professor of Environmental Science, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
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Professor of ecology, Aarhus University
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Biogeography Research Leader, Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Research scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Assistant Professor of Global Change Biology, Aarhus University
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor Emeritus of Silviculture and Forest Management, University of Tennessee