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Hurricanes help speed-up forests’ adaptation to warmer temperatures

10 October 2022

A recent study by Dr Edmund Tanner and colleagues shows that damage caused to forests by hurricanes in Jamaica enables lower-altitude, warmer-temperature-loving species to fill the gaps, and helps the forest adapt to the rising temperatures that result from climate change. hurricane-...

DNA techniques reveal new and unusual tulip species - Tulipa toktogulica – from Kyrgyzstan

28 September 2022

DNA techniques reveal new and unusual tulip species - Tulipa toktogulica – from Kyrgyzstan Taxonomists in the Department of Plant Sciences and the University Botanic Garden, in partnership with colleagues from the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic in Kyrgyzstan, have discovered a new and unusual tulip...

New grants to boost understanding of how pathogens exploit their plant hosts and how plants resist attack

27 September 2022

New grants to boost understanding of how pathogens exploit their plant hosts and how plants resist attack Professor John Carr and colleagues in the Plant Virology and Molecular Plant Pathology Group at the Department of Plant Sciences have been awarded new grants from the Leverhulme Trust and UKRI’s Biology and...

Sarab Sethi and colleague in the forest canopy

Listening from afar: a hands-off approach to monitoring biodiversity

14 September 2022

A new, hands-off approach to monitoring biodiversity is saving time and money, and helping to identify sites where intervention is most needed. Close your eyes and imagine the sounds on a busy city street. Now imagine the sounds in a forest. Even if you can’t identify specific noises in the mix, the overall sound has...

Controlled burning of natural environments could help offset carbon emissions

4 January 2022

Planting trees and suppressing wildfires does not necessarily maximise the carbon storage of natural ecosystems. A new study , published by Dr Adam Pellegrini, Head of the Department's Disturbance Ecology and Ecosystem Function Group , has found that prescribed burning can actually lock in or increase carbon in the soils...

Hurricanes help speed-up forests’ adaptation to warmer temperatures

DNA techniques reveal new and unusual tulip species - Tulipa toktogulica – from Kyrgyzstan

New grants to boost understanding of how pathogens exploit their plant hosts and how plants resist attack

Listening from afar: a hands-off approach to monitoring biodiversity

Controlled burning of natural environments could help offset carbon emissions

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