The metric puts plants and algae, which make their own food, at trophic level 1. Rabbits,
which eat plants, occupy level 2. Foxes, which eat herbivores, sit at trophic level 3. Cod, a fish that eats other fish, claims level 4. Polar bears and orcas,
Plant killers protect rainforest diversityvoracious pests may be foes of individual plants, but they can benefit forests.
A study in the humid rainforests of Belize shows that plant-killing fungi can help preserve diversity in such ecosystems.
provides experimental support for a leading ecological hypothesis on why any given plant species does not take over in species-rich forests.
That proposal the Janzen-Connell hypothesis posits that as the population of a plant species grows,
Those pests then keep dominant plants in check giving other species room to flourish.""The more common a plant is,
the more aggressively it is attacked, says Keith Clay, a plant ecologist at Indiana University in Bloomington,
who was not involved with the study.""It s a mechanism for maintaining diversity. Since the Janzen-Connell hypothesis was proposed more than 40 years ago,
many research teams have gathered evidence that plant-munching insects and other predators keep populations of plant species in check.
But few were able to establish that this mechanism also boosted plant diversity, says Clay.
Owen Lewis, an ecologist at the University of Oxford, UK, and his colleagues decided to test the hypothesis experimentally.
dried grasses and other indigestible plant matter could greatly improve the efficiency of converting waste biomass to fuel.
with the hope of attracting investors for a larger plant 4 or 5 years down the line.
A firm called Beta Renewables opened a cellulosic-ethanol plant in Crescentino, northern Italy, and another company, INEOS Bio, started up a facility near Vero Beach in Florida.
and Brazil either using enzymes to break up plant material into fermentable sugars, or applying extremely high temperatures to break down biomass into syngas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide).
10 16 january 2014industrial blast An explosion at a chemical plant in Japan on 9 Â January killed 5 and injured 12.
but the rule would effectively require new coal-fired plants to capture and sequester about 40%of their emissions a feat that many industry officials have criticized as technologically infeasible.
Smithsonian head Plant pathologist Eva Pell announced on 8 Â January that she will step down as undersecretary for science at the Smithsonian Institution in WASHINGTON DC,
and health estimates down to the level of rows of plants. Such detail could inform decisions on fertilizer and irrigation use,
Generating Plant (pictured) near Waynesboro, Georgia, it said on 19 Â February. The reactors are the first new nuclear facilities to be constructed in the United states in nearly 30 years.
Competition from natural gas and renewable energy as well as safety concerns have prompted several US nuclear plants to shut in the past year.
The department closed the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New mexico, after an underground air-monitoring system detected radiation on 14 Â February.
raised the possibility of controlled discharges of pretreated water in its road map towards decommissioning the plant,
and the need to modify plants to meet emission limits that take effect in April 2015.
85 plants with a combined capacity of 10.2 Â gigawatts were retired in 2012. Satnav success Europe s fledgling satellite navigation system, Galileo, is working well,
says Patrick Shafroth, a plant ecologist with the US Geological Survey in Fort Collins, Colorado.
More than 1, 000 construction workers toiled to complete the ethanol plant near the town of Hugoton,
By June, the plant will begin processing the stover into ethanol, which will be blended with petrol
The plant, which is owned by multi  national company Abengoa of Seville, Spain, is one of three US facilities that should start commercial production of cellulosic ethanol in the next few months (the others are both in Iowa,
which has helped to fund the plants. The challenges have pushed already some researchers and companies towards an alternative approach that converts cellulose into hydrocarbon fuels using chemical rather than biological processes.
With more than 200 operating plants, the corn-ethanol industry is established well in the United states. Its dramatic growth has been driven by tax credits
Hence the scale of Abengoa s processing facility, much larger and more expensive than any corn-ethanol plant.
A cellulosic-ethanol plant s capital costs are roughly twice those of a corn-ethanol plant,
Enerkem plans to build similar plants in Mississippi and Quebec next year, and it is partnering with Waste Management in Houston,
Thermochemical processes are also key to the first two commercial cellulosic plants in the United states,
Both plants are currently idle, pending upgrades. Haq thinks that longer-lived catalysts will further reduce the costs of thermo  chemically produced cellulosic hydrocarbons in coming years.
and last July it opened a demonstration plant near Salamanca, Spain, to do just that. Abengoa hopes that this technology will eventually allow it to expand its US operations beyond the corn belt.
Radiation leak The US Department of energy reported on 26 february that 13 employees had tested positive for low-level radiation exposure following a leak at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New mexico.
We're now finding out that bees are important to the health of millions of plants
Plants pack in plenty of energy about half as much as coal. People don t often think of burning trees to make electricity
The program will also send trees to the plant that are infested not yet but are in danger of catching
Some environmental groups such as the council are worried also about the Forest Service encouraging logging for biomass plants.
Some will be used for plants but not the rest. Frosttty you talk about cherry picking data but its the climate change fanatics who are doing so.
The workers at the space station use the water for drinking and growing plants. This water is part of them.
Modern Farmer has a feature today covering ongoing research into growing edible plants in space.
The excerpts from American astronaut Don Pettit's writings about a zucchini plant he brought to space not for food but just for fun.
or virus that will then be delivered in small amounts to the plants they already pollinate.
The new plants are designed to combat wheat stem rust a fungus that used to take out a fifth of the U s.'wheat crop at once during epidemics through the 1950s.
After their first plantings they may keep some of the grains to plant as next year's crops.
The plant is not radioactive it s only accelerated evolution with human selection. The wisdom in human selection is the greatest risk factor here. tmarti69 As the Earth is currently in the beginnings of a magnetic polar flip with a ongoing to zero reduction of magnetic field more wild life will be subject to the the sun comsic radays
Plant Biochemistry: An Onion Enzyme that Makes the Eyes Water S. Imai N. Tsuge M. Tomotake Y. Nagatome H. Sawada T. Nagata and H. Kumagai Nature vol
But all green plants also carry a set of chemicals called carotenoids. On their own these look yellow or orange carotenoids give color to corn and carrots for example but they re invisible beneath the chlorophyllic green of a leaf for most of the year.
Grocery stores are based full of plant substitutes the Boca and Gardenburgers of the world not to mention Asian staples like tofu and seitan.
âÂ#Âoefor the millennia of our sojourn On earth we have been getting more than enough protein from entirely plant-based sources.
âÂ# To Barnard the simple conclusion is that everyone should stick to eating plants
Seed dispersal by animals is important for plants to help them occupy new areas of land.
and showed that 13 of 18 species ate fruit of some sort and a wide variety of plants.
Using animals as a method of seed dispersal is actually a useful form of mutualism âÂ#Âthe plants get to spread their genes
and are able to digest it thanks to gut bacteria that ferments and breaks down the plant product.
Genetically modifying plants is exactly the same thing You contradict yourself over and over. Engineered Golden Rice May be planted Soon In Philippines By Francie Diep Posted on 8. 6. 2013 19 Comments 8. 8. 2013 at 09:
Companies that supply wood plant more than enough trees to cover very high future growth. It takes so long for trees to mature they really don't have a choice.
So why is sex nearly universal across animals plants and fungi? Shouldn't natural selection favor animals that forgo draining displays
This article originally appeared in the May 2011 issue of Popular Science magazine. plants can clone however
Asexual reproduction that some plants participate in is precisely biological cloning. Well I can't agree with aerosphere
While an all meat diet is possibly as is an all plant diet we do best with variety.
The plant eaters main reason for avoiding eating meat falls into their'animal cruelty'category.
I guess they're not so picky with plant life. Save the tress eat the cabbage. lol.
we are omnivores-we can SURVIVE on ether plant or animal food. We may not be perfectly healthy
When i saw the title i was already expecting to see some vegetarian brainwashing post about how you need plants
Plants thrive on CO2. A note about the power plant in the picture. It's the Intermountain Power plant in Delta Utah one of the biggest coal-fired power plants in the United states run by the Los angeles Department of Water and Power.
I'd believe that desertification by destruction of plants would be a larger cause than burning fossil fuels. jefro there's an undeniable cause of climate change!
when harvesting the plants that I consume daily especially given the raw amount that I consume (which would likely be proportionally higher than a non-vegetarian).*
And if you can have healthier plants and save water to boot-who cares about a little extra hair r
#Farmers Rip up Experimental Golden Rice Plants In The Philippinesa decade and a half after it was invented first genetically engineered rice may soon grow in farmer's fields for the first time in the Philippines.
and ripped up 400 experimental plants Philippine tabloid paper Remate reported yesterday. It was all over in 15 minutes Malaya Business Insight reports.
The protesting farmers uprooted nearly all of the plants in one field so that one field test can't continue according to a statement from the Philippine Rice Research Institute.
Groups such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the World health organization support the testing of new GMO plants as they're developed as each could affect human health differently.
and splicing to modify existing strains of plants we grow for food. Corn being the easiest to name.
They did not introduce alien genetic material into plants or animals Like so many lies the safety of genetically modified food relies on yet other lies.
and ripped up 400 experimental plants Philippine tabloid paper Remate reported yesterday...Generally speaking I was always under the impression a tabloid was considered not a reliable source of information e
A GMO is a plant or animal that has been modified genetically through the addition of a small amount of genetic material from other organisms through molecular techniques.
The majority of GMO plants are made to resist you know who's herbicide. The local plants are now growing immune to the herbicide.
II doubt this massive experiment will prove any better than lead paint or asbestos. Contrary to what poor old misguided Joe up there says there have been over 600 studies published over a 30 year period in numerous respected scientific journals by various experts in the relevant field in good standing.
and dust storms redistributed that dirt around the globe Meanwhile glaciers began extending from near the poles grinding rocks soil plants
The term soil is used usually to describe a more organic compound that's broken down plants and animals and fungi.
Plants animals whatever it eats to survive. Where did that come from? On and on and on until finally you say it came from the constituent elements that are 3. 9 billion years old.
had placed the Japanese those plants and barracks outside of the cities we would have been able to chose a worthwhile target with far fewer casualties.
Opponents worry that the rice will cross-pollinate with non-modified plants which they say has unknown consequences.
what may become to the long term effects to humans or plant and animal life. I didn't watch Fox news today
And yes cross-pollination with other plants has unknown consequences. You get different strains of plants.
In the fruit and vegetable industry that's a good thing. Plant scientists experiment with crossing plants all the time to encourage strains that will yield fruit with more desirable characteristics.
A lot of the food we eat today comes from plants that were pollinated cross or were hybrids at one time.
Genetically modifying plants is exactly the same thing but with more precision and more carefully selectable outcomes.
Genetically modifying plants is exactly the same thingit's NOT exactly the same thing. At all.
We have crossed never a fish or bacteria with a plant through natural means though. If you can't see the difference...
or plant reproduces. Domesticated animals and cultivated crops are genetically different from the wild varieties they were derived from
How do you get a strawberry or any other plant to breed with a fish?
Genetic engineering allows scientists to cross the species barrier mixing genetic material among of animals plants and microorganism.
Genetically modifying plants is exactly the same thingyou contradict yourself over and over. You seem to have a malfunction in your reading-comprehension circuits...
Deserts with their lack of plant cover are terrible at doing the same thing. Key to this process is carbon sequestration.
Plants sequester some of the carbon dioxide they breathe in storing it in their branches and trunk and roots as well as depositing some in the soil they live in offsetting somewhat the carbon dioxide increase in the atmosphere.
The paper suggests planting Jatropha curcas in the desert along the coast of the Arabian peninsula setting up a desalination plant to provide the water needed for irrigation
and then letting the plants start sequestering carbon and eventually producing biofuel. A potential unintended side-effect of such a project is a chance of increased cloud cover and rainfall.
Of course in order to be successful you will need to cover huge parts of the desert with these plants
Widspread use of toxic plants would restore the soil retain moisture that would otherwise run off instantly return that moisture to the atmospehre
Invasive plant species? How about Corn Potatoes and Wheat...Is that invasive enough for you?
{4}+ i epsilonthe desalination plants to provide water for the trees need to be powered by solar or some other renewable energy source.
a key proponent is the plants aspiration rate. If you can't grow a forest bring a forest to the city. note:
and you with your*ahem*English degree know more about the plants and animals (and conservation models and ecological history and etc. etc.)
A terrible disease Scientific American calls it the most devastating disease of citrus plants in the world is spreading in the U s. Five years from now there may be no more Florida orange juice one University of Florida scientist J
The plant illness called citrus greening makes trees drop their leaves and stunts their fruit.
They told me the berry industry meticulously breeds new plant types in the old-fashioned way it involves brushing pollen from one plant onto another using a tiny paintbrush
AND anaerobic decomposition as you would get with buried plant matter would produce methane which is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
I suppose the new plant growth in the area previously covered by the river could offset that
All vegetation (trees brush plants) are killed in this pond area created. Wildlife/insects in this newly created pond area move
and most plants would die in a few weeks. Large trees however could survive for several decades thanks to slow metabolism and substantial sugar stores.
since plants will stop photosynthesizing immediately and this will affect the supply of food âÂ#Âoeon handã¢Â#Â
while ramping up major production of LFTR modular nuclear plants. Once you've got sufficient power online and enough resources to create a self-sustaining underground mining operation a civilization could theoretically thrive indefinitely underground without ever revisiting the surface again.
Plants incorporate carbon into their roots stems and leaves as they grow. Animals then get that carbon from eating plants
or eating animals that eat plants. Other research groups have used the Cold war spike in carbon-14 to figure out the birthdates of human brain cells fat cells and teeth.
The main tenant of the new plan involves setting federal standards limiting carbon pollution from both new and existing power plants
Satellite imagery shows that greater concentrations of CO2 in the last century have led to improved plant production globally.
Other Phytophthora species are able to infect almost all of the fruit and nut trees people plant around the world.
and who knows other farm plants like this article juniper trees too...Filipino discovers cure for dreaded banana diseases...
it helps the plant heal itself. The treatment system works a lot like how probiotic drinks such as Yakult that classic kids'favorite work in humans.
The Moko-Panama disease treatment system is administered by first injecting the affected plants and surrounding plants with a proprietary clay mineral extract.
By making the soil ph neutral it makes it easier for the plants to absorb nutrients.
When the infected plants absorb nutrient better they become healthier and better at fighting off the infection.
Conditioning the soil also prepares the plants for the next step of the treatment process. When the soil is in good condition (neutral ph high oxygen levels rich in minerals) it encourages the growth of beneficial microorganisms.
Dr. Dela Cruz explains âÂ#Âoein those stages the vascular system of the plant has been damaged beyond repair.
The plants and soil come out healthier after treatment And there s no risk of contaminating the bananas with harmful pesticides.
Most plants that have spines like cacti use them for protection but it's theorized that Puya chilensis actually uses them for hunting.
This plant is sometimes known as a sheep-eating plant which is not strictly speaking accurate: it is not a carnivorous plant like the well-known pitcher plant
and decompose at the base of the plant providing highly rich localized food for the plant.
It's not a particularly rare plant; it's in the news now because for the first time horticulturists in England have coaxed it to bloom 15 years after planting it.
What a grim plant indeed! I feel so sad for the animals it catches...I am not secretly eavesdropping on you.
We also have the stunning blue Puya berteroniana. 1. Good and evil do not exist-this is a plant that wants to survive just like those sheep eat grass to survive-news flash-they KILL the grass.
and so this plant is evil in my heart! wonder i feel like u wouldn't feel that way
and now everyone is growing the Zombie Plant at home because its plays DEAD when you Touch it!..
while separated from the rest of the plant. That's why you can pick a rose off its bush
and dark the way whole plants respond to cycles of day and night. Those veggies that were exposed to light-dark cycles were more resistant to insects
and produced natural chemicals normally made for plant defense that may be healthful for humans. The biologists from Rice university in Texas and the University of California at Davis performed a series of experiments on Arabidopsis thaliana plants exposed to 12-hour cycles of light and dark.
They found that the plants make natural insect repellant chemicals called glucosinolates during the light hours. The glucosinolates seemed to discourage caterpillars from munching on leaves.
Plants grown in light-dark cycles that matched the caterpillars'got munched on less than plants grown in light-dark cycles that didn't match the caterpillars'.
'That's because the out-of-sync plants thought it was night when the insects thought it was day so the plants weren't making as much glucosinolates as they would during the day
but the insects were awake and eating away. The biologists then tried the same experiment but instead of using whole plants they used circular discs cut out from cabbage leaves.
It turned out that the discs even though they were cut off from the rest of the plant still made glucosinolates in day-night cycles
as long as they were exposed to alternating periods of light and dark. And the glucosinolates worked. Caterpillars ate 20 percent more of out-of-sync cabbage leaves than they did of in-sync cabbage leaves Caterpillars also ate more of cabbage leaves that were kept in constant light
or darkness with no day-night cycling at all. The hungry hungry caterpillar-repelling effect worked for about a week after the cabbage was harvested the biologists discovered.
These plants aren't in the same family as Arabidopsis and cabbage so they don't make glucosinolates
Nevertheless it's cool to know that all those carrots lying quietly on their shelves are actually doing live plant biochemistry
Surveys done in the past few years have found that both types of bees contribute to pollinating U s. crops with native bees playing an especially important role for American plants such as pumpkins blueberries and tomatoes.
Fields on the East Coast and others that are surrounded by some native plants however may be pollinated partly or mostly by native bees.
This article originally listed eggplant as an example of a plant that's native to The americas and better pollinated by native bee.
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what you burn there'd be an imbalance. plant 2 trees for everyone u burn problem solvedburning wood cleanly (syn-gas etc)
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Eat food not too much mostly plants? I want to believe that one drink could be a perfectly balanced diet that it could help
or put plant and animal species at risk: it reduces the planet's natural ability to filter out our garbage in the air.
because CO2 is essential to plant health. So no nothing to be concerned about and remember that humans are only contributing a small amount compared to natural sources. orbit7er you would be happy to know that peak oil is a myth.
What you do see as CO2 levels increase plants thrive growing larger faster and producing larger crops.
We breath out dirty CO2 and the plants greedily and happily suck it in. Plants and animals form a symbiotic relationship you need one for the other to survive.
So no cutting down a tree doesn't release CO2 but killing the tree stops it from scrubbing the CO2 out of the air
Most lumber related industries plant more trees than they cut down. That's not because of government regulations its just good business sense (greed)
#USDA Aims To Grow White rice With All the Nutrients Of Brown Ricein Malaysia there grow four types of rice with more molybdenum a mineral that helps rice plants deal with acidic soil than any other rice On earth.
Breeders create new varieties of rice the old-fashioned way by reproducing only the plants with the genes they want.
and selected for the plants they want for as long as they've farmed. Even identifying and targeting specific genes is a well-known technique that researchers have honed since the 1980s.
or foods rich in Copper (liver oysters lobster and chocolate Adding these minerals naturally by having the plant put them in the grains would improve the health of those persons in less-developed countries who are dependent on rice.
The list includes plants and fungi as well as animals and you can sort the list by location type
Oh but CO2 is good for plants. Can I expect that rebuttal? Frosttty and D37 let's handle the so-called 97%consensus first.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology took dried plants some from as far back as 170 years ago
but this research found that the strain on these dried potato plants is not in fact US-1. It's related
They've named the new strain HERB-1. This is the first time that scientists have decoded the genome of a plant pathogen from dried plants
or the ambiguous gross-sounding protein layer which could be made from milk animals or plants.
So an earlier blooming season for plants may not necessarily mean an earlier end to hibernation to pollinators.
That in turn would affect the reproductive success of those plants. Spring just started a couple weeks ago her in Florida.
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