Hay Abejas Que Sólo Quieren ver Arder la Pradera
Artículo escrito por Cypress Novick y editado por Lauren Otolski 13 de diciembre 2023. Tranducido por Christina Andrea Alvear y
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Las Algas Andan de Mal Humor
Las floraciones de algas nocivas son un fenómeno cada vez más frecuente, pero pueden mitigarse con la ayuda de una nueva solución sorprendente.
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How Can Pesticides Affect the Development of Aquatic Life?
Agriculture uses pesticides to maintain continuous food production. But what is the effect of these chemicals on aquatic animals? With this in mind, researchers from Brazil collaborated to study the effect of one of the most used pesticides in the country on zebrafish.
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How Can We Protect Salmon from Climate Warming? It Depends on the River
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are sensitive to changes in temperature. To survive, salmon must be adaptable, particularly in a warming and increasingly unpredictable climate. However, little is known about how this culturally valuable fish responds to dramatic changes in temperature.
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The Trouble with Trawling: the Massive Carbon Footprint of Bottom Trawling
In addition to being terrible for biodiversity, bottom trawling releases a huge amount carbon from the sea floor. Researchers have quantified this previously obscure source of emissions, with the total roughly equal to those released annually by Argentina.
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Climbing to Survive: Ants in the Rainforest Canopy May Be Resistant to Effects of Climate Change
Climate doesn’t just change across different biomes – even a single tree can have multiple climates. How do the canopy and forest floor differ in their climate, and how does this impact species at these locations?
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Reef Remodeling: How Reef Carpets Could Change How We View Reef Restoration
Coral reefs are one of the most important marine ecosystems in the world, but climate change and other stressors are pushing on their wellbeing and leading to degradation. That’s where reef restoration comes in, where scientists and volunteers work to reproduce tiny corals and transplant them onto degraded reefs—but this restoration mostly focused on survivability, and not variety. In a new approach, a group of scientists have constituted what they call “Reef Carpets”, which are patches of restoration efforts filled with biodiversity. They found that these “Carpets” jumpstart a whole reef ecosystem, leading to better outcomes in the long run.
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These Bat Teeth Were Made for Chompin’: An Evolutionary History of Bat Teeth
Featured Image Caption: Bats like the Honduran White Bat (Ectophylla alba) pictured above eat fruits, primarily figs, using their short
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¿Por Qué Hay Baba En Este Maíz? El Experimento Salado
Aproximadamente la mitad de las tierras de cultivo del mundo sufren estrés salino. Encontrar formas de mejorar el rendimiento de los cultivos es de gran importancia. El uso de bacterias que producen biopelículas para proteger las plantas en condiciones adversas puede ser una solución sostenible.
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Why is There Slime in This Corn? The Salty Experiment
Roughly half of cropland is salt stressed worldwide. Finding ways to enhance crop yield is of great importance. Using bacteria that produce biofilms to protect plants under harsh conditions may be a sustainable solution.
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