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ScienceDaily: Nature News

ScienceDaily: Nature News


Scientists move a step closer to understanding species distributions in the face of climate change

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 09:31 AM PDT

Scientists move a step closer to understanding species distributions in the face of climate change.

High-altitude climate change to kill cloud forest plants

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 08:07 AM PDT

Scientists have discovered many tropical, mountaintop plants won't survive global warming, even under the best-case climate scenario. Many of the species they studied will likely not be able to survive in their current locations past 2080 as their high-altitude climate changes, they say.

Where commerce, conservation clash: Bushmeat trade grows with economy in 13-year study

Posted: 03 Aug 2015 06:25 PM PDT

Comprehensive results of 13 years of one of the longest continuously running studies of commercial hunting activity have been published. The researchers recorded more than 197,000 animal carcasses for sale and analyzed market patterns in relation to political, economic and legal factors in the country of Equatorial Guinea in central Africa.

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