Sentences with phrase «plant diversity leads»

Plant diversity leads to more diversity below ground too.

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The limited availability and input of nitrogen, the application of mechanical and thermal weed control and more diverse crop rotations and a higher crop diversity lead to more favourable conditions for many wild plant species.

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

This photo of a cup plant flower teaming with insects led entomologists to investigate the pollinator wasp diversity support potential of the plant and the role of aphids and parasitic wasps.

The decline in herb - like plants hastened the decline in the woolly mammoth population, leading to a cycle that decreased the plant diversity further (8 February, p 12).

Sixty - two scientists from 19 countries spanning six continents studied the relationships between plant biomass production and species diversity, culminating in a paper appearing in Science, the world's leading journal for cutting - edge scientific research.

On June 30, following on work published in the scientific journal Nature by STRI post-doctoral fellow, Scott Mangan, a group of 50 researchers from 12 countries published a paper in Science (lead author, Joe LaManna, Washington University in St. Louis) showing that close plant relatives make bad neighbors and that the negative interactions between relatives are stronger in the tropics, which may explain why tropical forests are so rich in species diversity: Because plants do not do well next to their relatives, there is more space for non-relatives to fill.

«The chemical diversity found in nature has always been a significant source of inspiration for drug design and development, but although the medicinal properties of plants have been recognized for thousands of years, marine environments remain relatively unexplored,» said Jane Ishmael, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology at Oregon State University and the lead author of the new study.

«Our approach can be used to further refine seed collection guidelines, which could lead to much more efficient and effective collections, allowing us to preserve more diversity of the world's plants.

The research could lead to at least tripling the provitamin A levels [the precursor to vitamin A] in Africa's maize, said senior author Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Station research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and Cornell adjunct associate professor of plant breeding and genetics.

A Lancaster University - led team of scientists from the UK, Netherlands and Germany has produced new evidence that increasing plant species diversity can protect soil in grasslands by improving soil structure, maintaining its overall health.

As part of her current work under the Fungal Genome Initiative at the Broad, Cuomo leads analysis of a wide diversity of animal and plant pathogens, with the goal of better understanding the genetic basis of pathogenicity.

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