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German researcher Stephan Getzin proposes that fairy circles are formed by the reaction-diffusion mechanism described by Alan Turing

An extended excerpt from a report on parasite publishers prepared by researchers with the Basic Research Community for Physics.

This article looks at recent research published in Communications Biology, which looks at the climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests.

In May, the U.K. Forestry Commission announced a grant program designed to encourage the creation of new English woodlands as a means of mitigating climate change, boosting biodiversity, and reducing flooding. The program will make 15.9 million pounds ($21.7 million) available in its first year to “provide greater financial incentives for landowners and farmers to […]

July 5, 2021 Prof Dr Bilquees Gul — a Pakistani female scientist and the present director of the Institute of Sustainable Halophyte Utilisation at the University of Karachi — has her name placed among the six scientists who recently produced a three-volume study ‘Handbook of Halophytes: From Molecules to Ecosystems towards Biosaline Agriculture’, which provides a unique resource of knowledge on halophytes that can play a major role to deal with the food crisis and salinity threat to ag...

 E-Mail People view the wolf as either a threatening predator or a sign of a healthy natural habitat. Many proponents of nature and animal conservation welcome the spread of wolf populations in Germany. By contrast, farmers who graze herds directly impacted by the wolves return are more critical. The team of Nicolas Schoof, Prof. Dr. Albert Reif of the Chair of Site Classification and Vegetation Science at the University of Freiburg, and Prof. Dr. Eckhard Jedicke of the Competence Center Cultu...