To rescue biodiversity, we need a better way to measure it
There are all kinds of different ways to measure biodiversity. But if we are to arrest its alarming decline, biologists must agree on a method that best captures how it changes over time
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There are all kinds of different ways to measure biodiversity. But if we are to arrest its alarming decline, biologists must agree on a method that best captures how it changes over time
An experiment in Malaysian Borneo found that the more species of tree seedlings planted in a previously logged plot, the more the result later resembles an old-growth forest, with greater biomass and forest complexity.
According to a recent study published in the journal Science Advances, satellite observations from one of the world’s largest ecological experiments on
One of the world's biggest ecological experiments reveals that replanting logged forests with a mixture of seedlings accelerates recovery.