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					<title>Study suggests trees sleep at night</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/study-suggests-trees-sleep-night/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 May 2016 14:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Austria and Finland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Technology, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[We’ve known for centuries that plants are governed by a circadian rhythm just as much as humans: no less a scientific authority than Charles Darwin himself described the daily cycles of leaf motion as “sleep” all the way back in 1880. But a study published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science provides compelling new [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[We’ve known for centuries that plants are governed by a circadian rhythm just as much as humans: no less a scientific authority than Charles Darwin himself described the daily cycles of leaf motion as “sleep” all the way back in 1880. But a study published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science provides compelling new evidence that trees do in fact have themselves a bit of a snooze after the sun goes down. The study was not actually designed to test whether or not trees slumber, but instead to measure a novel way of detecting and recording the movements of trees. A team of Finnish and Austrian researchers used terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) to determine the circadian movements of silver birch (Petula Bendula) branches and foliage. Their study consisted of two geographically separate experiments carried out at the same time of year and under similar outdoor conditions. The movements of 14 birch trees in Finland and 77 in Austria were monitored via individual laser scans taken between sunset and sunrise in order to avoid daytime wind effects. The TLS method the researchers employed produces accurate 3D point clouds of target objects down to millimeter resolution, providing detailed information about structural and spatial properties. In this case, the researchers found that the trees’ branches relaxed, so to speak, at night — drooping as much as 10 centimeters. Which is to say, it appears trees rest for a few hours at night, starting a couple hours after sunset, before becoming active again&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/study-suggests-trees-sleep-night/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Life finds a way: the surprising biodiversity of cities</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/04/life-finds-a-way-the-surprising-biodiversity-of-cities/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Apr 2014 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Nika Levikov]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Austria]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Birds, Cities, Environment, Green, and Plants]]>
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							<![CDATA[Public perception of wildlife tends to be tied to natural habitats such as forests, ocean and other wild settings. However, cities can provide habitat for many animals and plants. In the largest global assessment of urban biodiversity to date, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, researchers examined the biodiversity of urban areas and found [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Public perception of wildlife tends to be tied to natural habitats such as forests, ocean and other wild settings. However, cities can provide habitat for many animals and plants. In the largest global assessment of urban biodiversity to date, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, researchers examined the biodiversity of urban areas and found that cities are home to a surprising number of species. The study underlines the conservation importance of preserving and creating green spaces when it comes to urban planning. The study focused on 54 cities for birds and 110 cities for plants in 36 countries across six continents. The researchers collected and analyzed data from various sources, including databases, surveys and existing literature and found that, on average, 20 percent of the bird species and five percent of the plant species of the regions they examined occur in urban areas. In addition, the number of different species, known as “species richness,” strongly correlated with city size, with bigger cities having larger numbers of different species. To look at things a bit more specifically, the researchers divided variables into two parts: the “built” environment – buildings, roads and other human-made structures &#8211; and intact vegetation, also referred to as “green spaces” such as grasslands and shrublands. The study found that bird densities declined with natural landcover, indicating the importance of green spaces, and older cities were shown to support higher plant densities because they contain more intact vegetation. Green spaces can be created around buildings &#8211; or&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/04/life-finds-a-way-the-surprising-biodiversity-of-cities/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25398</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Reversing local extinction: scientists bring the northern bald ibis back to Europe after 300 years</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/reversing-local-extinction-scientists-bring-the-northern-bald-ibis-back-to-europe-after-300-years/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Dec 2013 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Federica Di Leonardo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Austria, Europe, Germany, and Italy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Birds, Captive Breeding, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Migration, Poaching, Reintroductions, Rewilding, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[The unmistakable northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita). Photo by: Waldrappteam. The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), also called the hermit ibis or waldrapp, is a migratory bird. Once, the bald ibis lived in the Middle East, northern Africa and southern and central Europe, but due to hunting, loss of habitat and pesticide-use, the birds disappeared [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The unmistakable northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita). Photo by: Waldrappteam. The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), also called the hermit ibis or waldrapp, is a migratory bird. Once, the bald ibis lived in the Middle East, northern Africa and southern and central Europe, but due to hunting, loss of habitat and pesticide-use, the birds disappeared from most of these areas and is currently considered Critically Endangered. It became extinct in Europe 300 years ago; the bird is almost gone in Syria, with only a single individual recorded at the country&#8217;s lone breeding site in 2013; and the only stronghold left is a small population of around 500 birds in Morocco. But now, a team of scientists from Austria is working to reestablish a self-sustaining, migratory population of bald ibis in Europe. In 2002 Johannes Fritz, who had been a doctoral student in biology at the Konrad Lorenz Research Station in Austria, came up with the idea of taking northern bald ibises from zoos and imprinting them, in effect becoming their foster parent to teach them a new migratory route to Italy. After more than ten years of research and feasibility planning, the Austrian Waldrappteam, together with partners from Germany and Italy (the Parco Natura Viva Garda Zoological Park) received funding from the European Union for a Life+ Project to be held from 2014 to 2019. The aim of the project is to create a European population of at least 120 ibises that migrate autonomously from Germany to Italy. Experiments conducted&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/reversing-local-extinction-scientists-bring-the-northern-bald-ibis-back-to-europe-after-300-years/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25990</doi>				</item>
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