von Thomas Fester | Jan 13, 2017 | Ecology, News
Plants and animals have always migrated from one continent to another. Due to human activity, however, migration rates are much higher now than they have been before. This not only threatens the existence of less competitive species restricted to a certain region....
von Thomas Fester | Jan 13, 2017 | Climate Change, Ecology, News, Soil Biology
How to obtain global data on cropland greenhous gas production? Agriculture is responsible for a good part of human-caused greenhouse gas production. Reducing the amount of CO2, CH4 and N2O produced in agriculture will be crucial for climate change mitigation efforts...
von Thomas Fester | Dez 17, 2016 | Ecology, Extraterrestrial life, Fiction, Natural History
Prevalence of subsurface oceans in the solar system and beyond While blue jewels like Earth are rare in space, many celestial bodies possess subsurface oceans. Such oceans may be heated by internal planetary heat or by interaction with a larger planetary bodiy (tidal...
von Thomas Fester | Dez 15, 2016 | Ecology, News, Soil Biology
Soils at high latitudes will be carbon sources under climate change Soil organic carbon constitutes a large terrestrial reservoir with a potentially significant impact on global levels of carbon dioxide. Global warming may either result in mobilization of this...
von Thomas Fester | Dez 15, 2016 | Ecology, News
Differences between natural and anthropogenic environments when it comes to insect pests Insect are effectively competing with humans for the food produced in agriculture and are responsible for considerable yield losses. Chemicals used to combat insects often are...
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