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Sabah Forest Canopy 2 Chien Lee SEARPP

Restoration accelerates logged forest recovery

Actively restored forests recover above ground biomass faster than areas left to regenerate naturally after being logged, according to a long-​term study on Borneo lowland rainforest led by the University of Dundee, Aberdeen and ETH…

agriculture image Tom Fisk Pexels

More than 160 subsidies damage biodiversity in Switzerland

Subsidies in different areas support a variety of political goals in Switzerland. However, more than 160 subsidies harm biodiversity as published in a new study by researchers of the Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL) and the Swiss…

Career funding: the researcher’s overall performance counts

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has adopted the DORA recommendations in its career funding schemes and adapted some other criteria. This will make the selection process even fairer and more inclusive of re-searchers with…

Hitzestress Ansgar Kahmen

Heat stress: The climate is putting European forests under heavy pressure

No year since weather records began was as hot and dry as 2018. A first comprehensive analysis of the consequences of this drought and heat event shows that central European forests experienced a long-term damage. Even tree species…

Questionable extension of Access and Benefit Sharing

Interesting new read on the expansion of the CBD Nagoya Protocol regulations to include "digital sequence information". The authors advocate to rethink the global policy of Access and Benefit Sharing. The article explains the importance…

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Botanica Sudalpina Conference 2020

Botanica Sudalpina Conference 2020 will be held  20–21 November 2020, at the Natural History Museum of canton Ticino, Lugano TI,Switzerland. Satellite events on Friday November 20Main conference on Saturday November 21Local field trips…

bumble bee @Hannier Pulido

Bumblebees speed up flowering

Bumblebees speed up flowering: If they find too little pollen, they pierce the leaves of non-flowering plants in order to force them to produce flowers more quickly. When pollen is in short supply, bumblebees damage plant leaves in a way…

Experimental set-up with Venus flytrap, two cameras, microrobotic system, and load cell. (Image: Hannes Vogler, UZH)

How Venus Flytraps Snap

The Venus flytrap plant catches spiders and insects by snapping its trap leaves. This mechanism is activated when unsuspecting prey touch highly sensitive trigger hairs twice within 30 seconds. A study led by researchers at the…

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Counting wheat heads for more ecology

To Achim Walter, professor at ETH Zurich and member of the Swiss Plant Science Web it is clear: The budding artificial intelligence will decisively advance agroecology. But before we can harvest the fruits of AI, computers still have a lot…

swissuniversities: Call for reviewers for the National Program Open Science I (2021-2024)

At the request of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SEFRI), and in collaboration with the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), swissuniversities has developed a national Open Access Strategy and its related…

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