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The researchers developed molecular tools to work with commercially available kits that allow the user to quickly and effectively test plants for the disease, using a dipstick that reveals the presence of the pathogen within minutes.

Tadpoles that hide more and develop faster when predators are present have better chances at survival, and the study sheds light on the frog’s capacity to proliferate across the Pacific Northwest.

Zebrafish have been found in recent years to be an excellent model for biomedical research because they reproduce rapidly, and their embryonic genetics and biological systems bear many similarities to those of humans.

The study shows that the condition of the site before fire dictates the post-fire recovery of the affected plants.

These findings and others gathered over a decade’s study eroded the popular impression that agricultural streams and ditches are poor habitat and nothing of value lives there. 

The four-year study is the first to link sage-grouse demographics with tree reduction and supports the idea of conserving sage-grouse by controlling conifer expansion into the bird’s habitat.

A seven-year study, led by Oregon State University and the Center for International Forestry Research, spanned five countries across the topics from Indonesia to the Dominican Republic. 

No matter how high they go, the wild sheep can’t elude Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae – the bacteria now widely thought to be primarily responsible for fatal infectious pneumonia in bighorns.