Ecology
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Fungi and future forest health
New research from Stanford suggests climate change will disrupt many age-old partnerships between aspen trees and fungi that are essential to healthy forests.
December 15, 2023
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Stanford course delves into the history and biology of chili peppers
A course on chili peppers covers history, anthropology, biology, and culture, and includes a visit to a specialty pepper farm in East Palo Alto.
June 08, 2023
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‘Two-Eyed Seeing’ off the California coast
A new research partnership will combine Indigenous and scientific knowledge to monitor marine life in a sacred tribal region that may be a bellwether of how native species will far
March 22, 2023
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Stanford professor spotlights evolutionary tree concepts with campus trees
A century of attentive groundskeeping has turned the Stanford campus into a museum of mathematical phylogenetics, says Noah Rosenberg, creator of the Stanford X-Tree Project
December 07, 2021
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Tiger populations may require 'genetic rescue'
A new study in Molecular Biology and Evolution from Liz Hadly's group at Stanford and others reveals the lasting genetic impacts of increased isolation among different tiger popula
February 18, 2021
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Stanford nectar research sheds light on ecological theory
Different species almost always coexist – whether it’s big animals on the plains, bugs in a jungle or yeasts in flower nectar – but how that works is complicated. Now, Stanford res
June 11, 2018