Agriculture and Environment

Wild herbivores eat some of the plant growth due to nutrient pollution, but not enough to counteract these negative impacts according to a new study from the College of Biological Sciences.

Beavers are some of the world’s most prolific ecosystem engineers, creating, maintaining and radically altering wetlands almost everywhere they live. But what, if anything, might control this engineering by beavers and influence the formation of North America’s wetlands? 

A University of Minnesota-led research team has developed new methods to assess how biodiversity loss impacts forest ecosystems by determining how sunlight reflects off the surface of the forest canopy using spectral images taken from an airplane.

Reducing fossil fuel use is essential to stopping climate change, but that goal will remain out of reach unless global agriculture and eating habits are also transformed, according to new research from the University of Minnesota and University of Oxford.

Researchers validated a genetic test that can predict whether a plant will produce mostly the CBD or THC molecule.