It’s a horror story unfolding in the west that could sweep across the country. Beware the shot-hole borer, an exotic pest that threatens our tree crops, plantations, urban forests and wild places.
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Inserting electrodes into insects helps scientists understand what attracts these insects – and, stemming from that, how to trap them and protect crops.
Research measuring how water flows between living kauri trees and a leafless stump adds evidence that trees use their underground root systems to support each other.
A tree-killing beetle that invaded South Africa two years ago and wreaked havoc in the country’s towns and cities still hasn’t been declared an emergency plant pest.
A tree-killing beetle has invaded South Africa. This is what should be done.
The beetle and the fungus have devastated trees in California in the US as well as in Israel. Now they’re in South Africa.
Over 100 species are dependent on Ash trees for survival – we need to act fast.
Invasive pests threaten the world’s much-needed planted forests, as trees are declining.
Looking at the countryside now in the middle of summer, it is hard to believe that trees are under threat from an array of diseases and pests. Warm and wet conditions with plenty of sunshine have led to…
Everyone can contribute to scientific research, whether by exploring far-flung galaxies from the comfort of their computer, or by checking how clean the air is in their street by examining lichens growing…
Ashwellthorpe Lower Wood in Norfolk, England has been managed by coppicing, an ancient form of forestry, for more than a thousand years. It was recorded as coppiced woodland in the Domesday Book published…
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Associate Professor, University of Pretoria
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Postdoctoral Fellow Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria
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Professor, Personal Chair, University of Aberdeen
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Research Associate, University of York
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Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre
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Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute and Future Africa, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Science Communication, University of Gloucestershire
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Research Scientist, John Innes Centre
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Auckland University of Technology
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PhD, Chemical & Visual Ecology, University of Pretoria
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Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Associate Professor of Applied Entomology, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Environmental Science, Auckland University of Technology
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Research Scientist, James Hutton Institute
