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Nature: Breeding a fungus-free grove

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The Globe and Mail Saturday, December 8, 2007 A ‘dating service’ for lonely elms by Sharon Oosthoek GUELPH, ONT. Come winter, tree huggers wax poetic about towering pines or stands of silvery birch. But Alan Watson is awed at the sight of a small patch of saplings. He hopes they will grow into an umbrella-shaped [...]

What’s in store for the south

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Canadian Geographic, December 2007 Plants in a farm filed in London, Ont., are getting an early taste of climate change in a unique experiment that promises to show how rising temperatures and pollution might affect temperate regions.

Nature: The rise of mixed species could save animals at risk, or destroy them.

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The Globe and Mail Saturday, December 1, 2007 The trouble with hybrids. Because of environmental change, a growing number of endangered animals are mating with genetic cousins. Which leaves conservationists with a dilemma: Should they prevent wildlife from crossing the species divide – or protect offspring such as grizzlars and bob-o-lynx? Sharon Oosthoek reports On [...]

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