3 November 2021
\n \n \n \nNew software can help determine the movements of large wild animals, thereby minimising conflicts with people.
\n \n\n \n \n27 September 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessor Scotland has spent more than three decades at Oxford on painstaking research, in the tradition of Darwin and other monographers, working out the taxonomy of plant species to discover what exists, where are they found and how are they related.
\n \n\n \n \n16 September 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research led by the University of Oxford, published in Conservation Letters, has examined the conflict between small-scale fisheries and marine mammals, using the experience of fisheries on the west coast of South America to highlight a worldwide issue.
\n \n\n \n \n16 September 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research published recently in the journal eLife sheds fresh light on plant chloroplasts, and the proteins inside them. The regulation of chloroplast proteins is important for plant development and stress acclimation and is increasingly significant as plants are having to respond to changing environments.
\n \n\n \n \n30 July 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research from the Departments of Plant Sciences and Engineering Science, as well as collaborators at VU Amsterdam, uses both mathematical modelling and experimental validation to study the metabolic processes controlling how bacteria provide ammonia to legumes, which is vastly important for sustainable agriculture.
\n \n\n \n \n29 June 2021
\n \n \n \nOxford University scientist, Dr Chris Thorogood, from Oxford Botanic Garden teamed up with Siti-Munirah at the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, and local explorer, Dome Nikong, to describe a strange plant from the depths of the Malaysian rainforest.
\n \n\n \n \n19 May 2021
\n \n \n \nThe overall process of fruit ripening in tomato (including colour changes and softening) can be changed \u2013speeded up or slowed down \u2013 by modifying the expression of a single protein located in subcellular organelles called the plastids. This offers a novel opportunity for crop improvement.
\n \n\n \n \n13 May 2021
\n \n \n \nNature-based solutions (NbS) can contribute to the fight against climate change up to the end of our century, according to new Oxford research in Nature. The analysis suggests that, to limit global temperature rise, we must slash emissions and increase NbS investment to protect, manage and restore ecosystems and land for the future.
\n \n\n \n \n12 May 2021
\n \n \n \nHollie Booth from the Department of Zoology and colleague William Arlidge from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries write about new research proposing that commercial fishing companies and seafood consumers should pay compensation for the environmental impacts of fisheries.
\n \n\n \n \n12 May 2021
\n \n \n \nNew collaborative research, led by the University of Oxford and published today in Ecological Solutions and Evidence, shows that a simple tropical forest assessment tool can robustly estimate forest condition, demonstrating high levels of agreement with detailed scientific data sets of biodiversity, forest structure and ecosystem functioning.
\n \n\n \n \n10 May 2021
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