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Social factors in ants
A doctoral thesis read at the CREAF, at the UAB, attempts to characterise the social factors involved in the differentiation between workers and queens in ant colonies. Investigating ants' behavioural mechanisms, both physiological and pheromonal, this work confirms that both the queen and the workers influence...
The Rough Bindweed, good for cleaning contaminated soil
The process by which plants are used to remove metals from contaminated soils is called phytoremediation. Phytoremediation plants must have a very high tolerance to metals, must be resistant to various factors and should not transfer the metals to their leaves,...
Is thermal adaptation genetically limited?
Earth’s biodiversity is severely threatened by human-induced climate change. It is fairly trivial to mention that most organisms would be pushed either to evolve or migrate to new locations. Some current biodiversity models used to assess the vulnerability of species to climate...
The importance of potassium in forest growth
Potassium is generally not considered in ecological studies of forest growth. Based on this, a group of researchers at the CREAF in the UAB has studied the role of this element in the growth of 2836 forests parcels in Catalonia. Thus, these researchers have highlighted the...
