What happens to animals when their forest is cut down? If they can, they migrate to different forests. But in an age when forests are falling far and fast, many species may have to shift to entirely different environments. A new paper in Folia Primatologica theorizes that some 60 primate species and 20 wild cat species in Asia and Africa may be relying more on less-impacted environments such as swamp forests, mangroves, and peat forests. Original post on mongabay.com Comments on reddit.com
Endangered primates and cats may be hiding out in swamps and mangrove forests
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(Phys.org) —A new study undertaken by a diverse group of scientists in Sweden has found that contrary to popular belief, most of the carbon that is sequestered in northern boreal forests comes about due to fungi that live on and in tree roots, rather than via dead needles, moss and leaf matter. In… 
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Editor’s Note: Rane Cortez works for The Nature Conservancy and is based in Belem, Brazil. She has just moved for two months to the highly deforested frontier town of São Felix do Xingu (roughly pronounced sow felix do shingoo) in northern Brazil to work with local farmers, ranchers, landowners, indigenous groups, and city officials…