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A New Model to Protect Biodiversity14 Apr, 2008 12:37 pm In an era of climate change, pollution, and rapid habitat loss, it?s all too easy for doom and gloom to prevail when discussing conservation issues...Invasive Species Can Produce "Hotspots of Evolutionary Novelty"27 Mar, 2008 02:51 pm Biological invaders are organisms that rapidly spread and multiply after being introduced out of their native range. They are considered one of the most...Deep-Sea Biodiversity Conservation Needed to Avoid Ecosystem Collapse12 Feb, 2008 11:53 am The exploration of the abysses of our planet is one of the last frontiers of ecological research. The dark portion of the biosphere likely hosts millions...Spatial Patterns of Tropical Tree Species Retain Little Signature of Species Interactions8 Oct, 2007 04:30 pm A persistent challenge in ecology is to explain the high species diversity of tropical forests. One approach to facing this challenge is to analyze the...Biodiversity: a "Rock-Paper-Scissors" Game Played at Multiple Scales26 Sep, 2007 11:08 am Biological diversity is being lost at unprecedented rates around the world, both in the number of different species and the genetic variety within a species...Two Hundred More Endangered Species than Last Year13 Sep, 2007 04:02 pm IUCN-The World Conservation Union released yesterday its 2007 Red List of Threatened Species. There are now 41,415 species endangered and 16,...A Human Taste for Rarity Spells Disaster for Endangered Species22 Dec, 2006 04:34 pm In a study published in PLoS Biology, a group of scientists argue that the value on rarity placed by humans incites the exploitation of rare species,...By 2048 All Current Fish, Seafood Species Projected to Collapse6 Nov, 2006 12:55 pm In a study published in the journal Science (3 November), an international collaboration of ecologists and economists shows that the loss of biodiversity... |