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Global conservation priorities based on human need16 Jul, 2009 11:19 am Gary Luck and colleagues' paper Protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity in the world's watersheds, recently posted online in Conservation Letters...Tropical forests worth more standing8 Jun, 2009 01:57 pm A paper just published online in Conservation Letters by Venter and colleagues entitled Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals...The Antioxidant Function of Iodide in Kelp Impacts Coastal Climate2 Jun, 2008 03:20 pm A new study found that large brown seaweeds, when under stress, release large quantities of inorganic iodine into the coastal atmosphere,...The North Pacific Gyre Oscillation Links Ocean Climate and Ecosystem Change19 May, 2008 11:31 am During the last several decades, dramatic fluctuations in marine ecology have been observed off the western coast of the United States...Marine Pollution Control by Seaweed Planting and Composting12 May, 2008 12:05 pm According to a new study by researchers in China and Japan, we found that marine bacteria were helpful in enhancing composting process of wakame,...Climate Changes and Effects on Marine Resources in Greenland and Polar Waters, Part II25 Apr, 2008 09:53 am Part II of the video above from Ms. Helle Siegstad, TACC2008.Climate Changes and Effects on Marine Resources in Greenland and Polar Waters25 Apr, 2008 09:53 am Ms Helle Siegstad, MSc in Biology, is the Department Manager of the Department of Fish & Scrimps in Greenland's Nature Institution...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...The Geochemical Origin of Part of CO2 Emissions in Semiarid Climates4 Apr, 2008 11:49 am The implementation of the Kyoto Protocol has raised, among other pressing matters, the need of getting to know the annual levels of carbon in different...Streams are Important Nitrogen Filters in the Landscape31 Mar, 2008 01:12 pm If you plan to vacation at the beach this summer or open the tap for a clean glass of water, that small stream in your neighborhood may be more important...Arctic Climate Models Playing Key Role in Polar Bear Decision18 Mar, 2008 05:24 pm The pending federal decision about whether to protect the polar bear as a threatened species is as much about climate science as it is about climate change...Nitrogen Pollution Boost Plant Growth7 Mar, 2008 09:36 am Overview from Laurens Rademakers on Biopact.com*: A study by UC Irvine ecologists finds that excess nitrogen in tropical forests boosts plant growth,...Reviving the Coral Reef20 Feb, 2008 12:37 pm A report from CNN examines a project which uses electricity to revive the dying coral reef in Bali.A New Way to Assess Local Ecosystems Sustainability29 Feb, 2008 09:08 am Ecosystems are in flux around the world. Important species are disappearing due to mismanagement and climate change, while invasive new species are appearing...Penguin Peril12 Feb, 2008 11:53 am How will Antarctica's penguins adapt to climate change? John Blackstone spoke to a researcher studying penguin colonies at the bottom of the world...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...Trouble for Birds21 Dec, 2007 11:41 am 6-14% of birds are likely to go extinct in the 21st century as a result of habitat loss, hunting, pet trade, and introduced animals like cats that kill...Human Influence on Ecology18 Dec, 2007 11:30 am Scientists have reclassified biomes like deserts and forests into ecosystems that show how humans have altered the Earth. Jorge Ribas (Discovery News)...Habitat Protection for the "Big Picture" of Environment Conservation27 Dec, 2007 12:08 pm Amphibians across the globe are facing a mass extinction event, believed by many to be worse than any other witnessed by humans...Global Warming Creates a Stairway to Heaven21 Dec, 2007 11:41 am Climate change is leading to increased temperatures, especially noticeable in mountains and other cooler climes. Many animals and plants,...Surprising Sustainability of Great Plains Agriculture22 Nov, 2007 11:01 am A century-long examination of trends in population, farm income and crop production in the Great Plains reveals stability of farm income and population...The Island Rule: Made to be Broken?25 Nov, 2008 05:51 pm Think of island-dwelling animals and enormous Kodiak bear, giant tortoises, and huge man-eating lizards alongside miniature mammoths,...The Long Hard Reign of Acid Rain24 Oct, 2007 11:59 am For many environmentalists, acid rain was the cause c?l?bre of the 1980s, but how far have we come in solving the problem? Recent work shows how continuing...Brazil's Atlantic Forest Under Threat17 Oct, 2007 10:59 am Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo travels to the Mata Atlantica, which is as rich in biodiversity as the more famous Amazon and in danger of disappearing under...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...Authors@Google: Don Kennedy18 Sep, 2007 12:13 pm Don Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science is the author of Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006--2007 which brings together leading environmental...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,...Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs are Disappearing More Rapidly Than Expected31 Aug, 2007 10:49 am Until now, we knew very little about geographic and temporal patterns of coral loss in the Indo-Pacific, which contains 75% of the world?...I Didn't Notice I Lost a Gene27 Jul, 2007 09:49 am In the year 2000, at around the time that the first human genome sequence was completed, an inventory of the genetic material of the small mustard plant...Metagenomics Meeting Report25 Jul, 2007 12:00 pm A report on the Metagenomics 2007 meeting*. For those who do not know - metagenomics is the simultaneous sequencing of the genomes of communities of microbes..."The More Ecosystems Services, The Greater The Biodiversity Needed to Underpin Those Services"11 Jul, 2007 07:01 pm Andy Hector is a specialist on biodiversity. According to his study published today in Nature, biodiversity plays a more important role in ecosystem functioning...Arctic Biodiversity: certain loss, potential discoveries?5 Jul, 2007 10:06 am Biodiversity in the Arctic is undergoing rapid changes, which is a serious concern to scientists. On the other hand new access to the Arctic waters could...Arctic in The Balance5 Jul, 2007 10:07 am The Arctic is becoming increasingly accessible because of climate change, and as such governments and big Industry see much to be gained from the potential..."We Are Frightened of Pollution and New Invasive Species Taking Over"4 Jul, 2007 03:51 pm Terry Callaghan, professor of Arctic biology states that the biodiversity in the Arctic is in grave danger, which could have parallel consequences for...Rising Ocean Temperature Leads to Coral Disease Outbreaks7 Jun, 2007 04:11 pm Disease is one of the primary factors causing the global loss of reef building corals. Results from a paper recently published in PLoS Biology indicate...Increasing Inequality Threatens Biodiversity29 May, 2007 07:30 pm Biodiversity?the great variety of populations, species, and ecosystems?is now being eroded at a rate not seen since the last mass extinction some 65 million...Global Warming and FIsh Migrations28 May, 2007 12:19 pm Past variations in ocean climate have affected location and migrations of fish stocks. This indicates that global warming will have similar effects...Hot Running Water? Climate Change Effects on Stream Ecology15 May, 2007 12:36 pm Recently, we reported on a 25-year study that has shown just how far-reaching climatic effects on streams might be. Writing in ?...Climate Changes Means More Mushrooms4 May, 2007 12:45 pm Species that used to start fruiting in September now do so in July or August. The end of the season now ends later. It used to be in October,...Too Much of Too Many Good Things3 May, 2007 12:04 pm The idea of niche dimension is that greater diversity at lower levels in a food web allows greater diversity at higher levels: greater diversity of limiting...Impacts of Climate Change on the European Marine and Coastal Environment:12 Mar, 2007 12:13 pm Although all ecosystems have been influenced by many other factors, such as eutrophication and overfishing, every sea in Europe has shown already at least...Strange Stirrings in the Arctic Drive Ecosystem Changes Far Downstream5 Mar, 2007 11:14 am Changes in Arctic climate during the late 1980s pumped large amounts of low-salinity water into the shelf ecosystems of the NW Atlantic...Status of large predatory fish stocks in the Pacific Ocean23 Jan, 2007 05:49 pm In December 2006, my colleagues John Hampton from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pierre Kleiber from NOAA Fisheries,...Human Behavior Needs To Change To Preserve Biodiversity15 Jan, 2007 11:13 am Dr. Michel Loreau is professor of theoretical ecology at McGill University. He was the recipient of the Silver Medal of the National Centre for Scientific...Patagonian Ecosystem Threatened By Anchovy Fishing5 Jan, 2007 03:23 pm Ms. Skewgar and her associates published a paper in Science about the threat to Patagonia wildlife posed by the opening of an anchovy fishery. Ms...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,...Biodiversity Erodes Fast in Amazonian Forest Fragments6 Dec, 2006 11:11 am Amazonian rainforests contain some of the most biologically-rich ecosystems on the planet and are being cleared and fragmented at truly alarming rates... |
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