ASU Professor Helps In Fight To Protect Japanese Pika Habitat
...s most northern island, Hokkaido, the breathtaking snowy peaks andvalleys of Mt. Daisetsu-- a group of volc...inutes. On any given day, rows of cameras line the snowy banks of Mt. Daisetsu. Amidthe rocky terrain is a colony of pikas scampering about for the dozens, i...First North Americans Had Chance To Be Avid Birders
...led hawk, a fly-catcher, a redpoll, a waxwing, the snowy andhawk owls, and several species of swallows and plovers. The bones also includethe earliest evidence in North America of a snow bunting, as well as theearliest record in Canada of a snow goose, a phoebe, and the American widgeon. The great diversit...Hurricane Floyd signal of a new weather era?
...lly soggy Oregon and Washington will have verywet, snowy winters with some regularity....Communications towers killing birds
... estimated 10,000 Lapland longspurs diedone foggy, snowy night in western Kansas. The television tower that killed theneotropical migrants was "only" 420 feet high. The Cornell meeting brought together, for the first time, biologists fromgovernment and academia, environmentalists, representatives of the ...Wolf response to climate change can impact ecosystem
...ined Peterson. " Wolves responded to increasingly snowy winters by hunting in larger packs, and consequent...he number of moose killed per day compared to less snowy years when they hunted in smaller packs." Peterson said this greater killing efficiency by wolves ...On a cold, snowy Sunday in late March, a University of Illinois at Chicago biologist, backed by a volunteer crew, set fire to dry vegetation on one of the last surviving patches of virgin prairie in the state. "If we didnt do it, in the long run, the prairie wouldn...NU scientist finds answers in Antarctic icefish
...ichs winter sojourns to the dark, cold, windy, and snowy Antarctic may help those afflicted with blood disorders to enjoy many more happy days in the sun....Counterintuitively, after extreme droughts, wading birds flourish
...urge in breeding pairs of white ibis, wood storks, snowy egrets and tricolor herons. It was a classic case of scientists being caught with their pants down, Frederick said. We thought there would be nothing, and it was the biggest year in 25 years. Frederick, a UF associate professor of wildlife ec...Nanoparticles could aid biohazard detection, computer industry
...e not salts you would use to flavor food or make a snowy roadway safe for driving. The amount of precious metals in these salts is low to begin with; when the salts are dissolved in liquid at the concentration that Buriak's group needs to form nanoparticles, a test tube full of the solution is worth only p...Snowy plover 'nursery' success earns Resource Stewardship Award
...single strand of rope separates threatened western snowy plovers from people recreating on the public beach...00-yard nursery was protected, it fledged 39 young snowy plovers this summer. The success of this combined effort of researchers, managers and volunteers has...It's feast or famine: Predators may drive lemming cycles, Science researchers say
...redator-prey relationships. The stoat, arctic fox, snowy owl, and a seabird called the long-tailed skua all dine on this hamster-like animal. Scientists now suggest that these four predators may be solely responsible for the four-year population cycle in eastern Greenland and possibly in many other collare......single strand of rope separates threatened western snowy plovers from people recreating on the public beach...00-yard nursery was protected, it fledged 39 young snowy plovers this summer. Their success owes much to the combined effort of researchers, managers and vol...