NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...or the U.S. paper industry and a major crop in the southeastern states. A number of functional genomics studies will look at how genes contribute to the internal workings of an organism. A project at Pennsylvania State University, for example, will study the molecular genetic interactions between the rootstocks a...Highlights of American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 22-26
...appening in New England's Buzzards Bay, an area of southeastern Massachusetts known for its large shellfish and lobster habitats. Previous studies by others have observed continuous declines in lobster and other fish. Now, researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth say that they may have identified...Study in Science reveals recreational fishing takes big bite of ocean catch
...r which is currently protected from harvest in the southeastern U.S., but is still caught by catch and release. While the cumulative impact of commercial fishers is constrained by limits on who, where, when and how much fish they can catch, there are no controls on the aggregate impact of recreational fishers. ...Restoring sweetgrass to the South Carolina lowcountry
...a long-bladed grass restricted to the coast of the southeastern United States, grows in clumps along the second dune line of the beach, in the boundaries between marshes and woods, and in wet savannahs. This "muhly" grass is not to be confused with the true sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata) used by Native American...New England forests at greater risk from air pollution
...the New England region, it's more scattered in the southeastern part of the United States. Details were presented during a symposium on indicators of forest health on Tuesday, Aug. 3, at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Portland, Ore. As part of national project to monitor the health of ...Summer in the South: Kudzu and oriental bittersweet
Midsummer finds many places in the southeastern United States engulfed in kudzu and other nonnativ... of acres of public and private forest land in the southeastern United States, and are spreading steadily from disturbed areas into forests. In 2003, SRS researcher...Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research helps implement global climate change initiative
...inia Tech and Marshall Miller and Associates. This southeastern partnership is part of a nationwide network of regional government-industry-academic partnerships focused on determining the most suitable technologies, regulations, and infrastructure needs for carbon capture, storage and sequestration in different ...Researchers find evidence that sea turtles navigate with magnetic maps
...tic fields that exist in different areas along the southeastern U.S. coast. They also placed a pool of water in the center of the coil so that they could expose the turtles to various magnetic fields while observing the direction in which they swam. "We captured juvenile turtles using a 400-meter net stretched pa...Newfound grasshopper takes to the trees on Konza Prairie
...stern hardwood forests and the pine forests of the southeastern region of the country. The species has been reported twice before in Kansas, Onaga and Oswego, as verified by Hopkins in a search of K-State's extensive entomology specimen collection. "Its discovery on Konza is a big surprise," Hopkins...Study reveals poor Houston air quality
... highest ozone levels were found around the city's southeastern edge near the huge petrochemical plants. "These plants emit large amounts of highly reactive volatile organic compounds and nitric oxides," Zhang says. "At midday, the ozone readings are very high because of the industrial emissions, coupled with au...Researchers find no safe place to sit in California tick-infested forest
...at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center in southeastern Mendocino County to conduct the field trials. The area, dominated by California black oak, is endemic for Lyme disease. Jeomhee Mun, a UC Berkeley research specialist in insect biology, is another co-author of the paper. Lane and Steinlein conduct...System to measure carbon dioxide flux from soil patented
...s to collect data on a continuous basis across the southeastern United States. Current research cooperators include: Duke University (Durham, NC), USDA Agricultural Research Service (Auburn, AL), the SRS Center for Forested Wetlands Research (Charleston, SC), SRS Disturbance and Management of Southern Pine Ecosys...Local, regional governments could take lead in curbing global air pollution
...t could have had health effects as far away as the southeastern United States. She notes the governments of Japan, Korea, the United States and Canada as well as two or three Canadian provincial governments are working together to provide monitoring in China so they can document when pollution is likely to hav...Bighorn sheep threatened by climate change
..., annual precipitation dropped about 20 percent in southeastern California over the last century. According to the study, groups of bighorn sheep were more likely to be lost in lower elevation mountains where there were higher average temperatures and less precipitation. The authors examined population data on th...Keeping populations of cerulean warbler healthy
... build nests in the upper canopy of forests in the southeastern United States. Since 1966, populations of the spec...ture deciduous forest, often along streams: in the southeastern United States, much of this habitat has been lost to agriculture or development. In its winter range...New evidence suggests that monkey thought extinct still exists
...ill alive, it's range may be limited to the remote southeastern corner of Ivory Coast. If the monkey were indeed extinct, it would be the first primate to have disappeared in 200 years. McGraw has spent the better part of a decade traveling to Ivory Coast conducting research on various African monkeys, and always...New species of desert shrew found in southern Arizona
...rew, N. crawfordi , found in habitat from Texas to southeastern and south central Arizona. Baker found that the unidentified shrew had a chromosome morphology, or karyotype, different from that of N. crawfordi. "In 1966 it was not thought that the karyotype differed much within a single species," Baker said. "Aft...Study finds that fungus farming by snails causes marsh grasses to wither
... to the massive die-off of salt marshes across the southeastern United States in recent years. According to Silliman, several other theories have been advanced to help explain marsh die-off, including drought and the dispersion of a fungal pathogen. By suggesting a synergy between fungus and snail that leads to ......entres on the town of Cogolin in the Var region of southeastern France. Just outside the image is San Tropez, on the coast due east of Cogolin. Clearly visible towards the upper left-hand corner of the image is the grey-dark burn scarring from the latest blaze. Some 2,000 firefighters and water-carrying aircraft......iens with thrifty genes: Diabetic feral swine on a southeastern coastal barrier island" will be part of Oral Session #42: Mammal Ecology: From Mice to Elephants, held Wednesday, August 6, 8 AM 11:30 AM, SITCC, Meeting Room 104. Somewhere over the course of the nearly 500 years in which they have roamed their isl...