Scientists share multidisciplinary discoveries at 'Earth System Processes'
...is connects directly to contemporary concerns with biodiversity issues and questions about the effects of climate ... the Smithsonian Institution, will explain how the biodiversity increase that characterizes the biotic recovery from a mass extinction event is structured by ecolog...Homeground ecology 101: Sara Stein to speak at ESA Meeting
...as often been credited with heralding the backyard biodiversity movement of the last decade. A long-time author, Stein began writing about her own land management adventures in the early 1990s. While researching one of her books, she was surprised to realize that many of the once familiar inhabitants of her own ...DNA analysis of salamanders turns up new species under almost every log, UC Berkeley zoologists find
...ry year. Ornithologists have found similar cryptic biodiversity in crossbills, herpetologists in reptiles, marine biologists in whales, and botanists in plants, such as the tiny yellow goldfields that used to blanket the hills of California every spring. "In case after case, when we look at evolution at shallower...Wildlife variety is the spice of life, say scientists
...pment in a scientific debate about how the loss of biodiversity affects the way in which ecosystems work. It may ...co-author of the report, said: "Our research shows biodiversity is not just a pretty face - it can also affect the way the environment works. Previous justificatio...Trouble in paradise? 'Natural' pest control requires careful planning, Science authors conclude
...en invasive species, the second largest problem in biodiversity and conservation, next to habitat destructionhas clear environmental benefits, Memmott emphasized. But, she added, a biocontrol agent gone wild may have the potential to impose adversely cascading events in the food chain, either directly or indirect...... not accomplishing a critical task: preserving the biodiversity of plant and animal species present in the lower-4.... This poses a challenge: In order for America's biodiversity to be preserved for future generations, the authors point out that the private sector must be encour...Leading snake expert dies at 38
...ogists with the skills needed to conduct their own biodiversity surveys so that baseline data necessary for inform...cademy of Sciences. The project, a survey of the biodiversity of the western part of the Yunnan Province, involves a number of Academy scientists and several inst......ticle says yes, details $30 billion cost of saving biodiversity September 21, 2001 (Washington, D.C.) - An inte...ing a highly focused, results-oriented approach to biodiversity conservation. The conference was convened in August, 2000 at the California Institute of Technology ......e well. Such questions led to a major debate about biodiversity and whether the effects of biodiversity loss were relevant to public policy. In work to be published in the Oct. 26 issue of Science, Tilman...Wealth of new species discovered from the abyssal plains of the Atlantic Ocean
...Basin are revealing a wealth of new information on biodiversity in the poorly known depths of the south Atlantic Ocean. The early results from the project Latitudinal Gradients in the Deep Sea of the Atlantic Ocean: DIVA were presented at a workshop at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, on September 18, 2001....First global-scale assessment of biodiversity beneath our feet
...llections as part of a global experiment to survey biodiversity in litter (the layer of plant debris on the soil s...at dwell in soil and litter. Even at small scales, biodiversity in soils and litter is poorly known. There is not one experimental plot, anywhere in the world, for...Impact of genetically engineered fish subject of U of Minnesota study
...work will evaulate the potential safety or risk to biodiversity from the introduction of the tilapia, large numbers of which are raised in fish farms in the United States and around the world. According to ISEES Director Anne Kapuscinski, a professor of fisheries and conservation biology and principal investigat...Finding life in the solar system: A new synthesis
...nce. Scientists have realized that most of Earth's biodiversity is microbial and that large complex microbial ecosystems found in hydrothermal environments can exist entirely on chemical energy. One intriguing hypothesis (with obvious importance for astrobiology) is that life got started in hydrothermal environme...Conservation International and Starbucks announce new coffee sourcing guidelines
... by producing coffee in a way that protects global biodiversity and improves the livelihoods of coffee farmers. Be...e production of Shade Grown Mexico coffee protects biodiversity while providing economic benefits for local farmers in the last remaining cloud forest in Southern M......tinction eventually may rival the five most severe biodiversity crises in the history of multicellular life on Earth," said Alroy. He explained that the number of species at risk of extinction remains uncertain because there are serious statistical barriers to estimating per-species extinction rates and also th...World's smallest lizard discovered in Caribbean
...che. "Habitat destruction is the major threat to biodiversity throughout the world," says Hedges, who has studie...rganization set up specifically for preserving the biodiversity of the Jaragua National Park. Hedges and Thomas have discovered and described more than 50 new spe...Worlds smallest reptile discovered in Caribbean
...ologists believe it ranks as one of the worlds top biodiversity hotspots, defined as the 25 places in the world th... Caribbean islands also play a role in the loss of biodiversity in the region, as does lack of access to centralized biological data within the Caribbean. Our di...Tracking path of virulent bacteria via the web
...ny different infectious diseases and to assess the biodiversity of bacteria in general. Before PathogenTracker, scientists used off-the-shelf database programs to track food-borne pathogens. But in 1999 Wiedmann first used his then-primitive database to help limit the death toll from a listeriosis outbreak. Be...Museums must play a bigger role in conservation
...c, activist course on behalf of the Earths fragile biodiversity and endangered environments. Through careful science-based advocacy and partnerships, natural history museums can and should directly advance conservation goals all the while preserving their scientific objectivity, McCarter asserts. They can accom...Like storm clouds, natural disasters carry a silver lining, biologist says
...ese same disturbances help create and maintain the biodiversity that benefits both the ecosystem and ourselves, Reice said. From producing clean air to breathe and clean water to drink, the ecosystems of the Earth make human life possible. Disturbances enhance the capacity of the ecosystems to do these indispensa...