A changing landscape may have dire implications for birds
...ies that breed in forest habitats. The development boom in the nation's rural areas is putting increasing pressure on forest ecosystems, and the resulting decline in native vegetation and the increase in human activity - ranging from all-terrain vehicle use to predatory pets roaming the woods - is putting...Portable kidney dialysis machine developed
...ndustry, one that could rival the microelectronics boom of the 1950s and 60s," Adams said. "The Home Dialysis Plus product is just the tip of a very large iceberg." MMD technology includes the use of microchannels, which enable high rates of heat and mass transfer and are the reason for the high rates of ...Climate linked to reproduction of right whales
...tive conditions from 1997 to 2000 led to a 10-fold boom in copepod populations. Consequently, the northern right whales produced more calves in 2001 than at any time since records began in 1980. During the 1980s, the NAO was predominantly positive, leading to warm conditions in the Gulf of Maine as well a...It's feast or famine: Predators may drive lemming cycles, Science researchers say
... can drive lemming populations through a four-year boom and bust cycle, which has been one of ecology's big mysteries for over half a century. While it's a myth that lemmings hurl themselves en masse over cliffs, the reality has been nearly as bewildering for Scandinavians and others at northern high lat...Canopy raft, canopy crane, canopy bubble, Ikos tree house in Panama
...sis. Three 400m2 sites within the reach of its 54m boom will be sampled by the team. A helicopter will lower the Solvin-Bretzel Canopy Raft, a 400m2 platform of PVC pontoons covered with netting--onto the treetops. The mobility of the raft makes it possible to sample three additional 400m2 sites during t...Young plant's natural defenses amount to more than just its seed
...r that sits and waits until the right time, then - boom - eliminates ABI5," says Lopez-Molina, adding, "this makes sense because you have to get rid of ABI5 somehow so the plant will grow when favorable conditions appear." Filling out the picture even more, the researchers showed how AFP might target ABI5...Smaller households fuel global housing boom and threaten biodiversity, study finds
...ine, she and her colleagues noted that the housing boom is largely being driven by a global trend toward smaller households. Throughout the world, the average number of people living together in a household is shrinking - primarily because of lower fertility rates, higher divorce rates, higher per capita ...DNA shows genetic variability of the nene lost more than 500 years ago, not during the 20th century
...y's edition of the journal Science suggests that a boom in the human population between 900 and 350 years ago may have impacted and reduced the population size of the nene during that time, and consequently diminished the species' genetic variation. A team of scientists from the Conservation and Research...Warming temperatures may freeze North American timber industry
...ts. But rising temperatures could mean an economic boom for thetimber industry in regions with subtropical climates, such as SouthAmerica, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Global warming may cause forest growth patterns to slowlychange, said Brent Sohngen, a study co-author and an associateprofessor of agricultur...Dog 'model' for studying inherited human blindness
...to double over the next 30 years as the giant baby boom generation ages." Many of these patients will suffer from macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the aging population. Others, however, will suffer from RP, of which XLRP is one of the most common forms of the disease. Funding for...South American forests offer glimpse of U.S. ecosystems before industrial revolution
...mass production of fertilizers, which has fueled a boom in agricultural productivity. In the South American areas they studied, there is no fertilizer use and almost no influx of fossil fuel emissions. To reach their conclusions, the researchers spent five years preparing experiments in remote Chilean tem...Eaten as food, African orchids threatened by illegal trade
...pecially in urban centers -- has caused the recent boom in illegal trade, according to WCS. The report found said that men and women from every age group dig up orchids in Tanzania to supplement their income. In some areas it is considered a family activity, with children assisting parents. Even primary...Cincinnati researchers document environmental problems caused by tourist trade in Crete
...island with plenty of fresh water sources, but the boom in tourism that began 30 years ago has changed that, as well as the increasing use ofagricultural irrigation. Tourism boosts the waterdemand by about 1000 percent daily. While some say there are no water shortages, Wray says that villagers sometimes ...Concorde to blame for missing pigeons?
...frasonic shock waves generated by Concorde's sonic boom during supersonic flight. To find out, he compared the birds' predicted routes home with Concorde's flight paths and departure times on the days the races took place. The calculations showed that in all the races, the hapless pigeons would have enter...On the floor of the sea: USGS biologists search for rare, white abalone
...prediction isfor a small-scale version of the baby boom that began when GI's returned totheir brides after WWII. It's too bad the weather is so nasty in February or wecould schedule this for Valentine's Day." The second approach will be to bring white abalone back to several laboratoriesup and down the...Clemson researchers link federal flood insurance program to accelerated coastal development
CLEMSON -- The dramatic boom in the sale of land along the South Carolinacoast is not due solely to the soothing effects of the surf, the lure of thewarm seas breezes or the taste of fresh seafood. According to researchers atthe Strom Thurmond Institute at Clemson University, t...New understanding of crab populations may not bring fishermen's delight
...iology swirls around whether populationsgo through boom and bust cycles primarily because of internal ways of regulatingtheir numbers by changing things such as natural life expectancy, egg-layingrates and cannibalism, or because of outside forces, such as predators,weather and food. It turns out that bo...