Nutrition Study Reshapes Strategies For Athletes
...y meals eatenregularly to within an hour or two of competition is preferable to one ortwo large meals the night before. A cup of yogurt or a few crackers an hourbefore an event is likely to have cleared the stomach and gone to the smallintestines ready to be absorbed. Houtkooper said most of the women and their ...NCAR Scientist Models Earth's Climate and Vegetation Patterns At Last Glacial Peak
... how much surface area each type occupied based on competition for light (related to canopy cover) and disturbances such as tree fall and lightning-sparked fire. The result was a global picture of vegetation 21,000 years ago. The model shows fragile, treeless tundra covering most of Europe. Desert spread into th......s small, its fate is death." So great has been the competition for food, that the numbers of temperate penguins have been slowly diminishing over the years. The Punta Tombo colony declined by about 20 percent between 1987 and 1995. However, last year, inexplicably, the numbers rose by 3 percent from the previous...Coming Extinction Of One Of UK's Most Minuscule Plants Yields Information On Climate Change
... open basalt gravel terraces where there is little competition from other species. It is a small member of the Dock family with large specimens being 4 cms high with tiny greenish flowers about 3 mm across. Note for editors: Dr Meatyard is working with the following organisations in connection with this proje...AAAS Announces Science Journalism Award Winners
...nnual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The competition was open to newspaper and magazine articles as well as radio andtelevision shows that were originally published or aired in the United Statesbetween July 1, 1996, and June 30, 1997. Independent screening and judging committeesconsisting of journalis...Major Wolf Die-Off Recorded On Isle Royale
...e said theisland's moose are in good shape because competition for food is not nearly sofierce as it was when the herd numbered 2,500. "One thing that has happened is that we've moved to a completely newgeneration of wolves," he said. "All of the wolves in the park now are less thanfive years old. Their ...Concerns For Australian Sea Lion
...ghnessy, is that sea lions may be facing stronger competition for food from their cousin, the New Zealand fur seal, whose numbers are increasing on Kangaroo Island at an annual rate of around 10%. "The Australian sea lion is an endemic species which we need to take care of. It's a tourist icon, up there w...Butterfly Wings, Beetle Horns Teach Biologists Basic Lesson In Development's Laws
...so through more subtle and mysterious processes of competition between growingbody parts for resources. ...whether it be dung beetles orhumans. Such competition or resource tradeoffs between growing parts, in fact,may make inherited changes in some traits or st......oses that tissue size and shape are controlledby a competition between cell division and cell death. He plans to study fruitflies--which utilize many of the same genetic pathways as humans--to identifygenes that maintain the balance between cell division and cell death. The workpromises to provide a basic unde...Mussels Muscling In, Crabs Pinching Native Species
...t scientists from Sea Grant and NOAA are holding a competition to encourageexamination of alternative technologie...aves others alone. Scientists are hoping that the competition will yield even more creativesolutions....ASU Scientists Join NASA Astrobiology Institute
...ASU faculty, given theextraordinary caliber of the competition we faced." "We are excited to be one of the participants in the NASA Astrobiology Institute.Multidisciplinary and collaborative efforts such as this one represent the future for research andwe are pleased to add astrobiology to a growing number...Whitaker Foundation To Fund AAAS Science Journalism Awards Through 2001
...ough 2001. The Whitaker Foundation has funded the competition since 1995. Since thecompetition's inception in 19...ut the country. The deadline for entering the 1998 competition is August 1. Entries must beproduced and published or broadcast in the U.S. The contest year is Jul...The Fishing Hole Had Better Be Upstream From Commercial And Industrial Centers
...ge plants. Finally, tolerant species can have less competition for resourcesas other species are killed." However, he adds, "some pollution killseverything." Streams in primarily residential watersheds supported greater diversitythan streams in commercial or industrial areas, McTammany found. In the res...DFG To Set Up 14 New Collaborative Research Centres
...tion favours either growth processes and efficient competition withneighbouring plants or resistance to parasites. In the collaborative research centre "Growth orresistance to parasites? Competition for resources in agricultural and forestry cropplants " to be established at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University......elming impact on gene flow. First, there is little competition for thepasture trees for sunlight and nutrients, giving them superior abilities toflower and fruit. Second, the abundance of flowers may attract more hummingbirdsfor pollination. Finally, bats have easy pickings of the fruit and take themfrom the pas...Ecological Consequences Of Jasmonate-Induced Responses For Plants In Native Populations
...e fitness of well-defended plants when grown in competition with less-defended plants in environments lacking herbivores. For example, plants that are chemically well-defended may have a lower reproductive success than undefended plants due to difficulties in attracting pollinators. In short, indu...Soil Variation Important In Natural Plant Communities
... variable, or patchy. However, in studies of plant competition andsuccession, an assumption is usually made that the soil environment isrelatively homogeneous throughout the root systems of the interacting plants.Models that make this homogeneous assumption predict one species will eventuallyout-compete all othe......produces, then that trait should be favored in the competition for mates.Well-documented male traits favored by females include large size (to betterprotect her and her offspring) and a bigger territory (to provide more food).But there are confounding exceptions: many females have strong preferences formale trai...NSF teams with DOE to fund Environmental Molecular Science Institutes
...western and Princeton Universities in thisone-time competition will allow these institutes to be national models forcollaborative research in chemistry aimed at understanding the naturalenvironment and solving environmental problems. Awards to each EMSI site willaverage $1.4 million per year for five years with...... supported by survival signals. "Thissuggests that competition for growth factors mediated through the Hidprotein may indeed play a role in the programmed cell death that sculptstissues during development," says Steller. Furthermore, the Drosophila studies showed that the activity ofthe Ras protein—alrea...