Study Shows Songbirds Switch From Bugs To Berries To Fuel Fall Migration
...rish recently received his doctorate from Brown in ecology andevolutionary biology. He is now a diplomacy fellow with the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science and is working on environmentalissues in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union....Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
...ntist, has become a specialiston American mahogany ecology since first exploring the subject during 1987-92for her doctoral research at the Yale School of Forestry and EnvironmentalStudies. Searching the scant available publications,most dating from several decades earlier, she learned that the only truema...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...cripps Institution of Oceanography, will track the ecology of tiny animals -- zooplankton (floating) and micr...archea in the region this season, illuminating the ecology and biology of these mysterious organisms. Hot and Ultraviolet The greater amount of ultra...Bottom-up Ecological Processes Better For Clear Waters, Study Finds
...o be Jessica Gurevitch ,an associate professor of ecology and evolution at the State Universityof New York, ...he most important unanswered questions in food web ecology stillremain, according to Brett and Goldman. What determines how fast and howmuch energy moves throu...Bigger Biology Tackled Through Keyboards
...So it is with biological modeling in epidemiology, ecology and immunology.Scientists want to understand the behavior of the entire system, which ismediated by things happening on smaller and larger scales. When using models, it's important to understand their limits, Levin said.Day-to-day weather forecasts...Penn State Wetlands Project Seeks Scientific Evaluation Criteria
...To Robert Brooks, associate professor of wildlife ecology in Penn State's School of Forest Resources, "all wetlands are not created equal," and the results of a three-year study of 51 natural wetland sites in Pennsylvania have shown this to be true. Brooks, director of the Penn State Cooperative Wetlan...Scientists Trace Roots Of Protein That Keeps Antarctic Fish From Freezing
...e in the Antarctic fishes had a greatimpact on the ecology of the thermally isolated Antarctic Ocean that existstoday, DeVries said. "If they hadn't evolved this gene, then the AntarcticOcean may be quite devoid of fishes, and the food chain and marine ecosystemwould be very different." Joining DeVries and ......ty or quantity interact toinfluence the population ecology of herbivores," said Hunter."Data is often not collected at an appropriate scale to estimatethe effects of plant quality on herbivore populations." Hunter's study argues for the consistent collection oflong-term data sets, without which such ana...American Fisheries Society Conference Attracting 2,000 Plus Scientists To Explore "Interfacing"
...." Forty-four symposiua cover such topics as shark ecology and biology, educationaloutreach, introduced nuisance species, protection of vulnerable aquatic species,restoration of Pacific salmon populations, new fish passage technology, andcontributions of Native American traditional knowledge to modern fisher...Competitive Inhibition May Enhance Safety Of Minimally Processed Fruits And Vegetables
...article's authors. "Altering the normal microbial ecology of these productsthrough cutting, processing, modified-atmosphere packaging, and refrigeratedstorage may have the unintended effect of allowing the growth of pathogenicbacteria [without biocontrol]." Naturally found in fermented foods such as pickles...Presence Of Protein Extends Life; Potential Aging Mechanism Found
...he flies, said Tatar, now an assistantprofessor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University. Hsp70 is one of the body's many "chaperone" proteins, which promote theproper folding and shaping of other proteins during biological processes.Molecular chaperones, such as hsp70 or "heat-shock protein...Biodiversity Worth $2.9 Trillion
... a bargain," said David Pimentel, the professor of ecology who led eight graduate students in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences through a rigorous analysis to arrive at what he terms a conservative estimate. A previous study had valued the world's ecosystem services and natural capital at $...Guidelines For Next Generation Of Environmental Policy
...calinnovation, ecosystem protection and industrial ecology -- are based on thesepremises: To change ...tireecosystems. "The emerging field of industrial ecology explores technologicaland natural systems together, and looks at a product1s entire life cycle fromc...Conservation Biology Clearinghouse, Engineering Design Tutor
...forum. Begun in 1995 by Alan Thornhill, faculty in ecology and evolutionarybiology, while he was a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, the sitequickly established itself as a premier clearinghouse. Design with Feedback: Rice researchers are creating an Engineering Design Tutor, aWorl...Plants Thrive With Insect-Induced Immune Responses
...provide further informationabout the evolution and ecology of plant defenses and for development ofnon-chemical pest-control systems. Early research elsewhere has identified ahormone that appears to trigger the biochemical chain reaction that constitutesan immune response in plants. One product that makes ...Emerging Field Of Industrial Ecology
...ent ofScience in Philadelphia. "Industrial ecology is not merely some feel-good movement, but a vital...design and development activity centers. The word ecology impliesthat one should conserve and reuse resources of all kinds." The industrial process h...Smithsonian Institution Convenes Experts To Discuss Cocoa's Future
...ropical marine and terrestrial organisms and human ecology for more than half a century....Desert Researcher Receives Environmental Award
...to physiology to molecular genetics, encompass the ecology andexobiology of microorganisms, and in geographic diversity from North and SouthAmerica, to the Middle East, Africa and Antarctica. The award, which is made for the purpose of stimulating research and developmentin applied microbiology (excluding cl...Infant Dependency Drives Menopause, NSF-Supported Researcher Reports
...ant professor in the BrownUniversity department of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Antony Collins, aresearch director at Gombe Stream Research Centre in Tanzania.......s to enhance thesafety of fresh produce, microbial ecology in fruits and vegetables, and anoverview of current microbiological perspectives on fresh produce. On Wed., May 13, good agricultural practices and postharvest handling offresh fruits and vegetables will be examined. Topics will include crop...