Once thought extinct, Siamese crocodile is photographed in Siam
...id Lynam, who has studied tigers and other cryptic fauna in Thailand since 1990. "It was number 37 on a roll of 36 exposure film. The other pictures on the film included otters, macaques and a Buddhist monk on walkabout in the forest."...Field Museum plays vital role in creation of huge new park
...and animal species. The park is rich in flora and fauna because the elevation of the area varies so much ...rpose of an RBI is to quickly assess the flora and fauna of a threatened environmental area. Local and international policymakers use the results to set cons...Penn paleontologists locate a new genus of colossal dinosaur along an ancient coastline
...his research. "The Egyptian material represents a fauna that is widely found across North Africa, all the way to Morocco in the west, but it documents the dinosaurs much better than the other occurrences, which have usually only yielded isolated bones and teeth." In addition to evidence of dinosaurs, Smit...Joint research project to improve butterfly identification system
... that uses citizen spotters to track the flora and fauna of Illinois in this case, to monitor the comings and goings, numbers and species of butterflies in the state....Analysis of impact studies reveals how bottom fishing affects seafloor denizens
...nable to determine the original composition of the fauna because data gathered prior to the era of intensive bottom fishing are sparse," said Collie. "This is an important consideration because recent analyses of the few existing historical datasets suggest that larger bodied fish and invertebrates were mo...Restoring wetlands much more than 'just add water'
...ease, but they won't regain their former flora and fauna without a huge effort, according to research at the University of Minnesota. In what may be the largest study of wetlands restored in agricultural landscapes, Susan Galatowitsch, an associate professor of horticulture, and John Mulhouse, an assistant...California gnatcatcher: Umbrella species failure?
...le vertebrate species as an umbrella for the whole fauna of California coastal sage scrub is flawed," says Daniel Rubinoff of the University of California at Berkeley in the October issue of Conservation Biology. "Insects are almost never considered in conservation planning, the idea being that...because t...Wealth of new species discovered from the abyssal plains of the Atlantic Ocean
...ho have been collaborating to collect and describe fauna from an expedition in June 2000 to survey deep-sea organisms along a 700km transect, at a depth of 5000m, in the Angola Basin. One of the project leaders, Dr. Wolfgang Wgele of Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, Germany, said the preliminary findings presented ...First global-scale assessment of biodiversity beneath our feet
...ance understanding of large-scale distributions of fauna that dwell in soil and litter. Even at small scale...he world, for which all species of soil and litter fauna have been described. The dearth of information on belowground species is partly because of their she...December Media Mighlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...sity and abundance of skeleton-secreting sedentary fauna in this postextinction community. Profound changes...d coinciding with a mass extinction of terrestrial fauna and flora. This occurs within a sedimentary sequence that is marked by a reddening of floodplain mud......aight down to the abyssal depths. The invertebrate fauna had not been studied there since the days of pioneering research by missionaries over 100 years ago. An array of collection approaches was used, including diving, drag-netting and harvesting specimens at low tide. This wide-ranging biological survey...February media highlights - GSA Bulletin
... isolated seaways and bays to display impoverished fauna (perhaps due to geographic barriers and environmental instabilities inherent to marginal bays and seaways). The two marine bioprovinces differed dramatically in type of dominant shellfish. This is consistent with recent paleogeographic reconstruction...Information technology provides biologists with new tools for biodiversity conservation
...just nine sites. "The enormous diversity of litter fauna once made global studies impossible," said Wall "but we use new 3-D imaging techniques and send images to colleagues around the world to accelerate identification and make the survey tractable." Oliver Ryder, a zoologist from the Zoological Society......eening Australia and CSIRO to survey the flora and fauna on the farms and along the roadsides of this fertile farming region. The result of the survey is a checklist of biodiversity that amazed landholders and scientists. Over 100 bird species were recorded, as well as 145 different types of ants, over 250...Chinese tallow tree invades Texas prairies
...airies, those species and their associated animal fauna will not come back. One of the reasons this tree has been able to grow so well is that insects have left it alone and munched on other foliage. Siemann said this is particularly peculiar because unlike the slow-growing tallow tree found in China...Proliferation of Argentine ants in California linked to decline in coastal horned lizards
...re to avoid fragmenting the landscape, the natural fauna of the area won't be preserved. "Even though we're setting aside open spaces as we develop in southern California, that open space may not have all of the natural characteristics that we had hoped to preserve. It may look the same. The major plan...Ethiopian fossil skull indicates Homo erectus was single, widespread species 1 million years ago
...erest and the subject of his thesis is the diverse fauna of the site, which included numerous species of pi...hants, hippos, a giant hyena and a large cat. "The fauna there a million years ago was in many ways very similar to a modern African fauna," he said. "This i...Traditional floodplain forest restoration may decrease bird diversity
...nd species."Ultimately, the diversity of flora and fauna in the floodplain may relyon preserving and restoring natural flood cycles to the river system,"says Gabbe....Ocean ecosystems only altered following two great mass extinctions
...uthors simply compare the proportion of the marine fauna that is motile, or capable of moving around, versus the proportion that is sedentary or attached and doesn't move. "The difference is important for several reasons," says Bambach. "For instance, non-mobile organisms all need to get food brought to th......ential effects of climate change on the vertebrate fauna of the wet tropics of Australia, especially the 72 species endemic to the region. While a conservative scenario of a 1E C temperature rise would result in the direct loss of only one endemic, a perhaps more likely rise of 3.5E could cause the loss of...