NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...d genes. To explain the complex signals and feedbacks among neurons, muscles, the skeleton and the whole...Systems Biology," studying the complex signals and feedbacks among neurons, muscles, the skeleton and the whole body that make movement possible -- University of...Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
... "Most important, I am working to characterize the feedbacks between climate change and ecosystems -- as sources and sinks of greenhouse gases and how the surface of the land affects things like albedo," the degree to which solar radiation is reflected. "These are key factors in radiative forcing, the basis of...Better living through urban ecology
... allow us to investigate the ecological and social feedbacks underlying urban ecology discoveries," One of the project's goals is to include this growing and often misunderstood ecosystem type in the public dialogue about the metropolitan environment. Working with partners, including the Parks & People Founda...What actually influences air pollution over the Indian Ocean?
...lution over the Indian Ocean. This work shows that feedbacks in atmospheric chemistry can result in downwind regions being highly insensitive to upwind emissions: that is, a 50% reduction in global emissions of NOx - from all sources - might only lead to a 15% reduction in NOx levels over parts of the Indian O...AGU journal highlights - 6 January 2004
...x andtemperatures. Title: The role of biospheric feedbacks in the simulation of theimpact of historical land cover change on the Australian Januaryclimate Authors: Gerry T. Narisma, A. J. Pitman, J. Eastman, I. G. Watterson, R. Pielke Sr., A. Beltran-Przekurat, Macquarie University, North Ryde,New South Wal...Changing global nitrogen cycle impacting human health, says Colorado University-led study
... and evolutionary biology department. "Ecological feedbacks to excess nitrogen can inhibit crop growth, increase allergenic pollen production and potentially affect the dynamics of several vector-borne diseases, including West Nile virus, malaria and cholera," the researchers wrote. A paper on the subject ap...January GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...imental studies is important for understanding the feedbacks that developed among magmatism, metamorphism and deformation as continental lithosphere evolves during cycles of orogenesis.......al selection, should be rethought to include these feedbacks on a global scale. We hope that our hypothesis will be tested by looking more closely at the extant geologic record of the proposed transition as well as the insights from the study of photosynthesis and molecular biology of modern organisms," says S...Information technology provides biologists with new tools for biodiversity conservation
...thodology for this unprecedented assessment of the feedbacks between ecology and human decision-making. Reid will outline this methodology, which integrates perspectives from local, national and regional scales with data collected at the global scale by remote sensing and modeling. Thomas Lovejoy, Senior Advi...Scientists share multidisciplinary discoveries at 'Earth System Processes'
...nburgh Research Station, will speak about positive feedbacks in the global carbon cycle that may make it more difficult for the oceans and atmosphere to absorb anthropogenic CO2 in the future. Gary Hughes, from Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing in California, will talk about a direct, empirical correlation...Carbon sequestration: seeing the forest for its trees
...rom land use or climate changes may have important feedbacks to terrestrial carbon sequestration," Kaye says. "We still need to learn more about how species composition may be affecting the soil of these and other forests in order to fully understand their ability to act as carbon sinks." This study is part o...Carbon cycling and species composition: seeing the forest for its trees
...rom land use or climate changes may have important feedbacks to terrestrial carbon sequestration," Kaye says. "We still need to learn more about how species composition may be affecting the soil of these and other forests in order to fully understand their ability to act as carbon sinks."...Spring meeting press conferences
....) carbon sinks and appraisals of potential future feedbacks between climate change and carbon cycling. These developments will provide technical background for announcing the U.S. Carbon Cycle Research Program. This program began with a grassroots plan developed within the research community to address large ......y amplified byresulting atmospheric and vegetation feedbacks in the subtropics. The timing ofthis transition wa...odel of intermediate complexity to analyze climate feedbacks during the pastseveral thousand years of the current, or Holocene, era. Called CLIMBER-2 (forCLIMate...Can Plants Influence The Climate?
... 1998. The Science Scientists are studying the feedbacks between vegetation and climate usingcomputer model...he terrestrial vegetation to investigatevegetation feedbacks on climate is still in its infancy. Dr. J. Foley(University of Wisconsin, USA) will speak about the ......d the report. "Biological processes have powerful feedbacks to processes that are normally thought to be purely physical or chemical in nature." While lakes occupy a very small area of the planet's surface, the discovery that simple biotic change is capable of altering the exchange of carbon between the a...