University of Cincinnati researchers track climate changes in Arctic thaw lakes
...nd their basins, which make up the majority of the landscape on the Arctic Coastal Plain. That's why University...hem. "It is not even known exactly how much of the landscape is composed of drained thaw lake basins," says Eisner. "Until now, no systematic examination of drai...Earth's 'last edens' receive $20 million boost
...ment of wildlife. In most instances, they contain landscape species wide-ranging animals whose influence on t...protected areas. However, the biological needs of landscape species seasonal migration patterns, for example often take them outside existing parks and reserv...Past fire regime is key to managing chaparral fires in southern California
...lands, where large, high-intensity fires sweep the landscape each year, threatening lives and homes. Researcher...gime was one of frequent small fires that formed a landscape patchwork as a barrier to large, catastrophic crown fires. They questioned the earlier claim that de...December media highlights - GSA BULLETIN
... Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods, creating a landscape of closed basins dominated by lakes and fringing deltas, rivers, and alluvial fans. The extensional deformation likely reflects the resolution of stresses transmitted to the interior of the Asian continent from tectonic activity along continental mar...Like storm clouds, natural disasters carry a silver lining, biologist says
... be an unmitigated disaster, devastating an entire landscape and rendering it lifeless. But even there, on the ...ds lead to rainforest ruin and how paving over the landscape for mall after mall leads to more frequent and severe flooding of urban streams. Niles Eldredge of ...UNC botanist spearheads ongoing effort to curtail movement of pest plant species
...ver actions by botanical gardens, plant nurseries, landscape architecture, public gardeners and governments. E... White said. Participants from gardens, nurseries, landscape architecture and the gardening public all contributed constructively to a consensus. We think it rep...18th Century Reverend enlightens evolutionary biologists
...r to walk around, according to certain rules, in a landscape defined by the relative probability of different e... By allowing the computer to jump between a normal landscape and heated landscapes, in which hilltops and valleys are less clearly separated, the computer can qu...Outside-in conservation: What's around an area
...ity of the matrixmay be key to conservation at the landscape level," they say. For tropical mountain forests, this means promoting shade-grown coffee.Coffee prices are at a 30-year low and many small producers areconverting coffee farms to cattle pasture, subsistence crops or evencoca, says Perfecto. One way t......t in the western Amazon. As a result of such high landscape variation, parts of Panama have as many or even mo... Amazonia. Ecologists have a technical term for landscape variation in forest types: beta-diversity, Condit explained. Beta-diversity is high when forests c...Long term lessons from Amazonia
... plant communities: Synthesis and implications for landscape management" and "Principles of forest fragmentation and conservation in the Amazon" (with Bierregaard, Gascon, Julieta Benitez-Malvido, Philip M. Fearnside, Carlos R. Fonseca, Gislene Ganade, Jay R. Malcolm, Marlucia B. Martins, Scott Mori, Marcio Ol......ortant in regulating the flow of water through the landscape and we know that, by holding back water, they contribute to the dry-season flow of coastal rivers said team member Dr David McJannet. Now we have clear evidence of another role, cloud-stripping, in which the forest actually harvests large volumes of...The new biology of rocks: 'Are there medical implications of geomicrobiology?'
...t microbial life could dwell on or under a similar landscape on Mars or in the ice-covered seas of Europa and Ganymede, two of Jupiters moons. Interestingly, while the early Viking and Mariner space probes were gathering data from Mars in the 1970s, scientists on Earth were discovering bacteria and the Archae...How cold! New partnership to use chilled neutrons
...d forexploring the disordered, continuallychanging landscape of cell membranes. "Cold neutrons provide a powerful toolfor studying cell membrane systems,"says White, "but the demand for beam time at the handful of neutronfacilities in the United States is sogreat that the tool was nearlyunavailable for this ki......irst half of the 20th century but, as the thirsty landscape soaks up more moisture, this has led to a 40 per cent reduction in inflow to Perths dams. At the start of this summer, the dams were less than a third of capacity. The immediate cause, says Dr Bates, is a clearly discernible climate shift that took p...Small research big on Illinois campus
...e want to draw from the richness of the biological landscape to provide starting materials that can be linked with microfluidic devices on patterned structures and tailored for highly specific sensor applications. The UIs emphasis on nanotechnology is also reflected in other ways, such as the recent renaming o...Forest fragmentation and birds
...bird numbers, they say, regional numbers, regional landscape patterns, and dispersal should be considered as im... understanding of what drives birds to inhabit one landscape versus another....Intels Gordon Moore and CIs Claude Gascon to receive major award
...razil, the first to address cutting-edge issues of landscape design for biodiversity conservation on a large-scale. In the more than 15 years of his involvement with this project, it has received wide acclaim from a variety of scientific disciplines and from the Brazilian and U.S. governments. As one of the fe...UF expert: ancient fossil suggests flowers may be underwater gift
...ate, and scientists know that volcanoes dotted the landscape because the specimen was found in layers of ash beds....CF Foundation seizes proteomics for drug discovery
...e study of proteins made by genes, is changing the landscape of biomedical research. Proteins are the workhorses of the cell, creating and directing cell functions; therefore, abnormal protein interactions are associated with malfunctioning cells that characterize diseases like CF. Correcting the defective pro...... diverse and growing population scattered across a landscape that frequently burns, Florida provides an excellent study area. With an estimated 16 million inhabitants in 2000, Florida is the fourth most populous state in the USand a place where prescribed fire is used extensively to manage forests and to preve...