Chimpanzee stone tool site excavated
...zees collect rocks from various sources across the landscape and bring them to nut-cracking sites. This project has confirmed for the first time that archaeology can be successfully applied to the study of past chimpanzee behavior. The distribution of remains is not random, presenting very clear concentrations...Archaeological journey reveals new information on chimpanzee stone tool technology
...ple, collect rocks from various sources across the landscape and bring them to nut-cracking sites. The repeated occupation of the same site over many seasons allowed for the cracked nut shells and stone pieces that break off of the hammers to build up. The unearthed materials include more than 479 stone piece...Fungi help some trees weather acid rain, not all
... industrial pollution began to change the chemical landscape of the northeastern United States. The Hubbard Brook researchers were using stable isotope tracing to learn the sources of calcium in plant matter. They found that a significant proportion of calcium in some tree species (particularly conifers, beec...UC study links parasites in freshwater runoff to sea otter deaths
...nd yards by surface runoff after storms, or due to landscape irrigation," Miller explained. "Sea otters generally live near the shoreline, so they would be directly in the path of these biological pollutants if they reached the ocean. In addition, many of the prey species that otters feed on could potentially ...Clover strip-cropping in cotton provides critical habitat for threatened songbirds
...s fields with the living clover. The brown, barren landscape beneath the conventional cotton crop supported very few insects and offered no cover. "Many people fail to realize that cotton fields are wildlife habitat," said UGA wildlife researcher John Carroll. "The key now is understanding how we can integrate...Efficient plastic nuggets key to agricultural plastic waste disposal
...tively. The plastics found on farms, nurseries and landscape yards are a variety of plastics that would never be mixed in conventional recycling. Garthe's unconventional approach is to convert the various film and solid plastics into a plastic nugget that can be burned with coal in coal fired boilers, refuse-d...Rose breeding blooms from backyard to genetics lab
... learn more and to continue his goal of developing landscape roses that are essentially carefree." Bayse's visi...that determine whether a rose is easy to grow in a landscape such as disease resistance, fragrances and the everblooming trait. But that's not the only goal for...Muddy Mayan mystery made clearer by researchers working in the bajos
...yers, the team says, farming began to deforest the landscape as the Maya population escalated. With the forest ...ly the biggest culprit with the deforesting of the landscape and widespread quarrying to construct their cities." As profound as the bajos' transformation was, ...Without fire, red pines could disappear, model shows
...t composition, climate and soil, Scheller used the landscape simulation model LANDIS, which was developed at UW-Madison, to predict what might happen across the entire area if fire was reintroduced. Specifically, Scheller studied four scenarios over a 300-year time period: continued fire suppression and fires ...City birds prefer rich neighbors
...e environments for the study sites, with a similar landscape (grass, athletic fields, facilities and scattered trees) but significant differences in the surrounding neighborhoods. "What we are seeing is a pretty strong trend in the data," said Kinzig. "We can't explain bird diversity in the parks by the size o...UCI Samueli School researchers to study wetlands impact on coastal water quality
...research group will collect data on how: wetland landscape and circulation features affect fecal pollution levels; specific wetland intervention strategies, such as restoration of tidal flushing, influence coastal water quality; the wetland ecology influences pollutant removal rates; the surrounding water...Clash of values at crux of debate over landscape aesthetics
...f focus, according to Russ Parsons, a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urba...nd Urban Planning. "Government social scientists, landscape architects and environmental ethicists have all decried the management of public lands for 'scenic' ...US government commits $36 million to protect Congo's forests
... the region, as well as the U.S., have adopted the landscape conservation priorities based on good science and careful consultation with the people of the area," said Brooks Yeager, Vice President of WWF. "Saving these key areas will make all the difference for the future of rainforest wildlife in Africa." "T...UC researchers confirm coast redwood and Douglas fir as hosts for sudden oak death pathogen
...to the state, particularly to the timber, nursery, landscape and construction industries. The infected redwood saplings were found at Jack London State Park in Sonoma County and Henry Cowell State Park in Santa Cruz County. The infected Douglas firs were found at another site in Sonoma County. The researchers...Neighborhood socioeconomic status affects diversity of birds in parks, study finds
...eristics. "We think these will correlate with the landscape they create," Warren said, "the plants they put in their yards, bird feeders, bird watching, whether they have cats that roam." The height and types of vegetation and trees in the landscapes around the parks--whether it is of a native or imported va......rugatedsurface, like atoms sliding over the atomic landscape of a surface." What he and his colleagues observed in their movies was that thehydrogen bonds which held two, three or four water molecules together ina cluster forced the cluster into a geometric configuration that wasmismatched with the lattice of ...New insight into fragile X syndrome: Scientists identify possible link to RNAi
... in their expression patterns can alter the neural landscape in such a way as to result in mental retardation are needed, but as Dr. Siomi explains, "the link between the fragile X syndrome as a phenotype and a possible role for defects in an RNAi-related apparatus through loss of the FMR1 protein will likely ...Tourists, soothsayers & scientists try to predict peak Fall foliage color
...ge and red foliage most responsible for making the landscape look like a giant spilled his whole bowl of Trix cereal across the Green Mountains in October. Tourists spent more than $710 million dollars in Vermont last fall, making 1.5 million trips to the state, according to information gathered by the Univers...New map shows human 'footprint' covers most of the Earth
...said the paper's lead author Dr. Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist with WCS. "The map should be looked at ...dson River, and in India, where tigers share their landscape with one billion people. "This map can be used to set specific targets for action," according to ...Study predicts Amazon deforestation could affect climate in US
...Texas. "What we say here is that if you modify the landscape of the Amazon, it affects other parts of the world. It is not enough for a country to make national decisions about land use because it does not just affect the water resources of your own country." He and Werth are now looking for similar effects ...