Integrated animal model answers questions about environment
...l that could predict how animals, living on a real landscape anywhere on Earth, would respond to specific changes in the environment. The model could answer questions, such as how warmer temperatures would alter the activity patterns of squirrels in southern California or how removing the forest canopy in Yell...The President's FY 2005 budget for USGS highlights
...logy, and projects that support science on the DOI landscape that will assist land and natural resource managers in making decisions based on science. "This marks the 125th year the people of USGS have served America through exploration and scientific study. In FY 2005, we will put emphasis on providing scie...Century may bring unprecedented climate change to southern hemisphere
...est. The result will be an increasingly fragmented landscape that presents barriers to the dispersal of wildlife, trapping them in increasingly inhospitable climatic conditions....Money talks: Concern for biodiversity pressed on boardrooms by new breed of fund managers
...and minerals), part of a radically changing global landscape confronting corporations especially those in need of access to new territories and resources. The new statistics showing the strength of fund managers pursuing socially responsible investment (SRI) represent one of several signals in boardrooms that...Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
...olas School assistant professor of the practice of landscape ecology who focuses on geospatial technologies, such as geographic information systems (GIS) and satellite remote sensing. "Biologists are collecting data from ship surveys or aerial surveys, or tagging animals and tracking them through time. But we ...Leave land alone following natural disasters, say researchers
...y recreating some of the structural complexity and landscape diversity lost through previous intense management of natural resources. For example, floods can reshape areas and revitalize human-modified aquatic ecosystems while major wildfires generate significant volumes of dead snags and downed trees that pro......festyle that is closely tied to and dependent upon landscape conditions. Native traditional knowledge, an integ...historic impacts of land use and climate change on landscape conditions in the Tsezhin Bii' region of the Navajo Nation; to discriminate between the impacts of c...Baker's yeast rises from genome duplication
... If incremental evolution over millennia is like a landscape changing through erosion, whole genome duplication is like an earthquake. "Direct study of such a cataclysmic event may provide major insights into the dynamics of genome evolution and the emergence of new functions," the authors wrote. UNCOVERING T...Rwanda's primate-rich forests now a national park
...recently established Nyungwe National Park, a rich landscape that contains 13 different types of primate, along... on Nyungwe's primate species. "Setting aside this landscape for conservation is a testament to the nation's commitment to their natural heritage and an investme...Undisturbed Amazonian forests are changing, say scientists
...00 trees in the central Amazon, scattered across a landscape of 120 square miles in area. During the course of the study, most species of trees began growing faster. The forests also became more dynamic, with existing trees dying faster and being replaced by young new trees. Even more important is that the sp...Tigers: Big cats need cat food
...t comes to macro-ecological studies on far-ranging landscape species like tigers and their prey, the biological, statistical and practical problems involved have proved too daunting in the past, compelling scientists to draw weak inferences, usually based on secondary data," said Dr. Karanth. "We tackled this...Office Depot partners with Conservation Organizations to incorporate science into paper procurement
...vation decisions made on the ground, at the forest landscape level," said Steve McCormick, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. "We will use our expertise to help integrate scientific knowledge and leading edge biodiversity conservation planning into forest management decision-making." While most fo...Gene-rich human Chromosome 19 sequence completed
... the genome-wide average, it also offers a fertile landscape for exploring evolutionary motifs, said JGI Director Eddy Rubin. An intriguing picture has emerged regarding conservation and divergence, revealing large blocks of gene conservation with rodents as well as segments of coding and noncoding conservatio...Chestnut trees to spread across landscape again, says Purdue scientist
...ldlife tree and timber resource that dominated the landscape from Maine to Mississippi before it was driven to near-extinction by a fungal disease introduced about 100 years ago.Doug Jacobs, assistant professor of forestry in the Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center at Purdue and director of the I...World's largest tiger reserve declared in Myanmar
...kawng Valley Tiger Reserve a model of large-scale, landscape conservation, where both tigers and humans can benefit from careful protection and management of natural resources," Rabinowitz said.The Hukawng Valley Tiger Reserve is now part of Myanmar's Northern Forest Complex, a network of four contiguous prote...'Knock out' rose receives Texas superstar and earthkind designation
DALLAS -- It has been called the perfect landscape shrub. Virtually disease-free, Knock Out rose has ... trial testing to demonstrate they add beauty to a landscape with minimal maintenance and maximum protection for the environment. Knock Out was first introduced...Global warming and the onward march of the pine
...l tree line dynamics driven by climate change on a landscape scale in both time and space. The Earth's climate has warmed approximately 0.6C over the past 100 years and the rate of warming looks set to accelerate. Alpine tree lines are assumed to be particularly sensitive to climate change, with high mountain ...Rutgers ecologists and Brooklyn Botanic Garden botanists to plan Beijing Olympics Forest Park
...in partnership with Sasaki Associates, the eminent landscape architecture and planning company, the CURE team f...cipal Commission of Urban Planning. Presently, the landscape design plan is being implemented on the vast site. CURE was invited to contribute the ecological and...Sediments in many Central Valley streams contain toxic levels of pyrethroid pesticides
...unds were used for structural and pest control and landscape maintenance. Despite this increased use, environmental monitoring still concentrates on organophosphates, he said. Monitoring also tends to focus on concentrations in the water column, under the assumption that sediment-bound chemicals like pyrethroi...Dramatic decline of California native frog linked to introduced trout in mountain lakes
...udy in 1996 in the Sixty Lake Basin, a bare, rocky landscape between 10,000 and 11,500 feet in elevation that i...ame began dropping fish out of airplanes, that the landscape really changed. The reason there were no native fish in lakes above 6,000 feet is that they couldn't...