Scientists Trek to Africa for Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...f biospheric and atmospheric chemistry in tropical rainforests will culminate in December, when National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported scientists complete a rare study of the African atmosphere. Ground-based and tower-mounted instruments and a research aircraft will support studies of biomass burning, rain...Scientists Discover Smallest Frog
...ew species of snakes, lizards, and frogs in Cuba's rainforests over the past several years, including a lizard tied for the world's tiniest. Says Hedges, "You don't often find species that are the smallest, especially in a big group like tetrapods." Cuban scientists restricted by that country's economic...Can The Economic Promise Of Drug Discovery Continue To Preserve The Suriname Forest?
...o be short-termincentives to reduce destruction of rainforests -- to counter the poverty thatcontributes to the loss of biodiversity, the researchers pointed out in theirprogress report. Loss of biodiversity through deforestation not only removes materialsthat could be used to create pharmaceuticals, bu...Fruit-Eating Birds Discovered Crucial To Rainforest Survival
...ISCO, Calif., Aug. 6, 1998 -- The fate of tropical rainforests inWestern and Central Africa depends in large part...Cameroon study. "If we have anyhope of protecting rainforests we need to protect not just the pattern ofbiodiversity but also the processes that create it. Our w...Four More Lemurs To Be Released Into Madagascar Jungle This Fall
...llations. They can only survive inprimary tropical rainforests and are not able to adapt to cleared land orsecondary forest. Madagascar is one of the world's poorest nations and a major priorityfor conservationists. Its once-rich array of wildlife has been decimated byhabitat destruction, and by its grow...History Of The Rainforest Told In Song
The history of Australia's magnificent tropical rainforests is being decipheredfrom an utterly original medium - the music of the birds which have inhabited itfor millennia. "The songs of upland bower birds vary uniquely from place to place - and are asculturally distinct from one another as regional dialects...In Logged Forests, Hunting of Wildlife Becomes Deadly 'Second Harvest'
... areas. Even recent policies that seek to protect rainforests through "sustainable forestry," rather than outright protection, haveunintentionally added to the bushmeat problem. In tropical Africa, WCS estimates that the annual harvest of bushmeatexceeds one million metric tons -- much of it the result...Biologists work to preserve rainforests endangered plants
...e Plair recently returned from anexpedition to the rainforests of Costa Rica where they experimented with newtechniques to collect and preserve tropical plants. Pence and Plair have been working for the last several years to develop moreeffective techniques to collect endangered plants. Their previous field sit...'Keys to cures' -- an online expedition to the frontier of biomedical research
...e on earth is biodiversity greaterthan in tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Reefs, like rainforests, arethreatened by human activities. However, reefs remain hidden underwater--out of sight and often out of mind. The biodiversity surveyby Pomponi and her colleagues will be the first ever at depths attaina...Rainforest birds keep dying out long after logging stops
Fragmented rainforests can keep losing biodiversity for a century, according tonew research in the October issue of Conservation Biology. While the bad news isthat many more species are likely to go extinct, the good news is that we can save them if weact now. "There is n...Seeds suffer in rainforest fragments
... fall to the ground in small fragments of tropical rainforests are three to seven times less likely to sprout than those that fall in larger, continuous forests. "Rainforest fragments are subject to many conditions, called 'edge effects,' that make them less hospitable to germinating seeds," said Emilio Bruna, a...Lizard research bolsters theory that forest edges are hotbeds of speciation
...ard, prevalent throughout Australia's wet tropical rainforests and dry open forests, lead author Chris Schneider ...reserving the processes that maintain diversity in rainforests is fundamental to effective conservation, the researchers are launching a comprehensive investigatio...ASU scientists probe salamander mysteries
...oads have completely disappeared from the highland rainforests of Panama, after being infected not by a virus, but by a fungus. The microscopic water-borne fungus, called a chytrid, has also wiped out frogs in Australia and the National Zoo, and has made recent appearances in frogs in Arizona. In 1998, Davidson,...RX for Hawaii's dry forests: no cows and lots of hard work
...hored this paper. Hawaii has lost about 40% of its rainforests but more than 90% of its dry forests, which get only about 20 inches of rain per year. One of Hawaii's largest remaining areas of dry forest is in the North Kona region. However, the forest is broken into small fragments and most of these have been ...Stanford study supports novel rainforest protection plan
...orsed a proposal to include protection of tropical rainforests in the United Nations CDM program. The proposal...astating consequences for the people who depend on rainforests for food, medicine and shelter. But the authors point to the Masoala National Park in the African ...Biologists find Peruvian plants inhibit growth of TB bacterium
... Louis studying medicinal plants from the Peruvian rainforests have come across results that may significantly in...iversity, have made numerous trips to the Peruvian rainforests since the early 1980s to learn about the medicinal plants used by the native tribes. The Aguaruna, ...Scientists track phosphate to better understand global warming
...warm, dry woods of the Sierra Nevada and cool, wet rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. In addition to traditional analytic techniques, she uses nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to identify the kinds and amounts of phosphorus compounds that are distributed throughout forests. She also is collaborat...Chemical may deter starfish from devouring endangered coral reefs
...saving medicines, coral reefs have been called the rainforests of the sea. These rich ecosystems are rapidly disappearing. An estimated 27 percent of the world's coral reefs have already been destroyed, according to the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, an organization established to assess and improve reef ......ifferent ecosystems on the planet such as deserts, rainforests and coral reefs. Diana Wall, biologist at Colorado State University, USA and Chair of the IBOY, emphasizes how little is known about biodiversity. "Scientists have described about 1.75 million species but we estimate that there are over 12 million sp...Passport, please: A global strategy to curb invasive species
...into effect. Crazy ants form supercolonies in the rainforests of Christmas Island, changing the habitat and preying on the animals of the forest floor. The alien star thistle outcompetes native desert grasses of California. ``The range-lands of the west are being taken over by noxious weeds causing enormous f...