Field Museum awarded $5.2 million for community-based conservation in Peru
...diversity of habitats in the park has a remarkable richness of plant and animal life and natural communities of global importance. Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul was created in 2001 with the help and scientific expertise of The Field Museum. A rapid biological inventory found more than 1,600 species of plan...Invading species have tough time cracking diverse neighborhood
...es, legumes and forbs. In general, as the species richness of established plants increased. introduced plants from any guild did more poorly. Using statistics to tease out the repellant effects of individual plant guilds, the researchers found that each guild was most effective at limiting the success of int...Earthworm invasion will change forests
...ween 10 percent and 20 percent lower plant species richness when compared to plots with few or no earthworms. Where earthworms had invaded, a sedge (Carex pensylvanica) had proliferated. The sedge finds it difficult to grow in leaf litter, but when earthworms have eaten away the litter, the sedge thrives. "T...Thorough, searchable database of human proteins unveiled
...body and links to the papers that say so. "The richness of the database is astounding, since it was created in such a short time by expert reviews of individual publications," says Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D., director of the McKusick-Nathans Institute and a co-author on the paper. "This would have been i...NIH funds 'Breast Cancer and the Environmental Research Center' at Fox Chase Cancer Center
...study. The study will also draw from the cultural richness of the community to support activities that enhance the experience of the young girls participating in the study and their parents. "We will develop and coordinate on-site educational workshops and activities for the young girls and their parents w...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
...ionship between deep-sea species diversity and the richness of food productivity in the water column and help predict the effects of global warming. Degradation of coral reef ecosystems began centuries ago, but no global summary of the magnitude of the change that occurred has ever previously existed. Ext...Looking beyond biodiversity to explain community invasibility
... the experimental literature, they found that when richness was related to invasion dynamics, it enhanced rather than impeded invasion. A mixture of factors, including resident species composition, total community cover, and species richness, determined invasion control. This research, published in the upcomi...National ocean commissioners & scientists call for overhaul of ocean policies & management
... destructive changes to the oceans and restore the richness and resilience of our seas. Reports from these two... evidence that show we are squandering the ocean's richness through neglect and mismanagement. While allocating dollars to further our understanding of Mars is ...Plant, bird and butterfly species dwindling in the United Kingdom, researchers report
...e most likely reason for reduced grassland species richness in parts of the United Kingdom, and possibly elsew...hich could best explain the variability in species richness from one site to the next. Their results showed that the effects of nitrogen deposition could accoun...Eastern lowland gorilla population plummets 70 percent since 1994
...ga Landscape, contains a high degree of biological richness and species endemism. Although a protected area since 1938, Maiko National Park has been widely recognized as an ineffective "paper park" with no real protection. Other species that call the area home, such as the chimpanzee, forest elephant, Nile cr...Study helps explain island populations' susceptibility to exotic diseases
...e size of the population. Island size and parasite richness then influenced the strength of the immune response of the hosts. The researchers tested two types of immune responses---cell-mediated responses and production of antibodies--in four populations of Darwin's finches. By challenging the birds immune s...Report outlines steps needed to lessen smallpox threat
...nction. "We felt that there is enough intellectual richness in the field -- both at the level of cell biology and at the level of virus-host interactions -- that there's good reason to offer support and encouragement to get the best young scientists excited about the field," said Harrison. The report also emp...Evidence for the impact of climate change on deep-sea biodiversity
...ufficient to induce significant changes in species richness and functional diversity. They conclude that deep-sea fauna is highly vulnerable to environmental alteration, and that very minor temperature shifts in deep-water masses can rapidly and significantly alter both structural and functional deep-sea bio...Discovery of new shrimp species adds to unique family
...g things as well as determine the biodiversity, or richness in variety, in an area. Description is "the basis of all biological, phylogenetic and evolutionary study," Anker said. After description "we can make a lot of hypotheses and assumptions about the evolution of a genus--it's a lot more interesting th...ConocoPhillips & Conservation International launch 'Biodiversity Action Plan' in Venezuela
...ocated in a very important area for marine species richness which many communities in the region rely on for t...of Paria to be particularly high in marine species richness and endemism, i.e. species found nowhere else. Following the AquaRAP, two "Threats and Opportunities...Hidden diversity: DNA 'barcoding' reveals a common butterfly is actually 10 different species
... to document the health of the environment and the richness of global biodiversity."...