Wolves alleviate impact of climate change on food supply, finds new UC Berkeley study
...mers, who conducted his work as a Ph.D. student in ecosystem sciences at UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resou...oth the effects of global warming on Yellowstone's ecosystem and the importance of the wolf in helping animals cope with the climate change. "Few studies have ...Mitsubishi offsets carbon footprint through investment in Madagascar's rain forest
...monstrate a viable market for some of the forest's ecosystem services. "The Expo is very meaningful, however, it is inevitable that big events like these produce additional greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, offsetting the additional greenhouse gas emissions in another part of the planet is environmentally respon...South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn
... of the Pantanal have remained pristine, today the ecosystem is under unprecedented pressure from economic deve... production and mining. The Pantanal's distinctive ecosystem is also increasingly under threat from tourism and over-fishing." Dr. Teixeira says the loss of trad...Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from lush grasslands to tundra
.... Add foxes, and the indirect effects on the whole ecosystem are as dramatic as the direct effects on the seabi...cts of introduced species can spread throughout an ecosystem in unpredictable ways," said Donald Croll, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biolog...Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment
...vironmental change, because they depend heavily on ecosystem services. In some places, such as sub-Saharan Afri...ting the trade-offs that accompany decisions about ecosystem services, it will identify priorities on local, regional and global scales. In a particular area, fo...Essential mangrove forest threatened by cryptic ecological degradation
...s into freshwater bodies. Such elucidation of past ecosystem processes and human-environment interactions is an essential part of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), funded by the U.S. and Swiss National Science Foundations as well as the National ...Global team member comments on landmark ecosystem report
...some 1,500 scientists studying the consequences of ecosystem change. The program was created by the United Nations and is supported by stakeholders such as the World Bank and the Convention on Biological Diversity. At a series of press conferences today, the group released its first report. It concludes that p...Earth's services in peril, report concludes
...ossible responses that might be adopted to improve ecosystem management and contribute to human well-being. "T...ies. "Everyone in the world depends on nature and ecosystem services to provide the conditions for a decent, healthy and secure life," Lubchenco said. "Humans h...Ecologist plays critical role in first global ecosystem study
...ientific knowledge, evolving trends and changes in ecosystem services both at the global and regional scale. Re...archers also monitored strengths and weaknesses in ecosystem management strategies worldwide, and developed integrated scenarios of the future. Carpenter co-chai......e ecosystem. Moreover, given the complexity of the ecosystem in the North Sea, herring and cod fish have also been used in the research. Umbrella effect According to the results obtained from the measurements, it is still too early to determine the effect of the platforms on the mussels. Nevertheless, the re...For sardine and anchovy, El Nio events do not always have the same effects
...the coasts of Peru and Chile, the Humboldt Current ecosystem is the world's most productive fishing zone. This ...hes. Unlike other large regions of upwelling, this ecosystem proves to be more exposed to variations in climate. Its geographical location brings it under the di...Research shows overfishing of sharks key factor in coral reef decline
...loped an unprecedented model of a Caribbean marine ecosystem and details of its intricate predator-prey interac... individual species protection and speak to larger ecosystem protection issues. "The paper presents a community-wide approximation of conservation problems," sai...Innovative collaboration brings Arctic science into the classroom
...h into his work. In June and July, Dr. Holmes, an ecosystem scientist with broad interests in the responses and feedbacks of ecosystems to environmental and global change, will travel from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to Canada and Alaska as part the PARTNERS program (Pan-Arctic River Transport of Nutrients, Or...The Academy of Natural Sciences investigates effects of climate change on Delaware tidal marshes
...ss the potential consequences of climate change on ecosystem function. With the 3-year grant, Drs. Melanie Vi...tidal marshes. Tidal marshes provide many valuable ecosystem services. They buffer storm and floodwaters, slow shoreline erosion, absorb excess nutrients before ...Hawaiian soils reveal clues to cultural history
... Chadwick belongs to a prominent research group in ecosystem studies at UCSB. His research utilizes Hawaii as a model ecosystem to understand changes in the sources of nutrients to rainforests. Chadwick explains that Hawaii is a...Whale bones and farm soil: Sequencing biodiversity
...source that can foster the growth of a flourishing ecosystem that contains specialized bacteria, whereas soil is an example of a complex microbial environment that can contain more than 3000 distinct species (most of them bacterial) in a half-gram sample. The scientists started by sequencing hundreds of thousa...New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem
...nhance current understanding of the complex marine ecosystem off New England and Canada's southeast coast. With...tists dedicated to understanding the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and its species. For decades, a vast and growing storehouse of knowledge about the Gulf of Maine has...Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs
...bject to the same climate factors and constructing ecosystem conditions going back hundreds of years," Hilborn says. Hilborn is co-leader of the Alaska Salmon Program with Thomas P. Quinn and Daniel Schindler, faculty with the UW's School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Another high research priority is expl...The state of river restoration in the US
... ecological success: set a guiding vision, measure ecosystem improvements, cause no permanent damage during implementation, create a sustainable ecosystem that requires minimal intervention, and conduct pre- and post-project assessments. "Doing a large gr...A new study examines how shared pathogens affect host populations
... potential mechanism linking host biodiversity and ecosystem functioning....