Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish
...e Southern Ocean, playing an important role in the ecosystem there, providing sustenance to whales and seals. Toothfish dwell in deep waters on the edge of coastal shelves and sea mounts. Individual toothfish can live for 40 years but take a decade to reach adulthood: their slow-maturing character makes them ...Removing egg from nest may help save endangered whooping crane
...ecological-process management if components of the ecosystem are missing," said Boyce....ORNL scientists looking at nature in a new way
...lying on genomic-based approaches to understanding ecosystem responses that are scalable across levels of biolo... scaling processes from the molecular level to the ecosystem is hotly debated in the scientific community," Jacobs said. "Some argue that scaling in this manner ...Finally, male water fleas exposed
... learn more about species diversity and freshwater ecosystem changes." The male-inducing tool now will be used to understand water flea species diversity on a global scale. Co-authors on the paper are Keonho Kim, doctoral candidate in the UB Department of Biological Sciences, and Alexey A. Kotov, Ph.D., scie...ORNL-led study shows forests thrive with increased CO2 levels
...valuable as a benchmark to evaluate predictions of ecosystem and global models. "Climate change predictions are dependent on assumptions about the interaction between the biosphere and atmosphere," Norby said. "However, the contribution of carbon dioxide fertilization to the future carbon global carbon cycle h...Pollination networks key to ecosystem sustainability
...'s unclear how declining biodiversity will disturb ecosystem dynamics. Of special concern are the pollinators, essential players in the reproductive biology of plants, the earth's primary producers. These mutually beneficial relationships are sometimes so specialized that the loss of one species threatens the ...Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food
...ars," said Becker. "Now, more people are taking an ecosystem approach, considering how harvesting one species will impact other species that rely upon it. However, so little is known about the diet of the murrelet that a study like this is important in informing fishery management decisions." "Our study also h...3,317 and counting (the number of marine species in the Gulf of Maine)
...with each other and their surroundings to make the ecosystem work." The searchable register for the Gulf of Ma...other step toward managing the Gulf of Maine as an ecosystem one of the primary goals of fisheries laws in the U.S. and Canada and of recent ocean commissions. ...Logging may hinder forest regeneration, increase fire risk
...e report said. "Postfire logging may conflict with ecosystem recovery goals," the authors concluded....Lots of flowers and trees, not enough birds and bees
...y hotspots are an important world resource for the ecosystem services they provide, including medicine, food, nutrient cycling, and alternative resources for pollinators of domesticated crops," Ashman said. Further research will be done to determine what causes pollen limitation worldwide. When many species e...Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science
...n cycling and its role in the evolving patterns of ecosystem productivity and diversity." The award is supported by Annual Reviews Inc., the Institute for Scientific Information, and THE SCIENTIST in honor of J. Murray Luck and has been presented since 1979. GILBERT MORGAN SMITH MEDAL a medal and prize of ...Marine scientists going down for the count
...nown by providing a web-site for global coral reef ecosystem biodiversity....WHSRN announces three new international sites
...irie dogs in the world that is the keystone of the ecosystem found there. For example, the burrows created by the prairie dogs attract Burrowing Owls. Also, because of the grass height maintained by the herbivores, the area attracts two extremely important birds to the area: the Mountain Plover--a greatly at...Two new lakes found beneath Antarctic ice sheet
...ate that, as suspected with Lake Vostok, an exotic ecosystem may still be thriving in the icy waters 35 million..., environment that may harbor an ancient and alien ecosystem adapted to life beneath the ice sheet. However, just how, when or even whether scientists will risk ...Scientist named first Ruth Patrick Chair in Environmental Science
... contributions Dr. Patrick has made in determining ecosystem health and providing practical recommendations for sustaining ecosystems. Patrick, who began her long association with the Academy as a graduate student in 1933, is a world-renowned authority in freshwater ecology. She developed pioneering studies on...UC Riverside researchers identify clay as major contributor to oxygen that enabled early animal life
...ion of the land surface by a primitive terrestrial ecosystem (possibly involving fungi) accelerated clay formation, as happens in modern soils. Upon being washed down to the sea, the clay minerals were responsible for preserving more organic matter in marine sediments than had been the case in the absence of ...Pitt professor's article considers nature as a service provider
...t," uses several case studies to illustrate how an ecosystem management perspective can aid in management decis...anagement alternatives on the delivery of specific ecosystem services. In each of the case studies, the goal was to formalize a set of services and a way of eva...2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting: Press Conference Schedule
...rms like Katrina affect the incredibly rich marine ecosystem off the Mississippi delta region; and the role of barrier islands and marshes in protecting inland regions and how they were altered by Katrina. Hans C. Graber, Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing, University of Miami, Miami, Flo......oxes influence the terrestrial plant community and ecosystem dynamics through one particular route," state the researchers in their study. The experiment The Aleutian archipelago has over 450 islands in the highly productive North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. In the harsh northern climate, the islands are...University of Kentucky author captures national attention with 'Lost Mountain'
...tching Lost Mountain change from a dense, glorious ecosystem to barren land, Erik Reece's soul was stirred to respond to the loss with his first book "Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia." The book was released nation-wide Feb. 2. Reece, Un...