Shopping list gets longer not less choosy in some of world's largest fisheries
... the food web. The most spectacular example is the ecosystem in the North Atlantic where fishery collapses are common....Jane Lubchenco receives the 2005 AAAS Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award
...marine conservation biology, biological diversity, ecosystem services, ecological causes and consequences of global change, and sustainable ecological systems. Her scientific contributions in ecology are widely recognized, and her publications have been named Science Citation Classic Papers. She is an elected ...Marine ecologists to help rebuild decreasing fish stocks
...oved large numbers of fish and altered the way the ecosystem works. Everybody would like to see the rebuilding ...factor operates in isolation and components of the ecosystem respond differently to each individual factor. We aim to identify these factors, both human and non...The rising tide of ocean plagues: How humans are changing the dynamics of disease
...hat invisibly control the balance of species in an ecosystem are disappearing; and changes in sea surface tempe...y, diseases also play an important role in healthy ecosystem functioning. These changes tend to slip under the radar screen until they show up in ecological cas...Environmental metagenomics diagnosing extreme environments, tapping opportunities for clean energy
... technologies, biosphere monitoring platforms, and ecosystem forecast models for predicting the impacts of climate change. For a full session description, see: http://php.aaas.org/meetings/MPE_01.php?detail=974 "Environmental systems are extremely complex, harboring numerous diverse species coexisting in a s...Crossing the Valley of Death: Moving science into practice and policy
...will discuss science's not-so-new understanding of ecosystem change, concepts called threshold or state-and-tra...ire, grazing or climate variability might push the ecosystem off-course for a time, but once the system was left alone, it would right itself and move back towar...Local involvement in national lands management: Can it work nationwide?
...plemented, federal monitors continue to assess the ecosystem and public reaction. Management strategies can then be changed as necessary." Using the Valles Caldera National Preserve as a model, the symposium participants will discuss the strategies in place there, as well as tools that can be used to measure t...Besides food, farming can provide wildlife habitat and reduce global warming
...the other participants will discuss the concept of ecosystem services the services provided to humans by the b...arming can be supported. The principles behind the ecosystem services idea could allow farmers to be supported if they successfully improve the environment and s...Vital organs in the Earth system: What is the prognosis?
...h as improved agricultural practices, payments for ecosystem services, and greener cities. Foley also presents possible means for connecting these scientific results to global decision-makers, via an internet-based "Earth Collaboratory", an interface between global environmental scientists and local experts dr...Scientists look to the Bahamas as a model for coral reef conservation
...mplexity Project--an interdisciplinary approach to ecosystem management that project leaders say could serve as...ientific and socioeconomic factors contributing to ecosystem changes," said project principal investigator Dan Brumbaugh, senior conservation scientist at the Am......r these fish -- some of the largest species in the ecosystem then we can build a better marine reserve. And, that's exactly what we hope to learn from this research about these grouper we want to protect. If we can get a sense of just how much space they need to have protected, so that they can swim, feed, ...MBL scientists to present research at 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting
...he quality of the export flux will also affect the ecosystem processes that regulate biogeochemical cycling wit...ition can lead to important observations about the ecosystem as a whole. Furthermore, understanding whether free-living pathogens participate in relationships wi...Human impacts on natural systems is topic of National Science Foundation forum
... human impacts on land cover change in arid lands; ecosystem responses to hydrologic change in the Everglades; and combining archaeology and ecology in desert grasslands. The LTER network comprises 26 field sites located primarily in the United States, but with a geographic span from the Arctic and Antarctic t...Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned
...the disturbance created by spawning salmon and the ecosystem at large. In this most recent paper, Moore also ou... kind of animal make them impossible to ignore as ecosystem engineers. "One specific application to stream restoration in the Pacific Northwest, for example, d...The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest
...Minas Gerais, where his teaching interests include ecosystem dynamics and modeling and digital cartography, and director of the Universidade's Center for Remote Sensing. He is also a Visiting Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center. He earned his doctorate in Spatial Analysis from the Universidade de So Pa...Wetland banking yields low return on urban interests
...s and losers in terms of locally delivered wetland ecosystem services," Ruhl said. Ruhl and James Salzman, a pr...t underscores the need to analyze the value of the ecosystem service losses due to wetlands mitigation banking, according to Ruhl. "We ought to make resource use...Biodiversity conservation may help reduce the impacts of natural disasters UNU
...cesses and poverty reduction strategies to promote ecosystem services that may help reduce the extreme effects ...kri called on governments to recognize the role of ecosystem services in planning and policy decisions related to such core concerns as economics, health, and ev...Tiny polyps gorge themselves to survive coral bleaching
...0 years," she said. "We have a delicately balanced ecosystem that is already highly stressed. It is very much interconnected and so far, we have royally messed it up."...Plants' role in global warming re-examined in ORNL Science paper
...uence of temperature acclimation at both the local ecosystem and global scales. ORNL's study looked at the period from 1930 to 2100, with and without acclimation of leaf respiration. "All other things being equal, as they are in our simulations, more carbon stored in plants and soils corresponds to less carbon...Diverse sea 'bugs' revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton
...nitiative that sheds life on some important global ecosystem processes, including the ocean's function as Earth...uced and invasive species, and rapid assessment of ecosystem health," she says. MOCNESS, the Zooplankton's Monster The zooplankton specimens were captured ...