Field Museum gives Parker/Gentry Award to missionary turned biologist, Jos 'Pepe' Alvarez
...ical zeal to studying and preserving the flora and fauna of the Neotropics. The budding biologist soon realized that he was encountering one bird species after another that had never been seen before by ornithologists. Alvarez named the first bird he and a colleague discovered, Herpsilochmus gentryi, after......hypothesize that residents' knowledge of flora and fauna will increase more in the mesic than in the native desert cluster. Poster Session 16 Urban Ecology. Wednesday, August 9, 2006, 5:00 6:30 PM, Exhibit Hall, Ballroom Level, Cook Convention Center, Memphis, Tennessee. Presenters: David Casagrande, ...Biodiversity, Ecosystem Processes and Human Health
...f improving our understanding of soil microbes and fauna in her talk, "Soil Biodiversity and links to human health." According to Wall, disturbances to soil can impact ecosystem functioning, alter soil biodiversity, and sometimes is associated with the loss of ecosystem services, such as the control of pa...Polynesia explorers created worldwide web of scientific knowledge
...eans of discoveries about its geography, flora and fauna and people. But they were more than simply courageous collectors of artifacts and statistics, says the author of a new book. These seafaring naturalists were the producers and mediators of a new "global network of scientific knowledge," argues histor...At an underwater volcano, evidence of man's environmental impact
... even harbor eyeless shrimp, giant clams and other fauna rarely seen elsewhere. Most of these underwater geysers lie far from land thousands of feet below the ocean surface. In the research that led to the Marine Geology paper, the geologists discovered hydrothermal activity in a relatively shallow site ...'Madagascar Declaration' focuses African development policies on value of nature
...biodiversity, including lemurs and other flora and fauna found nowhere else, and the government's program to triple its protected territory to a total of 6 million hectares (23,000 square miles). "This symposium examined how we can ensure that biodiversity is maintained and becomes an engine for economic d...Tomorrow's endangered species: Act now to protect species not yet under threat
... combine relatively low human impact with a mammal fauna made up of species which are inherently sensitive to disturbance. The research takes into account the projected human population growth in these areas up to 2015. Professor Andy Purvis, also from Imperial's Division of Biology and a co-author of the...Report shows deforestation threatens Brazil's Pantanal
... wildlife populations and serve as refuges for the fauna during unfavorable seasons, sheltering species that migrate to avoid floods and climate extremes." Losing native vegetation causes soil degradation and changes the hydrological processes, which determine the dry and wet cycles and are largely respons...New protected areas keep Madagascar's conservation vision on track
... protection to conserve the island nation's unique fauna and flora, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The newly established Makira Protected Area--one of the country's five new protected areas--now forms along with existing Masoala National Park the largest contiguous tract of rain fore...Winners of 2005 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...r than Texas but home to a prodigious diversity of fauna and flora more varied than that of all of North America. Grossman introduces online visitors to a rich catalogue of critters, including the fossa, a remarkable predator that looks like a cross between a cat and a dog and loves to snack on lemurs, the...Founder of eastern Congo gorilla reserve wins prestigious award
...l provide protection and scientific monitoring for fauna and flora, conservation education for local people, and capacity building for Congolese institutions....Seafloor creatures destroyed by ice action during ice ages
...ts was not significant enough to eradicate all the fauna and that desolate patches were recolonised from surrounding areas. But our research confirms that the destruction was wholesale with very little surviving. Even today calving icebergs ploughing across the seafloor destroy everything in their path. Im...Newly discovered birdlike dinosaur is oldest raptor ever found in South America
...of the Late Cretaceous," Apestegua says. "The rich fauna of this area, known as La Buitrera, includes other carnivorous dinosaurs, such as mid-sized abelisaurs and the gigantic Giganotosaurus. However, the most common animals are bulky herbivorous sphenodontids, snakes, terrestrial crocodiles and mammals. ...Woods Hole Research Center scientist part of international initiatives to save the great apes
...on on forest structure, composition and associated fauna in a geographic information system to improve the management of these forests and their fauna; users helped designing and ultimately run the system at local and national level. Also, in collaboration with conservation organizations and African instit...Exploring the avian biodiversity of Africa with different species concepts
..., using a dataset that encompasses the entire bird fauna of sub-Saharan Africa. Identifying 1,572 biological species defined in the African 'Atlas of Speciation' and 2,098 phylogenetic species, the study found that large-scale patterns of species richness and endemisms were remarkably robust to changes in ...Two new lemur species discovered
...he diversity of Madagascar's unique and threatened fauna and flora," Kappeler says. "It is truly an honor to have such an animal named after me," Goodman says, "but this is really a joint tribute to all of the scientists and students who have taken part in our multidisciplinary surveys over the past 16 y...Ebola virus: from wildlife to dogs
...n-human primate suggests the existence within this fauna of different degrees of susceptibility to Ebola and, possibly, of strains of various levels of virulence. However, most large primates, once infected, soon die of the disease. Their bodies then become a potential source of contamination for humans, b...South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn
...amp deer and other animals. (The Pantanal's other fauna includes giant anteaters, armadillos, capybara, the Brazilian tapir and jaguar, and endangered species like the howler and capuchin monkeys, caiman, and giant black eagle.) Moreover, several large transportation infrastructure projects, including a r...Sinking coastlines may precede large subduction zone quakes
...ies that live in the forest to a slightly brackish fauna with only one species," he said. Teaming up with Lipps, Scott said, "we started looking at other sequences to make sure that wasn't just a one-off thing. It turned out we were able to see an 1,800-year event from the same area and, of course, we went...How city dwellers and living things put the green into our urban open spaces
...f urban landscapes, tracking some of the flora and fauna of cities. These plants and animals are not only valuable in conservation terms - some of Britain's rarest species, like water vole and Black Redstarts, live in cities - they are also key components of urban life. Whether rare or abundant, people p...