Human impacts on natural systems is topic of National Science Foundation forum
...located primarily in the United States, but with a geographic span from the Arctic and Antarctic to the tropics. The sites represent Earth's major ecosystems, and include deserts, grasslands, forests, tundra, urban areas, agricultural systems, freshwater lakes, coastal estuaries and salt marshes, coral reefs an...Study looks at ways to mitigate air pollution from freight transportation along I-95
... Winebrake and Corbett hope to layer the tool with geographic information system technology to create a web-enabled interactive map for identifying transportation routes with the lowest environmental impacts....The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest
...watersheds, eco-regions, vegetation types, and the geographic ranges of 382 mammal species, two extreme scenarios were developed, encompassing the likely range of future trajectories of deforestation through 2050. The first of the two futures discussed is a business-as-usual scenario in which the forces of dest...MIT: Oceans are a major gene swap-meet for plankton
...found and under what conditions they thrive. Their geographic patterns suggest causal relations with environmental variables such as temperature, predators, light and nutrients. Remarkably, despite centuries of oceanic research, tiny Prochlorococcus wasn't even known to exist two decades ago. It was discovered ...Scientists discover interplay between genes and viruses in tiny ocean plankton
...with the conditions under which they thrive. These geographic patterns relate to environmental variables such as temperature, predators, light and nutrients. Chisholm is trying to learn how the microbes function as a system in which they have co-evolved with each other, and with the chemistry and physics of the...Purdue project could help pets serve as disease watchdogs
...e can use analytical techniques to target specific geographic areas where vaccines need to be developed," Glickm...ability of Purdue researchers to track diseases by geographic area and to detect statistical clusters of events in companion animals that could signal the introdu...Racial disparities in cancer not as simple as black and white
...n and white women drew on data from many different geographic areas." When Dookeran and his team narrowed the st...y of health insurance; socioeconomic standing; and geographic location. "African-American women are more commonly underserved and have low socioeconomic status (...Low vitamin D levels associated with increased total cancer incidence
...and supplementation, skin pigmentation, adiposity, geographic residence, and leisure-time physical activity. The authors observed that an increase in estimated vitamin D levels equivalent to 1500 IU of vitamin D daily, was associated with a 17% reduction in total cancer incidence, 29% reduction in total cancer ...Whale bubble nets, saxophone sounds, ultrasonic laser
...ntial of rapidly assessing the size, location, and geographic extent of large underwater earthquakes, and hence their potential to create tsunamis (2aAO2). Peter Gerstoft of Scripps ( gerstoft@ucsd.edu , www.mpl.ucsd.edu/people/gerstoft ) will report that seismic stations in Southern California were able to de...Scientists develop first comprehensive theory explaining Madagascar's rich biodiversity
...w so many animals came to be limited to such small geographic areas across the island, which lies off the easter...etreat" tended to be left behind in small, limited geographic areas where river sources commenced at relatively low elevations. Since they were isolated, those po...Smithsonian to coordinate planning for Panama's Coiba National Park/World Heritage Site
... in diverse areas such as protected area planning, geographic information systems, terrestrial, marine and fisheries biology, law, architecture and civil engineering. Law 44, which marked the creation of the Park in 2004, stipulates that the team will work closely with ANAM, which manages park operations, and ...Harvard Medical signs agreement with Merck to develop potential therapy for macular degeneration
...ease. In some cases of macular degeneration called geographic atrophy, holes appear in the macula that are surrounded by clumps of lipofuscin. "One of the worrisome issues with the lipofuscins is that they are insoluble and form aggregates akin to plaques, suggested Dr. Rando. In addition, he noted the lipofusc...Satellite images obtained by AAAS program provide strong evidence of Zimbabwe repression
...ect, at a discount. ESRI Inc., the world leader in geographic information system software and technology, has provided sophisticated map-making software. Leica Geosystems and ITT Visual Information Solutions provided the image analysis software for initial processing of the satellite data. The AAAS geospatial t...Rhesus monkeys in Nepal may provide new alternative for HIV/AIDS research
...general given the past history of the area and the geographic barrier of the Himalayan Mountains that separates Nepal and India from China. To facilitate the use of rhesus macaques in research while ensuring the conservation of Nepal's naturally occurring rhesus populations, the Nepali government enacted a pol...Electric fish in Africa could be example of evolution in action
...to imagine, involves animals that live in the same geographic location but, for some reason, begin to mate selectively and form distinct groups and, ultimately, separate species. This so-called sympatric speciation is more controversial because there have been few accepted examples of it to date. "Many scienti...Same species responds differently to same warming, depending on location
...e air warming of 7.5 F by 2100 across the mussels' geographic range resulted in body temperature increases ranging from about 4 F to 6.5 F. "We have only contributed 'step one,' the tie between climate and body temperature," says co-author Brian Helmuth, associate professor of biological sciences at the Univers...Evidence human activities have shaped large-scale ecological patterns
...l approaches to examine bird assemblages and their geographic ranges in North America to test for patterns of ch... bird species within these assemblages experienced geographic range expansion and a majority of bird assemblages experienced an increased abundance of common spec...Mosquito immune system examined
...posure, which can differ greatly between different geographic sites. Potentially, we could boost the mosquito's capacity to fight the malaria parasite by exposing it to certain microbes or compounds that resemble the microbe molecules responsible for immune activation." In this study, the investigators also ana...Biologists find regions of rice domestication
...nature of cultivated rice is only found in certain geographic regions. And that's how you make the determinatio... of caloric content for the world. By finding the geographic origins of rice, researchers can consider ways to improve the crop's nutritional value and disease r...Global patterns of geographic range sizes: A bird's eye view
...shows that the majority of bird species have small geographic ranges. More than a quarter of species have ranges...pheres, rather than vice versa. Similarly, overall geographic range size did not decrease toward the tropics; although the largest ranges were at high northern la...