New research presents reserve selection using nonlinear species distribution models
...parcels for conservation, either via protection or habitat management measures. In general, it would be most ...rom the spatial structure of a reserve network. If habitat is lost outside designated protection areas, e.g. agricultural fields, new housing areas and car par...Genome of a social amoeba sequenced for the first time
...ds Dictyostelium discoideum is subjected to in its habitat and in the development of a multicellular organism. A remarkably high proportion are responsible for the production and exchange of substances which could be used for nutrition, defence mechanisms or communication between Dictyostelium cells. The DFG...Ecosystems, economic choices and human well-being
...cosystem services frequently exceed the benefit of habitat conversion. Such findings, it says, get obscured b...s. Conservation in the form of protected areas and habitat restoration enhances development efforts and will be strengthened by inclusion in the planning proce...Habitat use by North Pacific right whales, Eubalaena japonica, in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska
...rvival of this remnant population of right whales, habitat use was investigated by scientists at the NOAA Nat...EBS middle shelf was and continues to be important habitat for this species. Although there has been a conspicuous absence of right whale sightings from the o...K-State professor studies how landscape dynamics affect extinction risk for migratory songbirds
... State University biology professor on how chronic habitat loss increases the extinction risk of migratory so...ith's research objective was to assess how chronic habitat loss can impact extinction risk for migratory songbirds. With said habitat loss and fragmentation ar...Small species back-up giant marsupial climate change extinction claim
...a mixture of both large and small species that are habitat generalists or are species found in open areas, su... animals such as long-nosed bandicoots that aren't habitat specific remain." Analysis of sediment and ecological data shows that it became increasingly arid d...Elusive salamanders have role in developing new sampling models
...Giffen, a wildlife biologist, and Bill Hargrove, a habitat modeler. Fort Stewart herpetologist Dirk Stevenson...port reproduction of the flatwoods salamander. The habitat modeling takes into account numerous environmental and other variables and will be used to identify ...Traditional models underestimate extinction rates
... threat to most species is loss of habitat. And as habitat loss and degradation proceed nearly unabated, the need to accurately predict the population dynamics and extinction risk of potentially endangered species has never been greater. In a new study, John Drake tests models traditionally used to estimate ...Study in Royal Society journal on heritability of female orgasm
...nd genetic populations that are defined by natural habitat boundaries, indicating at least five populations a...he genetic differentiation of populations in local habitat patches. Contacts: Dr AR Hoelzel, Biological Sciences, Durham University, South Road, DURHAM, DH1 3L...Highlights in the June 2005 issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
...ke terrestrial organisms, whose greatest threat is habitat degradation, marine organisms' main threat is overexploitation. Infections: The Nutrition Link Val Smith (University of Kansas, Lawrence), Tyrees Jones II (Georgia State University) and Marilyn Smith (University of Kansas, Kansas City) discuss the ...Conservation International and SC Johnson partner again to offset carbon impacts
...ened mammals, birds, and amphibians survive within habitat covering just 2.3 percent of the Earth's surface (...bined areas of the five largest U.S. states). This habitat originally covered 15.7 percent of the Earth's surface, an area equivalent in size to Russia and Aus...Mayan stingless bee keeping: Going, going, gone?
...e Yucatan a result of ongoing cultural change and habitat loss. "In our initial surveys of bee keepers working with native bees in the eighties, we estimated that they maintained more than a thousand active hives. In 1990, we only found around 400 hives, and in 2004, only 90. At this rate, we would expect...Logging changed ecological balance for monkeys, damaged health
...llinois to better understand the interplay between habitat disturbance and primate conservations and health in Uganda. He is collaborating with veterinary pathobiologist Tony Goldberg and other researchers at Illinois, where state-of-the-art facilities and faculty expertise are uniquely suited for studying d...Rare chalk grassland takes 50 years to recover from military use
...nimproved chalk grassland in north-west Europe - a habitat of particular conservation interest. The findings ...es. "Chalk grasslands remain a rare and fragmented habitat type in north-west Europe, and outside Salisbury Plain, the rolling chalk downlands of southern Engl...The Academy of Natural Sciences & team discover new catfish species
...tunia enigmatica. The names derive from the fish's habitat in the Lacantn river of southern Chiapas state in ...critical that we learn the details of its diet and habitat requirements and reproductive biology," Lundberg said. "This will require a focused study of the sp...Study in Royal Society journal on holly as an indicator of climate change
...model ecosystem, where biological processes create habitat heterogeneity. According to our new model based on...more likely through a genetic or through a learned habitat preference? By Professor JAJ Metz and Mr JB Beltman (rspb.2005.3104) Individuals prefer environment...Landscape corridors promote animal, plant dispersal
...rips of land connecting separated areas of similar habitat are effective in promoting animal and plant seed movement to help sustain diversity and dispersal of native animals and plants. In addition, says Dr. Nick Haddad, associate professor of zoology at NC State and a co-author of the paper describing the...Ferry-linked water monitoring system becomes new model for United States
...arge-scale assessments of water quality and marine habitat using a modified U2 reconnaissance plane," Paerl said. "Flights the aircraft made at an altitude of 12 miles enabled scientists to create maps of the amounts of nutrients and sediments in freshwater runoff entering the sound, and the algae responses,...Discovering an ecosystem beneath a collapsed Antarctic ice shelf
...e environments. Researchers discovered the sunless habitat after a recent underwater video study examining a ...ve played a critical role in allowing the chemical habitat to thrive on the seafloor when it otherwise might not have established itself. Domack noted, however...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... today largely due to destruction of their natural habitat in the early 20th century as well as pesticide exposure, poachers and illness. As a result of their dwindling population researchers have minimal knowledge of diseases that naturally occur among these birds. In 1996 an outbreak of disease at a capt...