Proteaceae spread by continental drift and transoceanic dispersal
...the highly diverse south-western Cape biodiversity hotspot are much younger, and have Australian relatives says Nigel Barker of Rhodes University, South Africa. This new finding is important, as it challenges the dogma that gondwanalands biota merely moved in situ with the continents as they broke up. We ...New mathematical model to add rigor to studies of disease genetics and evolution
...illion DNA bases long. Rates of recombination at a hotspot may be as much as hundreds to thousands of times t...e surrounding gene sequence. Little is known about hotspot origins or how they work. Scientists have identified a small number of human recombination hotspot...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...Me- Phe 4 -glycol 5 -enkephalin (DAMGO) at either hotspot increased Fos expression locally and at the distan... of "liking" responses, but stimulation of the NAc hotspot was sufficient to trigger "wanting." Getting ADAM10 to the Membrane Elena Marcello, Fabrizio G...Study questions the 'biodiversity hotspot' approach to wildlife conservation
...ay that it's time for ecologists to reconsider the hotspot approach to conservation. "Hotspots, which have p...los and Ehrlich, however, a critical assumption of hotspot ecology that has not been widely tested is the extent to which the three factors overlap on a global...Gene offers new lead in cleft lip and palate research
...m into or near a shared regulatory pathway and now hotspot for clefting. "The big challenge for research on cleft lip and palate is to move from studying individual genes to defining individual protein networks," said Dr. Richard Maas, a scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University Medi...China's environmental challenges
... University) and fellow researchers identified ten hotspot regions in China's major mountain ranges they say should be priorities for the country's conservation plans. One of the review articles in the issue examines the phenomenon of so-called city clusters in China, which, in contrast to the United Sta...Symposium 'Environmental Change in Siberia -- Insights From Earth Observation and Modeling'
...r the past eight years, said: "Siberia is a global hotspot in the climate system. Because the Siberian ecosystems are largely temperature controlled the region is strongly affected by global warming. Large amounts of greenhouse gases are currently locked in the permafrost and in organic soils, and if release......excluded from the tropical rainforest biodiversity hotspot of Tanzania, but these exciting finds change the whole way we think about forest diversity of eastern Africa" said Jon Lovett, an expert in African biodiversity at the University of York. However, the forests of Kilimanjaro are changing. Fires and l...Deer-free areas may be haven for ticks, disease
... deer excluded area in the Italian Alps in a known hotspot for tick-borne encephalitis -- a disease passed to humans through the bite of an infected tick. "From previous studies we found that tick densities decreased in (geographically) large areas and increased dramatically in smaller areas," suggesting t...CI partners with responsibletravel.com to promote small scale sustainable tourism venues
...lent in size to Russia and Australia combined. New hotspot analysis shows that an estimated 50 percent of all vascular plants and 42 percent of terrestrial vertebrates exist only in these 34 hotspots. In addition, the CI and RT partnership will collaborate on the First Choice Responsible Tourism Awards 20...Liquid Jungle Lab environs -- home to five new species
...ntext. Remnant islands generated by the Galapagos hotspot that later migrated East and the subsequent volcanic and emergent terrains that formed the Isthmus of Panama form the steep and deeply faulted lands of southern Veraguas. Average rainfall is thought to be ~3500mm per year. Roughly 2,000 inhabitants...How satellite tracking revealed the migratory mysteries of endangered Atlantic loggerhead turtles
...orld's largest nesting sites for loggerheads and a hotspot for industrial fishing. What they found could turn...his fishing effort was in the Atlantic and a major hotspot for fishing is found off West Africa, the region where the Cape Verdean turtles reside. In recent ye...Scientist warns of threat to last stronghold of endangered turtle
...% of this fishing effort in the Atlantic. A major hotspot is found off West Africa, the focus of this study. With fishing yields decreasing in European seas the EU has struck up a number of agreements with African nations to fish their waters. Amazingly, most EU fishing concessions don't even incorporate c...Study in Royal Society journal on first observation of giant squid in the wild
...fore stresses the critical importance of so-called hotspot stopover sites along the flyway of avian long-dist...between digestive physiology and the vital role of hotspot stopover sites in the lives of migrant shorebirds makes this work newsworthy. Contact: Dr JA van Gil...Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region
...lent in size to Russia and Australia combined. New hotspot analysis shows that an estimated 50 percent of all vascular plants and 42 percent of terrestrial vertebrates exist only in these 34 hotspots. Results from the expedition will be shared with numerous entities, such as the Chinese government, environme...New global bird map suggests 'hotspots' not a simple key to conservation
...risingly, this is not the case -different types of hotspot are in fact located in different areas. "Different types of diversity don't map in the same way," Prof Owenssays. "There is no single explanation for the patterns. Differentmechanisms are therefore responsible for different aspects ofbiodiversity, a...The World Congress of Nephrology 26-30 June 2005, Singapore
...nd as a treatment target was signposted as a clear hotspot for the future. There were a number of inspiring and thought provoking presentations which provided an insight into the ISN's outreach and prevention programs, along with its commitment to advancing nephrology around the world. These presentations,...Conservation International and SC Johnson partner again to offset carbon impacts
...lent in size to Russia and Australia combined. New hotspot analysis shows that an estimated 50 percent of all vascular plants and 42 percent of terrestrial vertebrates exist only in these 34 hotspots. By working in an innovative partnership with the Government of Madagascar and the Wildlife Conservation Soci...'Free-for-all' illegal logging of mahogany in Peruvian parks, says Duke-based monitoring group
...e international market, the Alto Purs has become a hotspot for illicit logging." Fagan said the 2004 expedition aimed to investigate reports that loggers were "laundering" mahogany illegally cut within the protected zone. Informants alerted ParksWatch that this wood was being transported from the Alto Purs t...Mitsubishi offsets carbon footprint through investment in Madagascar's rain forest
...re found nowhere else on earth. Each biodiversity hotspot has already lost over 70 percent of original habitat, and the remainder faces imminent threat of further destruction. Madagascar, for example, has lost as much as 90 percent of its original forest cover. "Through the Makira Forest Project, we workin...