Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
...nd and in the Gulf of Mexico, revealing remarkable migrations and life-cycle secrets of the declining species. ...-Giant (TAG) program used electronic tags to track migrations of giant bluefins found off the north of Ireland fish targeted by Irish sport fishers and Japanese ...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...erhaul policy approaches to the issue or face mass migrations of people driven from degraded homelands within a single generation, warns a new analysis from the United Nations University. In the analysis for presentation June 28 at UN Headquarters, New York, UNU experts say the loss of soil productivity and t...Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
...n such numbers, not even when flying over the mass migrations of the Serengeti, said Fay. This could represent t...he time was proclaimed one of the largest wildlife migrations on the planet. We estimated more than 800,000 kob in Southern Sudan, said Fay. If you were a gold mi...Mice, men make livers differently
...ntify the small number of genes where binding site migrations do have an evolutionary impact, because they are being drowned out by all the insignificant changes, Fraenkel said. In future studies, the research team plans to investigate why some genes binding sites are conserved over time while others shift. "...Journal details how global warming will affect the world's fisheries
...ental variability causing variations in growth and migrations of a fish stock shared by two countries. They cons... a trend with fluctuations. The warming effects of migrations of a fish stock, which originally is controlled by one country, gradually spills over into the other...From the deep -- Researchers find new species of sea anemone
...inted out that there are now far fewer major whale migrations along the California coast. While the flesh of a dead whale decomposes within weeks, the bones can last anywhere from 60 to 100 years. "As that happens, the bacteria that break down the bones release sulfur," Daly said. "A whole community of aqua...Granthams to fund Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
...ks resulting from climate change - leading to mass migrations in low-lying areas, e.g. Bangladesh; and having severe effects on the global insurance industry through loss and damage claims from storms and floods The donation will provide funding for new research and 10 additional posts initially, including a...How do marine turtles return to the same beach to lay their eggs?
...better understanding of how they manage these long migrations between egg-laying and feeding areas. ...GenePOPS -- Sequencing Human History: The Genetics and Commerce of Personal Ancestry
...eographical origins of our species and trace human migrations around the globe. How is the study of genetic v...will explain how his team is mapping ancient human migrations based on the DNA code of humans living today. Scott Woodward of the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Fou...DNA analysis reveals rapid population shift among Pleistocene cave bears
... and potentially illuminate the influence of human migrations in animal population changes. The new work, reported by a collaborative group of researchers including Michael Hofreiter of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, appears in the February 20th issue of the journal ...New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
... People who put tiny bands on birds to help track migrations contributed samples for the study. Banders are extremely good at identifying species "but even they can't always identify a bird in the hand," says Dr. Hebert. "In such cases, they appreciate having a barcode record to identify with certainty the bir...Sequencing human history -- The genetics and commerce of personal ancestry
...eographical origins of our species and trace human migrations around the globe. How is the study of genetic v...will explain how his team is mapping ancient human migrations based on the DNA code of humans living today. Gina Paige of African Ancestry, Inc. will relate exper...Newly discovered West Coast arrhythmias cause
...m-up. Many marine animals time their breeding and migrations with this influx of nutrients and growth of prey populations. But in recent years, changes in wind patterns and the position of the jet stream have changed the timing and strength of upwelling, disrupting these long-standing patterns. "These are no...History-hunting geneticists can still follow familiar trail
...about this classic genetic system to study ancient migrations of people and to estimate the populations of people or animals as they existed tens of thousands of years ago. But University of Florida researchers writing this month in an online edition of Science validate the approach, which involves tracking s...Study questions the 'biodiversity hotspot' approach to wildlife conservation
...pressures," they wrote. "The likelihood of species migrations in response to global climate change adds further complexity to the development of conservation strategies, and further limits the present usefulness of the classic hotspot approach." To date, ecologists have identified 34 biodiversity hotspots that...NASA snow data helps maintain nation's largest, oldest bison herd
...del through time. "Bison have one of the longest migrations of any large mammal in the country. The fact that they are moving to low-elevation winter ranges outside the park is actually a sign of how successful our restoration efforts have been," said Rick Wallen, leader of the Park's Bison Ecology and Manage...Out of Africa: Scientists uncover history of honey bee
... in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Science. "The migrations resulted in two European populations that are geographically close, but genetically quite different," Whitfield said. "In fact, the two European populations are more related to honey bees in Africa than to each other." To explore the movements of bee...Arctic nations' wealth key to management of climate change
... connected to the rest of the world through annual migrations of whales, fish, and birds. Polar regions provide the cooling mechanism for the planet and are the major source of nonmarine water in ice caps and glaciers. Because of these and other human services provided by the Arctic ecosystem, the global commun...Agriculture and tropical conservation: rethinking old ideas
...s that are left, and will it support the necessary migrations from patch to patch as local extinctions occur, which they inevitably do?" If forest patches are separated by barren pastures or fields of single crops, such as soybeans, then monkeys, birds, and other forest animals probably won't travel through t......only other bird species known that could rival the migrations of the sooty shearwater would be the arctic tern, which breeds in the Arctic and migrates to Antarctica. But we don't know if they do that in a single season, because nobody's ever tracked them," said Scott Shaffer, a research biologist at the Univer...