Yellowstone ecosystem may lose key migrant
...," He added, "An entire population from a national park could be eliminated, leaving a conspicuous gap in the ecology and function of native predator-prey interactions."...USGS Science at Ecological Society of America
...make use of the waters of the Everglades to assist park managers in ecosystem management, park operations and management, and park visitor use. The authors will identify special areas of concern ...Ecosystem services and invasive species
...Rhodes College, Memphis) studied four plots in the park to determine a value for the services this urban f...e community. According to Cappellato, the Overton park stores a volume of carbon worth $40,000 $200,000 and adds more storage space through growth, worth ...Widespread elephant slaughter discovered in Chad
...resh, maybe just a few weeks old, not far from the park headquarters, and the animal's face had been chopp... the wet season, when the elephants wander outside park limits to forage and are vulnerable to attack. Elephants in the park have enjoyed strong protection...Republic of Congo announces two massive protected areas
... and river valleys. The south and west of the new park supports an intact block of Chaillu forest and the Ougue River basin along which a series of important natural forest clearings are used by forest elephants and other large mammals. Until recently the region contained lions unusual to the Congo Ba...USGS at The Wildlife Society: From sea-ice change to contaminants to predators and prey
..., the number of cruise ships that have entered the park has increased by 25 percent and may increase up to another 30%. Although the park has initiated restrictions on cruise ships to minimize disturbance of seals at important breeding lo...'Failed' experiment yields a biocontrol agent that doesn't trigger antibiotic resistance
...and Burgess are not on the payroll of the research park company themselves, but they are proud that ConjuGon employs other people and has created 12 high-paying and highly skilled jobs for the Madison area. Because of that, says Filutowicz, ConjuGon is helping to ensure the future of microbial sciences a...New bird discovered on unexplored Columbian mountain
... are beginning to describe new taxa and a national park was established in the region. It is surprising th...s, Serrana de los Yarigues was declared a national park last year by the Colombian government and a large forest nature reserve was recently established in ...2006 Canon National Parks Science Scholars announced
... fields of conservation, environmental science and park management, Canon U.S.A., Inc., in cooperation wit...mericas, as well as conducting science critical to park conservation." "This valued partnership, consisting of students, universities, Canon U.S.A., Inc. t...Asia's odd-ball antelope gets collared
...s, while improving the conditions and resources of park rangers who are spending their valuable time to protect this unique species," said Lhagva Lkhagvasuren of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences "Otherwise, we will have only an empty steppe and deserts with no any saiga. Future generations will never fo...Cougar predation key to ecosystem health
... the father of wildlife ecology. "When park development caused cougar to begin leaving Zion Canyon in the 1930s, it allowed much higher levels of deer browsing," said Robert Beschta, an OSU professor emeritus of forest hydrology. "That set in motion a long cascade of changes that resulted in t...Researchers determine why wolves not dispersing as fast as expected in Yellowstone
...l 31, with about 150 of them still residing in the park boundaries. However, wolves have been known to disperse at a rate of 100 km a year, but the Yellowstone wolves have only spread at one-tenth that rate. The slow dispersal rate had stumped researchers across North America until a team of mathematica...NASA snow data helps maintain nation's largest, oldest bison herd
...,900 animals thanks to creative initiatives at the park to restore and maintain the population. Scientis... NASA satellite data and computer modeling to help park officials better understand the relationship between snow accumulation and the way it melts during t...DNA repair teams' motto: 'To protect and serve'
...ll up at your front door, unload and get busy--not park the truck down the street and eat donuts. It's the same for a cell--just before it divides, it recruits protein complexes that repair breakage that may have occurred along the linear DNA chains making up your 46 chromosomes. Without repair, damage...Report outlines funding to conserve half of Massachusetts's land
...Levitt says. "As home to the nation's first public park and first private land trust, Massachusetts has a long history in conservation innovation. That tradition continues today with the application of new conservation finance tools that together have the potential to achieve landscape-scale conservation ...Ground spider diversity studied in research project
...populations, for changes in habitat, she said. The park has areas for hiking, bird watching and horseback ...ses, an endangered orchid. More information on the park can be found at http://www.cstx.gov/docs/111946232004lick_creek_brochure-04.pdf ....Human preference for other species could determine whether they survive
...pic National Park in Washington state have damaged park ecosystems, but because of their popularity it has been difficult for park managers to remove them. Likewise, while groups of conservationists gather on weekends to pull invas...E. coli bacteria migrating between humans, chimps in Ugandan park
...ed in chimpanzee-focused research and tourism in a park in western Uganda are exchanging gastrointestinal ... were more like those of the humans working in the park than like humans living in the village. "This expands our notion of the situations in which peopl...Population pressure shapes urban parks
...forests shows no sign that there is a common urban park plant complex, but does show that population level...DuBois Campus. "This is evidence that common urban park flora does not exist and demonstrates that a diverse flora can be maintained in urban parks." The ...NC research campus and UNC universities host major symposium on nutritional biotechnology
...arch. The NCRC is the states second major research park development -- a 350-acre biotech hub currently under construction in Kannapolis, North Carolina, a former center for the textile industry, just north of Charlotte. A cooperative venture between six North Carolina research universities and biotech i...