A new angle on flowers: Fish are players in pollination
...ce, but when they create, fill or drain a pond, or stock it, the ecological ripples lap onto shore. "The presence or absence of fish can have an influence, we showed, on terrestrial plant reproduction," Holt said. "What often determines the presence or abundance of fish -- people!" The paper is based on f...UW scientists report a new method to speed bird flu vaccine production
...tly produce the disarmed viruses that are the seed stock for making flu vaccine in large quantities, life-saving inoculations may be available more readily than before. The work is especially important as governments worldwide prepare for a predicted pandemic of avian influenza. Writing this week (Oct. 31,...Abalones along Pacific coast may owe their huge, dinner-plate size to sea otters
... as to the cause of the demise of a lot of abalone stock is human overfishing and probably destruction by humans of habitat," Lindberg said. "Getting an evolutionary grasp on a system gives us power in understanding its ecology and physiology, even if you are talking about management of wildlife stocks." C...Satellites support Kyoto Protocol through forest mapping service
...ministry representative called the baseline carbon stock information provided a "goldmine". ESA's Kyoto-Inv... for offsetting emissions against increases in the stock of carbon stored in vegetation, in particular forests. What the Protocol requires for such offsetti...Russian River coho recovery project seeing first hopeful signs of success
..."We're trying to figure out whether it's better to stock fish in the spring or in the fall," said Mariska Obedzinski, UCCE's coho monitoring coordinator for the project. "In all likelihood mortality will be higher for the fish released in the spring, but in the long run the additional time in the stream m...Ownership of Southern forestland dramatically changing
...MOs). Primary reasons for divestiture include poor stock performance, the need to increase shareholder returns, debt reduction, increased tax efficiencies though Real Estate Investment Trusts and sub-chapter S Corporations, and the development of tax strategies that minimize capital gains. "It is our expe...A year on from the Asian tsunami, satellites are aiding regional rebuilding
...ntre, community centre, place of workshop and fish stock stores being constructed. The objective of ADU in both locations is to return economic opportunity to local people, repair schools for childrens' education, and re-house disaster victims, carried out with sensitivity to local conditions and a strat...Biggest physics meeting of the year
...ers change over time with the rise and fall of the stock market. Juergen Mimkes of Germany's Paderborn University argues that the daily struggle for survival of all economic systems follows a Carnot cycle driven by energy. He argues that motors and markets are based on the same laws of calculus (macro-eco...Killing wolves may not protect livestock efficiently
... programs to compensate ranchers and shepherds for stock lost to wolves can be used to offset costs to producers. Such programs convey funds from numerous citizens concerned with nature conservation to the ranchers affected by livestock losses. "Killing that many wolves would be difficult," Musiani said. "...From basic science to the bedside: APS conference takes stock of lung disease
...dical doctors who deal with lung disease will take stock of the progress toward answering that question at The American Physiological Society conference "Physiological Genomics and Proteomics of Lung Disease," Nov. 2-5 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The conference comes amid giant leaps in knowledge of genes...Studies show that rockfish thrive with offshore platforms as their home base
...thern Baja California. Overfishing has reduced the stock to less than one-tenth of its former population, according to Milton S. Love, a marine biologist with UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI). However, the platforms are helping to restore this species. "This is the first time that we have solid ev...TWAS, Illycaff announce Trieste Science Prize winners
...global climate change and even fluctuations in the stock market. Palis has also been a driving force behind efforts to strengthen the study of mathematics in Latin America. He served as the director of the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Rio de Janeiro for more than a decade, transforming the ...Ecological effects of Gulf Coast hurricanes
...ew Orleans surged into Lake Pontchartrain. Taking stock nearly a year later, experts from the Gulf Coast region will address the storms' ecological consequences and will offer insights on how ecological knowledge can help mitigate damage from future hurricanes. "Not only is the City of New Orleans built...Salmon farms kill wild fish, study shows
...tality from farm-origin sea lice could push a fish stock into the red zone," said biologist Dr. John Volpe, a study co-author at the University of Victoria. Although the study was conducted in British Columbia, the results apply globally. "This study really raises the question of whether we can have nati...Alaska study offers strategies to mitigate climate warming
...ads, homes and other infrastructure. "We took stock of these changes and from that we assessed what society is going to need to respond to these changes," said Gary Kofinas, co-author and coordinator of the Resilience and Adaptation Program at UAF. The policy recommendations, Kofinas said, address ".....Special chip provides better picture of salmon health
...A chip will help farmers assess the state of their stock more accurately and also enable conservationists to sample wild populations to ascertain their health and wellbeing. The development of the chip is the culmination of a four-year study known as Salmon TRAITS (Transcription Analysis of Important Tra...High tech detectives screen thousands of genes, proteins to solve puzzle of lung disease
...e already blistering pace is picking up. To take stock of this quickly changing field, scientists and doctors will gather at The American Physiological Society meeting, "Physiological genomics and proteomics of lung disease," to be held Nov. 2-5 in Fort Lauderdale. "Up until a few years ago, we investi...Long-term ocean data confirm fishing puts species in 'double jeopardy'
...Fishing can potentially not only lead to declining stock levels, but cause populations to fluctuate more th...n the population to decline, potentially leaving a stock of near-juveniles that are less able to cope with environmental events such as El Nio. "This sugge...Open Science Conference to focus on regional sustainability challenges to the Earth system
...llel Session 23, Global climate governance: Taking stock and moving beyond the Kyoto Protocol. Parallel Session 30, Improving the interface between biodiversity science and policy. Governance Experts: Leslie King, Anne Larigauderie, Michel Loreau, Dave Raffaelli, Meryl Williams, Oran Young......ories to offset emissions against increases in the stock of carbon stored in vegetation, especially forests. What the Protocol requires for such offsetting to take place is annual reporting of land use changes especially afforestation, reforestation and deforestation (ARD) - associated with shifts in t...