Rangeland repair enters phase 2
... maintenance program that would allow Fort Hood to sustain their training areas and reduce erosion," he said....Beaver dams create healthy downstream ecosystems
...aller floods; they also elevate the water table to sustain plant and animal life during the dry summer season. "This study broadens the view of the importance of beaver in the valley bottoms beyond the upstream ponds," Westbrook said. "We found that upstream ponds were not the main hydrologic effect of the d...UB scientist publishes first human microbiome analysis
...e novel chemical compounds that help establish and sustain their mutually beneficial relationships with us," said Gordon. "Prospecting for these 'natural products' and characterizing the pathways through which they operate should provide new insights into the function of many of our human genes, new ways fo...FSU scientist's biomolecular research published in Science, Nature
... the foundation for understanding how they work to sustain the life of cells.This is analogous, although at quite different scales, to dissecting the human heart in order to understand how it works and its role in blood circulation. It is still quite challenging to obtain structures of novel biomolecules, an...A new view on Lyme disease: Rodents hold the key to annual risk
...n the previous year and abundance of acorns--which sustain the rodents--two years out. Their findings upset the long-held view that deer and climate are the best indicators of disease risk. I. scapularis larvae hatch in midsummer and acquire infection after feeding on an infected mouse or other small animal...Diverse sea 'bugs' revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton
...he tiny shrimp-like animals, called copepods, that sustain commercial fish stocks throughout the world ocean; nearly half (65 of 140 species) of all Atlantic species of ostracods another shrimp relative plus six species thought to be new to science; half (24 of 48 species) of all known shelled pteropod...Tiny polyps gorge themselves to survive coral bleaching
...ora can switch how it gets its food so that it can sustain itself in a bleached state much longer than can corals like Porites," she said. "While bleached Porites is limited by how much energy reserves it has, bleached Montipora is not. That's good news for Montipora and corals like it as the frequency, dur......tem. "It is truly remarkable that mouse testes can sustain these bovine cells in culture," says Elaine Dzierzak, who coordinates a EuroSTELLS project at Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam. Testicular cultures could also prove an ideal system to test compounds that might affect sperm-production su...Washington University's Sarah Elgin is re-funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute
...nding to help eight of the 2002 group find ways to sustain the parts of their programs that worked best and to disseminate them to the broader community of science educators. Elgin was renewed for $700,000 over four years beginning in 2006. The renewal is focused at the college/university level, and is cent...With $10M in grants, UMaine begins forest biorefining research
...ey aspect of this research is understanding how to sustain forest lands. "Healthier forests will have higher value; higher-valued forests will receive closer, better ecological attention," says Stephen Shaler, scientific director of the EPSCoR grant and a professor of Wood Sciences Technology at UMaine. By ...Tiny water purification packet helps save lives worldwide
...ons of drinking water, or enough drinking water to sustain a typical household for about 2-3 days, Allgood says. The packet is added to a large container of impure water, stirred, filtered through a cloth to remove impurities and then allowed to sit for 20 minutes. The net result is clear, safe drinking wate...Ocean 'dead zones' trigger sex changes in fish, posing extinction threat
...wn as "dead zones," that lack sufficient oxygen to sustain most sea life. Fish and other creatures trapped in these zones often die. Those that escape may be more vulnerable to predators and other stresses. This new study, Wu says, suggests these zones potentially pose a third threat to these species an ina...UCR researchers design chip that can improve citrus varieties
... that will benefit all citrus researchers and help sustain the citrus industry locally and worldwide," said Timothy Close , a professor of genetics at UCR and a co-leader of the project. "We owe a special thanks to colleagues in the citrus community: Abhaya Dandekar at UC Davis, Bob Shatters, Jose Chaparro......oblem for larvae that need more food than usual to sustain their increased metabolism. These challenges are large enough that even with warm water boosting larval development, conditions are not optimum for successful larval settlement." The blue-headed wrasse is common in the Caribbean and plays an importa...Vital organs in the Earth system: What is the prognosis?
...otentially undermine the capacity of ecosystems to sustain food production, maintain freshwater and forest resources, regulate climate and air quality, and ameliorate infectious diseases. Foley reviews recent trends in global land use, and the implications for the sustainable use of the biosphere and the fut...Employ more science and technology to reduce world hunger, expert says
...ple crops, making their small farms more viable. sustain biodiversity through better conservation of the genetic resources of crops, cattle and aquatic resources. promote sustainable and integrated land, water and forest management practices through a holistic, systems approach. produce more and better...Ironing out new details of tuberculosis infection
...erium tuberculosis to acquire the iron it needs to sustain growth and promote infection. "Targeting genes within this cluster represents a good strategy for preventing tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections," said Rajesh S. Gokhale, an HHMI international research scholar at the National Institute ...Study of tropical forests worldwide reveals that nature encourages diversity
...world" of insects, bacteria and fungi that help to sustain diversity largely disappears. But the authors poin...e forests?" he asks. "How much damage can a forest sustain before its diversity begins to decline? Are other complex ecosystems, like coral reefs, also selecte...Powerful technique for multiplying adult stem cells may aid therapies
...hey thrived. But how did these new cells manage to sustain the stem cells so dramatically? Zhang used a microarray platform to search for genes that were active in these newly discovered cells, but not active in similar neighboring cells. Some such genes, he reasoned, might encode secreted proteins that sust......omet Center for Conservation Sciences (Manomet) to sustain the development and implementation of conservation programs that address the decline of shorebird populations throughout the Western Hemisphere. The conservation activities will be conducted by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN)...