Value of services performed by insects tops $57 billion in US
...esearch. Insects are an integral part of a complex web of interactions that helps put food on our tables and remove our wastes. Humans - and probably most life on earth - would perish without insects, Vaughan said. Losey and Vaughan's study focused on the economic value of four particular services -wildl...Prestigious European prize for NIOZ researcher
... such as bacteria, archaea and viruses in the food web of the open oceans. In doing this he introduces new ecological concepts, research methods and approaches to the field. The report also praises Herndl's leadership qualities. For example, Herndl recently developed a new measurement and sampling devic...UCSD project takes fish collection into the digital age
...search and education for generations to come." The web development for the Digital Fish Library project is being conducted by Cameron Perry in Frank's lab. Perry also performs the MR imaging, coordinating the specimen selection and transfer with H. J. Walker of the Marine Vertebrate Collection. The data ...Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway
...her information is available on request (and via a web site www.ukbiobank.ac.uk), with a freephone number that volunteers and GPs can ring to raise any queries with a study team member. No one is pressured into taking part, and participants can withdraw at any time if they change their minds. The first a...Florida Tech to host 25th Anniversary Indian River Lagoon Symposium
...ance of individual components of the lagoon's food web ? Symposium 2006 participants will review these questions and ask more. Many of the same participants from 25 years ago plan to participate. Making presentations will be representatives of lagoon resource management agencies, lagoon scientists and re...MBL scientists to present research at 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting
...*scope ( http://microscope.mbl.edu ) is a communal web environment that has been designed to improve conn...f collaborators to create co-operative distributed web resources. The use of names as the core of the organizational structure allows micro*scope to act as......table in time and space for evolution of this food web to have taken place. Global warming is acting to disrupt predictability, a situation that could cause the rapid demise of marine mammals and birds upon which subsistence human populations depend. A biological oceanographer, Smith has spent her care...Marine mammals are on the frontline of failing ocean health
... pollutants are transferred through the ocean food web to consumers, both humans and animals," says Peggy Krahn of the NOAA. "Until we understand this, we can't start to say how to mitigate pollutants in the ocean." Krahn and her colleagues trace the flow of contaminants by studying the build-up of poll...Arctic marine mammals: The new canaries?
... called biomagnification - from one part of a food web to another in these predators and their prey. "Understanding contaminants in marine mammals is critically important to addressing oceans and human health in Alaska," said O'Hara, who will be presenting a seminar titled, "Biomagnification and pathways...Next good dinosaur news likely to come from small packages
...eorites to reconstructing who eats who in the food web from the tropics to the arctic. The trail is laid by stubbornly durable molecules. She uses mass spectrometry, an analytical technique that determines what molecules are present. Molecules may be tiny, but they can be tough, Ostrom said. The plant th...Shopping list gets longer not less choosy in some of world's largest fisheries
...reoccupied with the model of fishing down the food web that assumes the largest, most valuable fish have ...anagement and conservation." Fishing down the food web emerged as a concern in the late 1990s when Daniel Pauly of the University of British Columbia publi......plants and animals at the bottom of an island food web by eating organisms that transport nutrients between ecosystems. "An introduced predator alters Aleutian island plant communities by thwarting nutrient subsidies," is published in the February issue of Ecological Monographs. As any biologist can att...2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting: Press Conference Schedule
...porting high biodiversity in the deep sea; 2) food web interactions among the organisms of the deep; and ...ent information, see the official State Department web site: http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1276.html . Please apply for your visa early. N...NYAS China Conference reveals latest advances in biomedical sciences
...nchronized with speakers slides; links to relevant web sites, books, journal articles; and cross-referenced articles from the Academy on related subjects. Exciting New Research from East and West Panel discussions, plenary lectures, and shorter technical talks by leading researchers from China, the Uni...2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting: Press conferences planned
...ent information, see the official State Department web site: http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1276.html Please apply for your visa early. News Media registrants receive a badge that provides access to any of the scientific sessions of the meeting, as well as to the Press Room. No one will b...Long-term memory controlled by molecular pathway at synapses
...s. The findings will be presented this week on the web site of the journal Cell. Even for a fruit fly, learning and memory are important adaptive tools that facilitate survival in the environment. A fly can learn to avoid what may do it harm, such as a flyswatter, or in the laboratory, an electric shock ...3,317 and counting (the number of marine species in the Gulf of Maine)
...by providing a more complete picture of the marine web of life, it is another step toward managing the Gu...an eye, they are collectively major players in the web of ocean life." The Census of Marine Life is a global network of researchers in more than 70 nations...2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting: Abstracts now online
...Ocean Sciences Meeting have been posted on the AGU web site. A. Searching for Abstracts of Interest to Yo...ent information, see the official State Department web site: http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1276.html . Please apply for your visa early. N...A year on from the Asian tsunami, satellites are aiding regional rebuilding
... All products were made freely available over the web sites of the Respond partners, which were distributed widely and reached hundreds and some time even over thousand downloads a day. In January 2005 alone UNOSAT recorded more than 350,000 downloads of maps produced by DLR, JRC, Infoterra UK and UNOSA...