ESSP launches new Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study
... zones. Vulnerability of ecosystems in semi-arid zones due to changing climate and land use. Changes in resource use and emissions due to rapid urbanization in urban zones. ...Patterns on tropical marine mollusk shell mirror gene expression patterns
...lue dots on the shell of the abalone correspond to zones of high Has-sometsuke expression. By comparing the abalone DNA sequences with the genome of another related mollusc, Lottia scutum, the authors also show that genes encoding the secreted mantle proteins, which they call the 'secretome', in abalone, a...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ext, they counted the number of boutons and active zones on nerve terminals by light and electron microscop...ned release sites than anatomically defined active zones as defined by three- dimensional EM reconstructions. Using kinetic modeling, the authors estimated t...Ongoing collapse of coral reef shark populations
...egulated through an extensive series of management zones in which different areas are open to different levels of fishing. In their study, the researchers determined the status of two species of reef sharkthe whitetip and grey reef sharksby employing a unique combination of fisheries-independent abundance ...Reef sharks threatened by overfishing
... the study. They found that some types of no-take zones had worked very effectively for reef sharks, but t... in pink zones, which are strictly policed no-take zones that require special permits to enter, were as large as on oceanic reefs with virtually no shark fis...Commercial marketing in schools may discourage healthy nutrition environment for students
...004 legislation, schools are being asked to become zones of good health and nutrition, providing leadership in the effort to prevent childhood obesity," Probart says. "One way is for a community, parents and educators to change teens unhealthy eating habits is to develop, implement and enforce policies to ...How trees manage water in arid environments
...inually available from rain or snow, the tree root zones don't freeze, and there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis. The trees slow down during the pre-monsoon dry season in May and June when water is scarce, and then quickly respond to the sudden availability of water at the onset of the monsoon in Jul...New sucker-footed bat discovered in Madagascar
...-leaf Ravenala that are often pioneering plants in zones where the original forests have been cleared and burned. "For now, we do not have to worry as much about the future of Myzopoda," said Steven M. Goodman, Field Museum field biologist and lead author of the study. "We can put conservation efforts o...Gene that makes people 'early to bed and early to rise' demystified
...fly to Europe, we set our watch ahead several time zones and our watch is back on track," Ptcek added. "We don't understand the [internal] human clock well enough to advance or delay it that way. But with all that we've learned from the fruit fly, mouse and now human about the gears and how they are workin...Alpine bird numbers on the slide due to high-altitude ski runs
...ofessor Rolando: "Retaining the bird life of these zones is likely to involve developing new, environmentally-friendly ways of constructing pistes, such as only removing rocks or levelling the roughest ground surfaces in order to preserve as much soil and natural vegetation as possible."......the brain. These collect glutamate, creating small zones of high concentration from which the glutamate can then be released into the bloodstream. Basic chemistry told him that he could affect the transporter activity by tweaking glutamate levels in the blood. When blood levels are low, the greater diff...Cypress replanting unsuccessful without dual cultivation with lavender or mycorrhizal fungi
...ted strains of these fungi, sampled from the study zones in the Moroccan High Atlas, into young nursery plants. There resulted a distinct improvement in the development of these young cypress with inoculated mycorrhizal fungi, which had a higher level of minerals in their leaves (21 % more phosphorus, in p...Aerosol pollution slows down winds and reduces rainfall
...ds last longer they can end up moving to drier air zones and evaporating. Increasing California's water woes ''In California, [the wind reduction] may imply a 2 to 5 percent reduction in water supply, which translates into 0.5 to 1.25 million acre feet less a year'' Jacobson says. (An acre foot is ...Central and peripheral signals set the circadian liver clock
...of a smooth-running circadian clock. Crossing time zones decouples our biological rhythms from the natural cycle of light and dark were used to. We perceive light cues through retinal photoreceptors that relay signals to the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the brain. "Phase adjustments" in peripheral tiss...Are we killing the world's oceans?
...e destroying the world's coral reefs? Why are dead zones in the oceans on the rise? Can aquaculture be environmentally sustainable? And how are we all to blame for the collapse of coastal fisheries? Most importantly, what can governments, industry and individuals do about it? Members of the news media ...Newly discovered West Coast arrhythmias cause
...anomalous ocean events -- from repeated low oxygen zones larger than the size of Rhode Island to massive di... 2002, when scientists first documented low-oxygen zones off the US Pacific Northwest coast, they thought it was a startling, once in a lifetime, event. But ...Long-lived deep-sea fishes imperiled by technology, overfishing
...l Nio, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and hypoxia zones all can influence shallow-water fishes' breeding and mortality rates, but deep-sea environments are usually stable. The deep sea is almost completely dark, very near freezing and has very little food reasons for the fishes' slow growth and low produ...Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid
...spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell of what, precisely, that food consists." The sperm whale remains a challenging research subject for scientists today, Davis noted. "Adult sperm whales can stay underwater for more...Cold is hot in evolution -- UBC researchers debunk belief species evolve faster in tropics
...s splits into two takes place faster in temperate zones than in the tropics. Their findings are published in todays edition of the journal Science. "Its been long established that the tropics have more species, but its not clear why," says Weir. "The common assumption is that species simply evolve faste...Seeing the trees for the forest: WHRC scientists creating national biomass and carbon dataset
...d the atmosphere. Work on the remaining 61 mapping zones will be completed at a rate of roughly one zone ev..., mapping was completed for five of the 66 mapping zones within the conterminous U.S. (See graphic.) These zones include, in order of completion, 16 (central...