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Yosemite resurvey shows small mammals moving up in world 10/12/2008

Opening a can of worms: serendipitous discovery reveals earthworms more diverse than first thought 10/11/2008

New evidence: why flowers self-fertilize? 10/10/2008

Bird diversity lessens human exposure to West Nile Virus 10/9/2008

Lichens function as indicators of nitrogen pollution in forests 10/8/2008

Deepest living fishes caught on camera for the first time 10/8/2008

Shift in bald eagle diet linked to sea otter decline 10/7/2008

Wielding microbe against microbe, beetle defends its food source 10/6/2008

Moths with a nose for learning 10/5/2008

Reproducing early and often is the key to rapid evolution in plants 10/4/2008

Atlantic tuna return thousands of miles to birthplace to spawn 10/3/2008

Study Reveals an Oily Diet for Subsurface Life 10/1/2008

Common insecticide can decimate tadpole populations 9/30/2008

Researchers describe for first time how some bacteria kill males: They first invade the mother 9/29/2008

Captive breeding introduced infectious disease to Mallorcan amphibians 9/28/2008

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New evidence: why flowers self-fertilize? (10/10/2008)

New evidence: why flowers self-fertilize?Studies on some Himalayan ginger flowers have contributed novel empirical evidence to Darwin's self-pollination theory ...> Full Article


Reproducing early and often is the key to rapid evolution in plants (10/4/2008)

Plants with rapid reproductive cycles evolve faster ...> Full Article



Walnut Trees Emit Aspirin-Like Chemical to Deal With Stress (9/22/2008)

Walnut Trees Emit Aspirin-Like Chemical to Deal With StressDiscovery may help scientists better understand air quality, farm crops ...> Full Article



New ant species discovered in the Amazon likely represents oldest living lineage of ants (9/16/2008)

New ant species discovered in the Amazon likely represents oldest living lineage of antsA new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest is likely a descendant of the very first ants to evolve. ...> Full Article



How plants fine tune their natural chemical defenses (9/14/2008)

How plants fine tune their natural chemical defensesComparing anti-fungals produced by tobacco and henbane, researchers discovered that only a few mutations in a key enzyme are enough to shift the whole output to an entirely new product mixture. ...> Full Article



Genes and nutrition influence caste in unusual species of harvester ant (8/21/2008)

Genes and nutrition influence caste in unusual species of harvester antResearchers trying to determine whether nature or nurture determines an ant's status in the colony have found a surprising answer ...> Full Article



Bugs put the heat in chili peppers (8/20/2008)

Bugs put the heat in chili peppersThe spiciness is a defense mechanism that some peppers develop to suppress a microbial fungus that invades through punctures made in the outer skin by insects ...> Full Article



Extinction most likely for rare trees in the Amazon rainforest (8/17/2008)

Extinction most likely for rare trees in the Amazon rainforestCommon tree species in the Amazon will survive even grim scenarios of deforestation and road-building, but rare trees could suffer extinction rates of up to 50 percent ...> Full Article



Scientists find elephant memories may hold key to survival (8/12/2008)

Scientists find elephant memories may hold key to survivalRecent study suggests experience of old matriarchs may help herds survive in age of climate change ...> Full Article



Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020? (8/3/2008)

Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020?African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989 ...> Full Article



Milkweed's evolutionary approach to caterpillars: Counter appetite with fast repair (7/26/2008)

Milkweed's evolutionary approach to caterpillars: Counter appetite with fast repairAs the predators evolve new strategies for attack, plants counter with their own unique defenses. ...> Full Article



Scientists Find New Clues to Explain Amazonian Biodiversity (7/24/2008)

Scientists Find New Clues to Explain Amazonian BiodiversityIce age climate change and ancient flooding - but not barriers created by rivers - may have promoted the evolution of new insect species in the Amazon region of South America, a new study suggests. ...> Full Article


Biofuels and biodiversity don't mix, ecologists warn (7/9/2008)

Rising demand for palm oil will decimate biodiversity unless producers and politicians can work together to preserve as much remaining natural forest as possible, ecologists have warned ...> Full Article



Life on the edge: To disperse, or become extinct? (6/28/2008)

Life on the edge: To disperse, or become extinct?Plants existing at the edges of their natural habitats may enhance survival of the species during global warming ...> Full Article


Ecologists tease out private lives of plants and their pollinators (5/7/2008)

Research explains the recent dramatic decline in certain bumblebee species found in the shrinking areas of species-rich chalk grasslands and hay meadows across Northern Europe ...> Full Article



Western Forests Highly Susceptible to Extensive Outbreaks of Bark Beetle (4/24/2008)

Western Forests Highly Susceptible to Extensive Outbreaks of Bark BeetleLodgepole pine forests have characteristics that could lead to large bark beetle outbreaks in the western U.S. ...> Full Article



Insects use plant like a telephone (4/24/2008)

Insects use plant like a telephoneCommunication between subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects ...> Full Article



'Extinct' elephant may have been found again - on a different island (4/20/2008)

'Extinct' elephant may have been found again - on a different islandThe Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race - accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago ...> Full Article



World's oldest living tree discovered in Sweden (4/17/2008)

World's oldest living tree discovered in SwedenThe world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time. ...> Full Article


Playing dead is no game for ant survival (4/9/2008)

Playing dead is no game for ant survivalNew study shows the age of victims determines how fire ants respond to aggressors ...> Full Article


Insects take a bigger bite out of plants in a higher CO2 atmophere (3/28/2008)

Insects take a bigger bite out of plants in a higher CO2 atmophereAtmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising at an alarming rate, and new research indicates that soybean plant defenses go down as CO2 goes up. Elevated CO2 impairs a key component of the plant's defenses against leaf-eating insects ...> Full Article


Royal corruption is rife in the ant world (3/18/2008)

Royal corruption is rife in the ant worldFar from being a model of social co-operation, the ant world is riddled with cheating and corruption - and it goes all the way to the top ...> Full Article


Small plants may hold big answers (3/2/2008)

Small plants may hold big answersSome of the smallest plants on the planet may play a vital role in some of the largest questions facing mankind today, according to marine scientists at the University of Portsmouth and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS). ...> Full Article


Why Juniper Trees Can Live On Less Water (3/1/2008)

Why Juniper Trees Can Live On Less WaterScientists find physical and genetic reasons for various juniper species' drought-resistance ...> Full Article


Arctic seed vault opens doors for 100 million seeds (2/28/2008)

Arctic seed vault opens doors for 100 million seedsThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries. With the deposits ranging from unique varieties of major African and Asian food staples such as maize, rice, wheat, cowpea, and sorghum to European and South American varieties of eggplant, lettuce, barley, and potato, the first deposits into the seed vault represent the most comprehensive and diverse collection of food crop seeds being held anywhere in the world. ...> Full Article


Nitrogen pollution boosts plant growth in tropics by 20 percent (2/10/2008)

Impact of nitrogen on natural ecosystems could influence climate change ...> Full Article


Ants and avalanches: Insects on coffee plants follow widespread natural tendency (1/28/2008)

Ants and avalanches: Insects on coffee plants follow widespread natural tendencyEver since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality-a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature-scientists have been applying its concepts to everything from economics to avalanches. ...> Full Article


Cells with something to say (1/24/2008)

Cells with something to sayScientists have made the first step in defining the structure of communication channels between plant cells ...> Full Article


Trees, Ants and Elephants: Balance Gone Bad (1/22/2008)

Trees, Ants and Elephants: Balance Gone Badresearchers in Africa have a riveting tale of natural balance gone bad, with an unhappy moral for other ecosystems: This could happen to you. ...> Full Article


Plant lipid's response to frigid temperature revealed (1/21/2008)

Plant lipid's response to frigid temperature revealedLow-temperature stress is a chief environment factor that hinders plant growth, development as well as its geographic distribution and yield. Cell membrane is the major part of a plant where the harm takes place and the molecular changes in the membrane and membrane lipid are one of the initial signals in plant adaptation to and survival after freezing. ...> Full Article


New Genus of Self-destructive Palm found in Madagascar (1/18/2008)

New Genus of Self-destructive Palm found in MadagascarA gigantic palm that flowers itself to death has been discovered in Madagascar. This previously unknown genus is entirely new to science and has been named Tahina spectabilis in the latest issue of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, which is Malagasy for "blessed" or "to be protected", and is also one of the given names of Anne-Tahina Metz, the daughter of the discoverer of the palm. ...> Full Article


Ant parasite turns host into ripe red berry, biologists discover (1/17/2008)

Ant parasite turns host into ripe red berry, biologists discoverA newly discovered parasite so dramatically transforms its host, an ant, that the ant comes to resemble a juicy red berry, ripe for picking, according to a report accepted for publication in The American Naturalist. This is the first example of fruit mimicry caused by a parasite, the co-authors say. ...> Full Article


Africa's biggest mammals key to ant-plant teamwork (1/11/2008)

Africa's biggest mammals key to ant-plant teamworkThroughout the tropics, ants and Acacia trees live together in intricate interdependent relationships that have long fascinated scientists. ...> Full Article


Lambs learn to eat Dalmatian toadflax by watching Mom at pasture potluck (11/26/2007)

Lambs learn to eat Dalmatian toadflax by watching Mom at pasture potluckImagine a lamb at its first pasture potluck, and you'll see how Montana lambs are learning to eat a noxious weed called Dalmatian toadflax. ...> Full Article


Social standing influences how far elephants travel for food, study finds (10/29/2007)

Social standing influences how far elephants travel for food, study findsWhen resources are scarce, who you know and where you're positioned on the social totem pole affects how far you'll go to search for food. At least that's the case with African elephants, according to a study led by ecologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who collaborated with researchers at Save the Elephants, a non-profit research organization based in Kenya, and at the University of Oxford in England. ...> Full Article


Elephants can 'smell danger' (10/18/2007)

Elephants can 'smell danger'Elephants can tell whether a human is a friend or foe by their scent and colour of clothing. ...> Full Article


Bee buzz could scare away elephants (10/9/2007)

Bee buzz could scare away elephantsStrategically placed beehives might offer a natural elephant deterrent in areas where humans are encroaching on elephant ranges, according to Oxford University scientists. ...> Full Article


New Animal And Plant Species Found In Vietnam (9/27/2007)

New Animal And Plant Species Found In VietnamWorld Wildlife Fund scientists have just announced the discovery of 11 new animal and plant species in a remote area in central Vietnam. They say this underscores the importance of conservation efforts in the ancient tropical forests of the region. ...> Full Article


Researchers Discover Forests of Endangered Tropical Kelp (9/26/2007)

Researchers Discover Forests of Endangered Tropical KelpImportant Implications for Biodiversity, Climate Change ...> Full Article

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