All Articles Tagged As: ecology
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
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 | Rather than suppressing local communities in developing nations, nature reserves attract human settlement ...> Full Article |
 | A major initiative to create alternative nesting sites for the largest colony of Caspian terns in the world - and to help protect juvenile salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River - is finding early success. ...> Full Article |
 | New research by Canadian scientists, brings some good news for those interested in the conservation of a number of highly-endangered species of Canadian fish. ...> Full Article |
 | Remote-controlled sensor networks are helping scientists track rare bird populations ...> Full Article |
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
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A baby boom of sorts has wrapped up in Seward, Alaska.
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Experts outline primary risks of climate change to natives of the Arctic
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Professor to create software to analyze data from variety of common ecological tools.
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 | Deep-sea sharks have been tagged and tracked and their habitats precisely mapped in world-first research to test the conservation value of areas closed to commercial fishing. ...> Full Article |
 | An international team of researchers has developed a remarkable new road map for finding and protecting thousands of rare species that live only in Madagascar, considered one of the most significant biodiversity hot spots in the world ...> Full Article |
 | Bats and birds work night and day to control insect pests that might otherwise munch the crop ...> Full Article |
 | Intense deforestation in Mexico could ruin one of North America's most celebrated natural wonders - the mysterious 3,000-mile migration of the monarch butterfly. According to a University of Kansas researcher, the astonishing migration may collapse rapidly without urgent action to end devastation of the butterfly's vital sources of food and shelter. ...> Full Article |
 | New research finds fresh evidence that urbanization in the United States threatens the populations of some species of migratory birds ...> Full Article |
 | Invasive species can also have a surprisingly "creative" side ...> Full Article |
 | Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions, according to a Yale study published Feb. 15 in Science that offers a revolutionary shift in thinking on the subject. ...> Full Article |
 | As western states debate removing the gray wolf from protection under the Endangered Species Act, a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society cautions that doing so may result in an unintended decline in another species: the pronghorn, a uniquely North American animal that resembles an African antelope. ...> Full Article |
 | Hunted to near extinction, sea otters are making a steady comeback along the Pacific coast. Their reintroduction, however, is expected to reduce the numbers of several key species of commercially valuable shellfish dramatically, such as sea urchins and geoducks. ...> Full Article |
 | How young migrating birds choose the nesting location of their first breeding season has been something of a mystery in the bird world. But a new study of the American redstart by the University of Maryland and Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center of the National Zoo suggests that the environmental conditions the birds face in their first year may help determine where they breed for the rest of their lives, a factor that could significantly affect the population as climate change makes their winter habitats hotter and drier. ...> Full Article |
 | A new study by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society found that jack rabbits living in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have apparently hopped into oblivion. The study, which appears in the journal Oryx, also speculates that the disappearance of jack rabbits may be having region-wide impacts on a variety of other prey species and their predators. ...> Full Article |
 | One of the UK's rarest mammals - Bechstein's bat - will be surveyed and monitored under a new three-year project using technology developed by the University of Sussex. ...> Full Article |
 | The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Panthera Foundation announced plans to establish a 5,000 mile-long "genetic corridor" from Bhutan to Burma that would allow tiger populations to roam freely across landscapes. The corridor, first announced at the United Nations on January 30th, would span eight countries and represent the largest block of tiger habitat left on earth. ...> Full Article |
The assignment of duties in a single cell, ocean life or even a small business does not have to be defined by a division of labor where every individual has a specific role, according to biologists at Ohio State University.
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 | The opening of gorillas and chimpanzees reserves for tourism is often portrayed as the key to conserving these endangered great apes. There are also however serious concerns that tourism may expose wild apes to infection by virulent human diseases. ...> Full Article |
 | A study by the University of Exeter has highlighted the problems of reintroducing animals to the wild for conservation projects. Published online in the journal Biological Conservation, the research highlights the low survival rates of captive carnivores that are released into their natural habitats. On average only one in three captive-born carnivores survives in the wild, with most deaths related to human activities. ...> Full Article |
 | study shows significant evolutionary changes follow predators' indirect effects on ecosystems ...> Full Article |
 | One of the most significant questions facing marine ecologists today, is just how much of an impact global variations in the environment are having on the dispersal of larval and juvenile marine species from open oceans to coral reefs. Previously, tracking how fish larvae migrate was done through direct observation by divers on older larvae found near the reefs, after they'd spent weeks to months in the plankton. This method did not permit divers to follow small larvae, diving larvae or larvae as they returned to the reefs at night. How tiny coral reef fish larvae locate the reef habitat across vast expanses of water has remained an enduring mystery. ...> Full Article |
 | Imagine 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 |
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