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Researchers change focus on threatened species

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created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland-led research is suggesting new ways to protect threatened species. Professor Hugh Possingham, director of UQ's Ecology Centre, and colleagues from the French National ...





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A female lynx with her cub at the captive breeding center of the Donana National Park, southern Spain

One in six Mediterranean mammals face extinction

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

One in six Mediterranean mammals is threatened with extinction at the regional level, mainly due to the destruction of their habitat from urbanization, agriculture and climate change, nature body IUCN said ...


Underestimation of frog numbers causes concern

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created Oct 31, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Frogs are vanishing from all the world's ecosystems with unprecedented speed. It is thought that more than 100 species have died out since 1980 alone.


Shape-shifting coral evade identification

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created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The evolutionary tendency of corals to alter their skeletal structure makes it difficult to assign them to different species. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have used genetic marker ...


'Champions' to unleash virtual heroes and foes

Technology / Software

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Think you can do better than Stan Lee? Launching next month, the new massively multiplayer online role-playing game "Champions Online" will let gamers create their own virtual superheroes. Sorry, no Spider-Men or ...


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Red List overlooks island species

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The criteria of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List are an essential tool for evaluating the conservation status of species around the planet, and according to these criteria ...


New species discovered on whale skeletons

New species discovered on whale skeletons

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

When a whale dies, it sinks to the seafloor and becomes food for an entire ecosystem. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have discovered previously unknown species that feed only on dead ...


Mangrove-dependent animals globally threatened

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than 40 percent of a sample of amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds that are restricted to mangrove ecosystems are globally threatened with extinction, according to an assessment published in the July/August issue ...


Over 1,000 fish species 'threatened with extinction'

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.


Ecologists sound out new solution for monitoring cryptic species

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ecologists have at last worked out a way of using recordings of birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations. This is the first time sound recordings from a microphone array have been translated into accurate ...


Feds to decide on listing ice seals as threatened

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created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A federal agency must decide within three weeks whether spotted seals, which depend on sea ice off Alaska's coast, should be listed as a threatened or endangered species.



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