News tagged with ecological processes
Faced with global warming, can wilderness remain natural?
Apr 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For those who think of nature as a wild, unspoiled Eden that preserves the natural flora and fauna free from human interference, global warming has a nasty surprise in store, according to ...
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Evolution, ecosystems may buffer some species against climate change
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(Physorg.com) -- Although ecologists expect many species will be harmed by climate change, some species could be buffered by their potential to evolve or by changes in their surrounding ecosystems.
Large-Scale Experiments Needed to Predict Global Change
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Ecosystems are constantly exchanging materials through the movement of air in the atmosphere and water in lakes and rivers. The effects of humans, however, are another major source of connections among ecosystems.
Finding the ASX200 for marine ecosystems
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are building the environmental equivalent of the ASX200 as a means of monitoring the health of Australian marine ecosystems.
Hareless: Yellowstone's rabbits have vanished, study says
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Feb 14, 2008 |
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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 latest ...
When lava flows and glaciers recede, predicting how species take over
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May 23, 2007 |
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When fire, clearcutting, lava or receding glaciers create empty habitat, species arrive to form a new ecological community. Adverse conditions -- such as isolation of the new community or an unfavorable climate ...
Research explains how ecosystems survive in a constantly changing world
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Jul 20, 2006 |
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Ecological networks may struggle to survive the systematic changes our planet is undergoing, according to researchers from Queen Mary, University of London.
Oak Ridge pegged for national ecological network
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Dozens of instruments to be deployed on the Oak Ridge Reservation and other sites around the nation will provide valuable information related to climate change, biodiversity and invasive species, infectious diseases and ...
Invasive Species on the March: Variable Rates of Spread Set Current Limits to Predictability
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether for introduced muskrats in Europe or oak trees in the United Kingdom, zebra mussels in United States lakes or agricultural pests around the world, scientists have tried to find new ...
Jurassic Park from a Swiss lake?
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Ecological changes caused by humans affect natural biodiversity. For example, the eutrophication of Greifensee and Lake Constance in the 1970s and 1980s led to genetic changes in a species of water flea which ...
New Window Opens on the Secret Life of Microbes
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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Nowhere is the principle of "strength in numbers" more apparent than in the collective power of microbes: despite their simplicity, these one-cell organisms -- which number about 5 million trillion trillion ...
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