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Networks of small habitat patches can preserve urban biodiversity
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Nov 13, 2008 |
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Sets of small and seemingly insignificant habitat patches that are within reach for mobile species may under certain circumstances, as a group, provide an acceptable alternative to larger and contiguous habitats. This finding ...
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Parasites a key to the decline of red colobus monkeys in forest fragments
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Oct 24, 2007 |
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Forest fragmentation threatens biodiversity, often causing declines or local extinctions in a majority of species while enhancing the prospects of a few. A new study from the University of Illinois shows that ...
Researcher finds forest birds 'commuting' to attract mates
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An ecologist at the University of Rhode Island studying habitat use by a forest-dwelling game bird found that the birds unexpectedly exhibited what he described as "the bar scene phenomenon" ...
Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool.
No place like home: Africa's big cats show postcode preference
Oct 09, 2009 |
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The secret lives of some of Africa's iconic carnivores, including big cats, are revealed in a new study in Animal Conservation, today.
Government to remap manatee habitat
Sep 30, 2009 |
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It has been more than 30 years since federal wildlife managers formally mapped the places where endangered manatee live in Florida. On Tuesday, they acknowledged it's probably time for an update.
Recently discovered species gain protection
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Jan 18, 2007 |
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The chestnut-capped piha is an unassuming robin-sized bird restricted to a few tiny remnant forest patches in the Antioquia Department of Colombia, in the Central Cordillera of the Andes. It is so restricted in its distribution ...
Recently discovered species gain protection
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Jan 18, 2007 |
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The chestnut-capped piha is an unassuming robin-sized bird restricted to a few tiny remnant forest patches in the Antioquia Department of Colombia, in the Central Cordillera of the Andes. It is so restricted in its distribution ...
Happy flies look for a place like home
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A happy youth can influence where a fruit fly chooses to live as an adult, according to new research in The American Naturalist. The study, led by Judy Stamps from the University of Califo ...
8-day undersea mission begins experiment to improve coral reef restoration
Jun 14, 2008 |
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Scientists have begun an eight-day mission, in which they are living and working at 60 feet below the sea surface, to determine why some species of coral colonies survive transplanting after a disturbance, ...
Mini-Comets within a comet lit up 17P/Holmes during megaoutburst
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Astronomers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Hawaii have discovered multiple fragments ejected during the largest cometary outburst ever witnessed. Images and animations ...
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