News tagged with lake ecosystem
Big Advantage for the Small -- Climate change influences the size of marine organisms
Jul 23, 2009 |
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The ice is melting, the sea level is rising and species are conquering new habitats. The warming of the world climate has many consequences. In the current issue of the renowned journal 'Proceedings of the ...
Study assesses impact of fish stocking on aquatic insects
Mar 26, 2009 |
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The impact fish stocking has on aquatic insects in mountain lakes can be rapidly reversed by removing non-native trout, according to a study completed by U.S. Forest Service and University of California, Davis, scientists.
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Cheap love costs the Earth
Feb 13, 2009 |
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Ecology and conservation biologist at the University of Leicester, Dr David Harper, who has conducted research for over 25 years at Lake Naivasha in Kenya, today warned that cut-price Valentine roses exported for sale in ...
Digging deeper below Antarctica's Lake Vida
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Antarctica's Lake Vida, a geologic curiosity that is essentially an ice bottle of brine, is home to some of the oldest and coldest living organisms on Earth. Perpetually covered by more than 60 feet of ice, ...
Study links ecosystem changes in temperate lakes to climate warming
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Unparalleled warming over the last few decades has triggered widespread ecosystem changes in many temperate North American and Western European lakes, say researchers at Queen's University and the Ontario Ministry of the ...
Evaluating ecosystem services
Aug 05, 2008 |
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Environmental conservation efforts have traditionally focused on protecting individual species or natural resources. Scientists are discovering, however, that preserving the benefits that whole ecosystems provide to people ...
Ecologists report quantifiable measures of nature's services to humans
Feb 02, 2009 |
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The idea of ecosystem services is a promising conservation concept but has been rarely put into practice. In a special issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, researchers use novel tools to report some o ...
Study: Can nature's leading indicators presage environmental disaster?
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Economists use leading indicators — the drivers of economic performance - to take the temperature of the economy and predict the future.
Scientist uses sedimentary record to uncover planet's past
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Feb 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The wind barreled across the ice at Daily Lake as Montana State University paleoecologist Cathy Whitlock and three students used all their strength to pull a metal pipe out of the mucky lake ...
Climate change threatens Lake Baikal's unique biota
May 01, 2009 |
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Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to an analysis by a joint US-Russian team in the May ...
New Measurements of Toxics and Organics in Tahoe Smoke
Jul 10, 2008 |
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To better understand the effects of catastrophic wildfires on the Lake Tahoe ecosystem, UC Davis researchers will install a fourth state-of-the-art air sampler at Lake Tahoe on Monday.
Lowly Icelandic midges reveal ecosystem's tipping points
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Mar 05, 2008 |
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The midges that periodically swarm by the billions from Iceland's Lake Myvatn are a force of nature. At their peak, it is difficult to breathe without inhaling the bugs, which hatch and emerge from the lake in blizzard-like ...
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