News tagged with species barrier

Great Barrier Reef hopes on ice in Aussie Outback

The arid plains fringing Australia's desert centre are more suited to camels than blooms of coral but here, hundreds of miles from the coast, a piece of the Great Barrier Reef has been put on ice.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sharks in Australia's Great Barrier Reef in decline

Sharks inhabiting Australia's Great Barrier Reef are in decline due to over fishing, researchers warned, after developing what they said was a new way to measure falling numbers.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bird disease spreads from UK to Europe

(PhysOrg.com) -- The deadly bird disease trichomonosis, which has been killing off large numbers of greenfinches and chaffinches in Britain since 2005, has spread to Europe according to a new study published ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

The geometry of sex: How body size could lead to new species

Different species of scincid lizards, commonly known as skinks, rarely interbreed, but it's not for lack of trying.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Gatekeeper for tomato pollination identified

Tomato plants use similar biochemical mechanisms to reject pollen from their own flowers as well as pollen from foreign but related plant species, thus guarding against both inbreeding and cross-species hybridization, report ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fence goes up to keep Asian carp out of Chicago canal

The latest weapon in the fight against Asian carp doesn't look much like a weapon at all: It's a 13-mile concrete and steel mesh fence that splits the narrow divide between the Des Plaines River and the Chicago Sanitary and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Australian, Japanese waters harbouring deep secrets: census

Australia and Japan boast some of the planet's most diverse oceans but thousands of organisms remain unknown to science and global warming is a huge marine peril, a major new census says.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Australia questions crew of ship that ran aground

(AP) -- The crew of a coal-carrying ship that ran aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef and is leaking oil will be questioned Tuesday about why their vessel was in a restricted area, an official said.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New species discovered on the Great Barrier Reef

Between the grains of sand on the sea floor there is an unknown and unexplored world. Pierre De Wit at Gothenburg University knows this well, and has found new animal species on the Great Barrier Reef, in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Animals linked to human Chlamydia pneumoniae

Animals have been found to have infected humans sometime in the past with the common respiratory disease Chlamydia pneumoniae, according to Queensland University of Technology infectious disease expert Profes ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The genetic secrets to jumping the species barrier

Scientists have pinpointed specific mutations that allow a common plant virus to infect new species, according to research published in the March issue of the Journal of General Virology. Understanding the genetics of the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Great Barrier Reef under serious threat: report

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in serious jeopardy as global warming and chemical runoff threaten to kill marine species and cause serious outbreaks of disease, a report warned Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 1

A global model for the origin of species independent of geographical isolation

(PhysOrg.com) -- The tremendous diversity of life continues to puzzle scientists, long after the 200 years since Charles Darwin's birth. However, in recent years, consistent patterns of biodiversity have been identified ...

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 12

A big lesson from the reef

The lesson from Australia's Great Barrier Reef is that we have to protect its biodiversity - because biodiversity in turn protects us.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Reef boom beats doom

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 4


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