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High-tech models help guide restoration efforts to save threatened plants

A team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) and two universities will begin research using sophisticated topographic models to identify areas within dry forests that have the ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Salt water alone unlikely to halt Burmese python invasion

Invasive Burmese python hatchlings from the Florida Everglades can withstand exposure to salt water long enough to potentially expand their range through ocean and estuarine environments, according to research in the latest ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Colourful boundary trespassers: burrowing parrots crossed the Andes 120,000 years ago

The Andes of southern South America form a hostile mountain range with glaciers, salty deserts and meagre high elevation steppes. Birds from more moderate climate zones cross this mountain range only rarely. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New models may reduce seabird bycatch

Tens of thousands of albatrosses and other far-ranging seabirds are killed each year after they become caught in longline fishing gear. Innovative new models developed by a Duke University-led research team may help reduce ...

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created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'

A California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Yellow-cedar are dying in Alaska: Scientists now know why

Yellow-cedar, a culturally and economically valuable tree in southeastern Alaska and adjacent parts of British Columbia, has been dying off across large expanses of these areas for the past 100 years. But ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Satellite study reveals critical habitat and corridors for world's rarest gorilla

Conservationists working in Central Africa to save the world's rarest gorilla have good news: the Cross River gorilla has more suitable habitat than previously thought, including vital corridors that, if protected, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Perth slowly devouring its black Cockatoo species

WA Museum’s ornithology curator says black cockatoos, which once flocked to the Swan Coastal Plain in tens of thousands, could be extinct within 50 years.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Climate change models may underestimate extinctions

Predictions of the loss of animal and plant diversity around the world are common under models of future climate change. But a new study shows that because these climate models don't account for species competition ...

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created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Cockroach 'let's hook up' chemical signal could benefit endangered woodpecker

A North Carolina State University discovery of the unique chemical composition of a cockroach signal -- a "Let's hook up" sex pheromone emitted by certain female wood cockroaches to entice potential mates ...

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created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Only few seabird species contract avian malaria

Seabirds often live in large colonies in very confined spaces. Parasites, such as fleas and ticks, take advantage of this ideal habitat with its rich supply of nutrition. As a result, they can transmit blood ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Satellite data shows that Kirtland's warblers prefer forests after fire

(PhysOrg.com) -- Kirtland's warblers are an endangered species of lightweight little birds with bright yellow-bellies that summer in North America and winter in the Bahamas. But be it their winter or their ...

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created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds climate changes faster than species can adapt

The ranges of species will have to change dramatically as a result of climate change between now and 2100 because the climate will change more than 100 times faster than the rate at which species can adapt, ...

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created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Great Plains river basins threatened by pumping of aquifers

Suitable habitat for native fishes in many Great Plains streams has been significantly reduced by the pumping of groundwater from the High Plains aquifer – and scientists analyzing the water loss say ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2


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