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Underwater Elephants: Mixed Impacts of the World's Largest -- And Threatened -- Parrotfish
July 29, 2014 Scientists recently got back to basics in order to discover the positive and negative effects that bumphead parrotfish exert on coral reef ecosystems. Using direct observation, animal tracking and ... full story -
Biologist Warn of Early Stages of Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction Event
July 24, 2014 The planet's current biodiversity, the product of 3.5 billion years of evolutionary trial and error, is the highest in the history of life. But it may be reaching a tipping point. Scientists ... full story -
Invertebrate Numbers Nearly Halve as Human Population Doubles
July 24, 2014 Invertebrate numbers have decreased by 45 percent on average over a 35 year period in which the human population doubled, reports a study on the impact of humans on declining animal numbers. This ... full story -
Calcification in Changing Oceans
July 23, 2014 What do mollusks, starfish, and corals have in common? Aside from their shared marine habitat, they are all calcifiers -- organisms that use calcium from their environment to create hard carbonate ... full story -
Researchers Work to Save Endangered New England Cottontail
July 23, 2014 Scientists are working to restore New Hampshire and Maine's only native rabbit after new research based on genetic monitoring has found that in the last decade, cottontail populations in ... full story -
Vulnerability of Sharks as Collateral Damage in Commercial Fishing Shown by Study
July 22, 2014 A new study that examined the survival rates of 12 different shark species when captured as unintentional bycatch in commercial longline fishing operations found large differences in survival rates ... full story -
Insights Into Birds' Migration Routes
July 21, 2014 By tracking hybrids between songbird species, investigators have found that migration routes are under genetic control and could be preventing interbreeding. The research was conducted using ... full story -
Replacing Coal, Oil With Natural Gas Will Not Help Fight Global Warming, Expert Argues
July 21, 2014 Both shale gas and conventional natural gas have a larger greenhouse gas footprint than do coal or oil, especially for the primary uses of residential and commercial heating. "While emissions of ... full story -
Size and Age of Plants Impact Their Productivity More Than Climate
July 20, 2014 The size and age of plants has more of an impact on their productivity than temperature and precipitation, according to a landmark study. They show that variation in terrestrial ecosystems is ... full story -
Management of South Florida Coastal Environments
July 18, 2014 A unique formal process and modeling framework has been developed by researchers to help manage South Florida's economically important coastal marine environments. "One of the important ... full story -
Tiniest Catch: Scientists' Fishing Expedition Reveals Viral Diversity in Sea
July 17, 2014 Using bacteria as bait, scientists caught wild ocean viruses and then deciphered their genomes. They learned that the genetic lines between virus types in nature are less blurred than previously ... full story -
Glowing Red in the Big Blue: Red Fluorescence at Great Depths
July 15, 2014 Many fish species glow red and can see red light, even at depths where the red part of the sunlight spectrum has been absorbed by the water above. It was long assumed that red light did not play a ... full story -
Belize's Lobster, Conch, and Fish Populations Rebuild in No-Take Zones
July 13, 2014 A new report shows that no-take zones in Belize can not only help economically valuable species such as lobster, conch, and fish recover from overfishing, but may also help re-colonize nearby reef ... full story -
Ecologists Make First Image of Food Niche
July 11, 2014 The ecological niche concept is very important in ecology. But what a niche looks like is fairly abstract. Now, for the first time, researchers have concretely visualized the ecological niche. The ... full story -
Significant Harmful Algal Bloom Predicted in Western Lake Erie This Summer
July 10, 2014 NOAA and its research partners predict that western Lake Erie will have a significant bloom of cyanobacteria, a toxic blue-green algae, during the 2014 bloom season in late summer. However, the ... full story -
Invasion of Yellow Crazy Ant in a Seychelles UNESCO Palm Forest: Threats and Solutions
July 10, 2014 The yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes is ranked amongst the top 100 worst global invasive species and is responsible for catastrophic ecological impacts on islands. A new study examines and ... full story -
Hunting Gives Deer-Damaged Forests in State Parks a Shot at Recovery
July 9, 2014 Regulated deer hunts in Indiana state parks have helped restore the health of forests suffering from decades of damage caused by overabundant populations of white-tailed deer, a study shows. A ... full story -
Zebra, Quagga Mussels Trump Pollution as Change Agents in Lake Erie
July 9, 2014 Researchers find that invasive species, such as zebra mussels, have affected the composition of Lake Erie's zoobenthic community more than pollution has. In 1986, the zebra mussel was detected ... full story -
Beautiful but a Threat: Tropical Fish Invasion Destroys Kelp Forests
July 9, 2014 The migration of tropical fish as a result of ocean warming poses a serious threat to the temperate areas they invade, because they overgraze on kelp forests and seagrass meadows, a new study ... full story -
Frog Larvae Have Developed Rapid Defenses Against Red Swamp Crayfish
July 9, 2014 The common frog is one of the amphibians with the highest distribution in the Iberian Peninsula. It reproduces preferably in permanent areas of water where it comes into contact with the red swamp ... full story
- Biologist warn of early stages of Earth's sixth mass extinction event
- Invertebrate numbers nearly halve as human population doubles
- Insights into birds' migration routes
- Replacing coal, oil with natural gas will not help fight global warming, expert argues
- Significant harmful algal bloom predicted in western Lake Erie this summer
- Invasion of yellow crazy ant in a Seychelles UNESCO palm forest: Threats and solutions
- Hunting gives deer-damaged forests in state parks a shot at recovery
- Zebra, quagga mussels trump pollution as change agents in Lake Erie
- Beautiful but a threat: Tropical fish invasion destroys kelp forests
- Frog larvae have developed rapid defenses against red swamp crayfish
- Happy Feet III: Adιlie penguin population actually on the rise
- Rethinking the coral reef: How algal and coral cover affect the microscopic life that call the reef home
- Whales as ecosystem engineers: Recovery from overhunting helping to buffer marine ecosystems from destabilizing stresses
- DNA analysis reveals that queen bumblebees disperse far from their birthplace before setting up home
- Progress of comprehensive everglades restoration plan evaluated
- Climate change and the ecology of fear
- Invasive watersnakes introduced to California may pose risk to native species
- Carrots as effective as sticks for slowing Amazon deforestation
- Habitat loss, not poison, better explains grassland bird decline
- Protecting and connecting the Flathead National Forest in Montana
- Africa's poison 'apple' provides common ground for saving elephants, raising livestock
- A call to better protect Antarctica: Human activity threatening continent
- Fishing resources mapped to assist land managers, anglers
- Why species matter: Underlying assumptions and predictive ability of functional-group models used to study seabed communities
- Climate change deflecting attention from biodiversity loss
- Conserving remnants of West African tropical forest
- Caterpillars that eat multiple plant species are more susceptible to hungry birds
- Double trouble for the Mediterranean Sea: Acidification and warming threaten iconic species
- The 'microbial garden' taking the shine off glaciers
- Colonial-era dams trigger parallel evolution of Connecticut fish
- Genetics reveal that reef corals, their algae live together but evolve independently
- Mosquito control pesticide use in coastal areas poses low risk to juvenile oysters, hard clams
- Restoring grasslands: Ant diversity indicates restored grasslands
- Climate change: Termites, fungi play more important role in decomposition than temperature
- What a 66-million-year old forest fire reveals about the last days of the dinosaurs
- State of wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate research
- Sea star disease epidemic surges in oregon, local extinctions expected
- How red tide knocks out its competition
- Deep sea fish remove one million tons of carbon dioxide every year from UK and Irish waters
- Close-up of coral bleaching event
- Origin of biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil
- New look at old forests: Future growth of U.S. forests expected to decline
- Breaking down barriers: An appeal to conserve migratory ungulates in Mongolia's grasslands
- Decomposing logs show local factors undervalued in climate change predictions
- Hudson River: Long term study highlights changes, most a result of human activity
- Fishing vessels have big ecological footprint: Powerful seabird magnets
- Ecosystem services: Looking forward to mid-century
- Smells like deceit: A record number of species use the same odor to exploit each other
- New technologies making it easier to protect threatened species
- Delving into the spread of marine life: Understanding deep-sea limpets
- Vines choke a forest's ability to capture carbon
- New biodiversity study throws out controversial scientific theory
- With climate changing, Southern plants outperform Northern
- Next wave of research: Ecology, super-sized
- Tropical rain forests: Humans have more than doubled nitrogen inputs
- Site of mega-development project in Mexico is a biodiversity hotspot
- Super-charged tropical trees: Borneo’s productive trees vitally important for global carbon cycling
- Mummy-making wasps discovered in Ecuador
- How have changing sea-levels influenced evolution on the Galapagos Islands?
- Scientists challenge FIFA: Save the 3-banded armadillo
- Predator-prey made simple: Simplifying studies of predator-prey interactions and other 'bistable' systems
- Climate change study reveals unappreciated impacts on biodiversity
- Amphibians in a vice: Climate change robs frogs, salamanders of refuge
- Competition for ecological niches limits the formation of new species
- Switch from cattle fields to 'carbon farms' could tackle climate change, save endangered animals cheaply
- Genetic mix could benefit colonising plants, animals
- Ocean acidity is dissolving shells of tiny snails off U.S. West Coast
- Wetlands likely to blame for atmospheric methane increases: Study
- Crabs killing Northeast saltmarshes, study confirms
- Carbon loss from soil accelerating climate change
- Amazon rainforest survey could improve carbon offset schemes
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