Ecosystem News

Posted November 2, 2009:

• Robot Fish Could Monitor Water Quality

Posted October 29, 2009:

• Dining Out In An Ocean Of Plastic: How Foraging Albatrosses Put Plastic On The Menu
• Trees Facilitate Wildfires As A Way To Protect Their Habitat
• Fishery Impact Test Developed

Posted October 28, 2009:

• What Are Coral Reef Services Worth? $130,000 To $1.2 Million Per Hectare, Per Year

Posted October 27, 2009:

• Arctic Lake Sediments Show Warming, Unique Ecological Changes In Recent Decades

Posted October 26, 2009:

• Marine Lab Team Seeks To Understand Coral Bleaching
• Sage-grouse Populations In US Intermountain West May Be Threatened By Energy Development, Study Predicts
• Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Among Healthiest Coral Reefs In Gulf Of Mexico
• Finding The ASX200 For Marine Ecosystems

Posted October 25, 2009:

• Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is Unlike Natural Variation

Posted October 24, 2009:

• Ethiopia's Climate 27 Million Years Ago Had Higher Rainfall, Warmer Soil

Posted October 23, 2009:

• Genome Of Microbe Silently Shaping Ecology Of Ocean Dead Zones Described

Posted October 22, 2009:

• Nitrogen Mysteries In Urban Grasslands

Posted October 20, 2009:

• Carbon-offsetting And Conservation Can Both Be Winners In Rainforest
• Killer Algae: Key Player In Mass Extinctions
• Last Chance To Save Rare Asian Animal From Extinction?

Posted October 19, 2009:

• New Insights Into Marine Ecosystems And Fisheries Production

Posted October 17, 2009:

• Composted Dairy Manure In Foliage Plant Production

Posted October 15, 2009:

• Survey Data Supports Rapid Ice Loss: Largely Open Arctic Seas In Summer Within 10 Years

Posted October 14, 2009:

• Harvest And Save Water To Increase Crop Yields, Say Researchers
• World Will Miss 2010 Target To Stem Biodiversity Loss, Experts Say
• Whale-sized Genetic Study Largest Ever For Southern Hemisphere Humpbacks

Posted October 13, 2009:

• Report Documents Risks Of Giant Invasive Snakes In The United States
• First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa -- World's Biggest Snake
• A Tree's Response To Environmental Changes: What Can We Expect Over The Next 100 Years?

Posted October 11, 2009:

• Tropical Regions To Be Hardest Hit By Fisheries Shifts Caused By Climate Change

Posted October 8, 2009:

• Nitrogen Deposition Limits Climate Change Impacts On Carbon Sequestration
• In Search Of Wildlife-friendly Biofuels: Are Native Prairie Plants the Answer?

Posted October 7, 2009:

• Huelva Is Swallowing Up Coastal Lagoons In Doñana, Spanish Scientists Find

Posted October 4, 2009:

• Loss Of Top Predators Causing Surge In Smaller Predators, Ecosystem Collapse

Posted October 3, 2009:

• Quick Rebound From Marine Mass Extinction Event, New Findings Show
• Coral Bleaching Increases Chances Of Coral Disease

Posted October 1, 2009:

• Ancient Rainforests Resilient To Climate Change
• Planet's Nitrogen Cycle Overturned By 'Tiny Ammonia Eater Of The Seas'

Posted September 30, 2009:

• Air Pollutants From Abroad A Growing Concern, Says New Report

Posted September 27, 2009:

• Climate Change Mitigation Strategies Ignore Carbon Cycling Processes Of Inland Waters, Scientists Say

Posted September 21, 2009:

• New Species Discovered On Whale Skeletons
• Oceanographers Examine Mercury Levels Of Pelagic Fish In Hawaii
• Invasive Species On The March: Variable Rates Of Spread Set Current Limits To Predictability

Posted September 18, 2009:

• High Numbers Of Heat-loving Bacteria Found In Cold Arctic Ocean
• National New Biology Initiative Offers Potential For 'Remarkable And Far-reaching Benefits'

Posted September 17, 2009:

• Ocean Acidification: Impact On Key Organisms Of Oceanic Fauna May Be Worse Than Predicted
• Exotic Timber Plantations Found To Use More Than Twice The Water Of Native Forests

Posted September 16, 2009:

• Changes In Earth's Ozone Layer Predicted To Increase UV Radiation In Tropics And Antarctica
• Monitoring Illegal Wildlife Trade: DNA 'Barcodes' For 25 Hunted Wildlife Species Sequenced
• As Ash Borer Claims More Trees, Researcher Works For Species Survival

Posted September 15, 2009:

• Climate Change Adaptation Expected To Cost 2–3 Times More Than Previously Estimated

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