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Biodiversity: It's In The Water
What if hydrology is more
important for predicting
biodiversity than biology?
New research challenges
current thinking about
biodiversity, and opens up
new avenues for predicting
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Eel Fishing Multiplies The Accidental Capture Of Other Fish By Eight
In the Ebro River delta, the
fishing of elver (an eel,
Anguilla anguilla) leads to
the accidental capture of
other fish species, with the
capture of one ton of elver
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'Fishery Failure' Declared For West Coast Salmon Fishery
Officials declared a
commercial fishery failure
for the West Coast salmon
fishery due to historically
low salmon returns. Hundreds
of thousands of fall Chinook
... > full story
New Ocean Current Discovered
Scientists have discovered a
new climate pattern, the
North Pacific Gyre
Oscillation. This pattern
explains, for the first
time, changes in the water
important in helping
... > full story
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Male Seahorses Are Nature's Mr. Mom, Researchers Say
May 2, 2008 — Male seahorses are nature's real-life Mr. Moms -- they take fathering to a whole new level: pregnancy. Although it is common for male fish to play the dominant parenting role, male pregnancy is a ... > full story -
Controlling Invasive Fish: Waterfalls Control Spread Of Lake Trout In Glacier National Park
April 28, 2008 — Natural barriers like waterfalls play an important role in preventing lake trout from spreading through Glacier National Park, so maintaining those barriers should be a priority, researchers said ... > full story -
New Fish Romping In The Southern Baltic Competes With Flounder, But Feeds Predatory Fish
April 28, 2008 — In less than three decades the round goby has become one of the most colorful features of the southern Baltic. The fish, which comes from the Black Sea, has rapidly adapted to Baltic conditions and ... > full story -
Rare Musk Ox May Be Threatened By Climate Change
April 27, 2008 — The Wildlife Conservation Society recently launched a four-year study to determine if climate change is affecting populations of a quintessential Arctic denizen: the rare musk ox. The research team ... > full story -
Arctic Marine Mammals On Thin Ice
April 26, 2008 — The loss of sea ice due to climate change could spell disaster for polar bears and other Arctic marine mammals. Sea ice is the common habitat feature uniting these unique and diverse Arctic ... > full story -
Can Certain Metals Repel Sharks From Fishing Gear?
April 24, 2008 — Sharks in captivity avoid metals that react with seawater to produce an electric field, a behavior that may help fishery biologists develop a strategy to reduce the bycatch of sharks in longline ... > full story -
Deep-sea Sharks Wired For Sound
April 23, 2008 — Deep-sea sharks have been tagged and tracked and their habitats precisely mapped in world-first research to test the conservation value of areas closed to commercial ... > full story -
Building A Global Reference Library Of DNA Barcodes Of Marine Life
April 23, 2008 — The global Fish Barcode of Life Initiative plans to collect at least five representatives each of all 30,000 plus marine and freshwater species in the world. FISH-BOL is part of the global Consortium ... > full story -
Fishing Throws Targeted Species Off Balance, Study Shows
April 21, 2008 — Fishing activities can provoke volatile fluctuations in the populations they target, but it's not often clear why. Fishing can alter the "age pyramid" by lopping off the few large, older fish that ... > full story -
Mercury In River Moves Into Terrestrial Food Chain Through Spiders Fed To Baby Birds
April 20, 2008 — Songbirds feeding near the contaminated South River are showing high levels of mercury, even though they aren't eating food from the river itself, according to a new article in Science. Mercury is ... > full story
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