One of the basic principles of science is that the cause must come before the effect emphasises Docent Markku Oinonen who is the director of the Natural sciences Unit of the Finnish Museum of Natural history a University of Helsinki independent institute.
in ASU's School of Life sciences. Now we can provide all countries with detailed information about their CO2 emissions
After this discovery the moth was sent for identification to Dr Leif Aarvik from the Natural history Museum University of Oslo who have diagnosed the species as the commonly known G. permixtana
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None of the botanical literature suggested the Yangtze Valley although many people thought that it happened somewhere in China.
and Research Entomologist Mark Deyrup with the Archbold Biological Station in Florida identified each prey item to the lowest taxonomic level
In fact Charles darwin wrote In on the Origin of Species that â#no animal is more difficult to tame than the young of the wild rabbit;
Darwin used domestic animals as a proof-of-principle that it is possible to change phenotypes by selection.
Lead researcher Dr Cristina Banks-Leite from the Department of Life sciences at Imperial College London said:
but we think we've identified where in the world new roads would be most environmentally damaging said co-author Professor Andrew Balmford from the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology.
Specifically Anã Dhileepkumar Jayaraman a postdoctoral researcher in agronomy and Simon Gilroy a professor of botany studied how such a slight mechanical stimulus starts round one of a symbiotic relationship--that is a win-win relationship between two organisms.
A New zealand botanist has completed a 15-year study to reveal some surprises and discover astonishing cryptic diversity behind what was considered long a single tree species. The study was published in the open access journal Phytokeys.
Known to botanists as Kunzea ericoides this species was one of the many discoveries made in the northwestern South Island of New zealand by Jules SÃ bastien CÃ sar Dumont d'Urville during the first
Initially described by French Professor of botany Achille Richard as Leptospermum ericoides this species and the allied New zealand endemic Leptospermum sinclairii were merged in 1983 with three other Australian species under the oldest available name (L. ericoides) as a new combination in the related genus Kunzea.
which despite being recognised first as distinct by the missionary botanist William Colenso in the 1840s was denied formal recognition for some 170 years until now.
or the stem cells of the plant said Paula Mcsteen associate professor in the Division of Biological sciences and a researcher in the Bond Life sciences Center at MU.
'It was said completely serendipitous Mcglone who works in the Animal and Food Sciences department of the College of Agriculture and Natural sciences.
The immediate question to ornithologists or to anybody who has a birdfeeder in the backyard was:
A doctoral student in organismic and evolutionary biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology she is a member of the lab of Scott Edwards Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Researchers with Arizona State university's School of Life sciences led an investigation that quantified this loss in both the United states and Argentina.
While the phenomenon of woody plant invasion has been occurring for decades for the first time we have quantified the losses in ecosystem services said Osvaldo Sala Julie A. Wrigley Chair and Foundation Professor with ASU's School of Life sciences and School of Sustainability.
Representing organizations such as the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society the Zoological Society of London the Geos Institute
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The finding by Jim Westwood a professor of plant pathology physiology and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences throws open the door to a new arena of science that explores how plants communicate with each other on a molecular level.
The discovery of this novel form of inter-organism communication shows that this is happening a lot more than any one has realized previously said Westwood who is affiliated an researcher with the Fralin Life science Institute.
--and currently posted online as a preprint--Thomas Givnish a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison attempts to resolve this debate by studying how tree height resource allocation
Rice and maize are two main crops that depend on hybrid breeding said Shizhong Xu a professor of genetics in the UC Riverside Department of Botany
With a lower supply of coffee in the market prices rise and that favors fraud because of the economic gain says research team leader Suzana Lucy Nixdorf Ph d. In 2012 a study from the U k.'s Royal Botanic Gardens
The new research follows up on previous work from the laboratory of University of Illinois entomology professor
and assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural history on the UF campus. With a tree we can now understand how the majority of butterfly
Daniel Rubinoff entomologist and director of the University of Hawaii Insect Museum said the new study will help scientists conclusively pinpoint where butterflies belong in evolutionary history--a question that has troubled long researchers.
Some like Hawaii's State Flower-Hibiscus brackenridgei-are endangered species. Only a relatively few botanists
Remarkably in 2012 field botanists Hank Oppenheimer & Keahi Bustament with the Plant Extinction Prevention Program and Steve Perlman of the National Tropical Botanical garden found a population of these unique trees in a remote
What an important find said Maggie Sporck State Botanist for Hawaii's Division of Forestry and Wildlife.
Besides being beautiful it is a true contribution to Hawaiian natural history. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Pensoft Publishers.
and Life sciences with a joint appointment in the UA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
other new methods to rapidly identify pathogenshe calls himself the bug hunter but the target of his work consists of viruses that can only be found
and Herbert Hoi from the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology at the Vetmeduni Vienna are interested in the effects of light-at-night in wild birds.
headed by Katharina Mahr from the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology at the Vetmeduni Veinna is supported by the Hochschuljubilã¤umsstiftung of the City of Vienna.
5th International Conference on Plant Cell wall Biology and published in the journal New Phytologist. Powdery mildew is a significant problem wherever barley is grown around the world says Dr Little.
We wanted to look at the most important pest species of the most common tree species in urban areas of the southeastern United states says Dr. Steve Frank an assistant professor of entomology at NC State and senior author of the papers.
The outcome of a thematic project conducted under the FAPESP Research Program on Global Climate Change (PFPMCG) the study has just been published in the journal Environmental and Experimental Botany.
in Spain and in Brazil the Federal University of SãO Carlos (UFSCAR) the SãO Paulo State University (Unesp) and the North Fluminense State university (UENF) as well as the Cena at USP the Botanical Institute
The endangered New england cottontail is now is at risk of becoming extinct in the region according to NH Agricultural Experiment Station researchers at the University of New hampshire College of Life sciences
and dusk when the birds are most active the team found a 217%increased detection rate of the nightjar over those carried out by specialist ornithologists.
Traditional bird survey methods involve specialist ornithologists conducting field surveys to identify and count the birds they encounter.
The tree was initially a metaphor for the relatedness of all species. Charles darwin referred to the tree of life in his seminal 1859 book On the Origin of Species
and it did turn out to be said the case University of Illinois entomology professor and Institute for Genomic Biology director Gene Robinson who performed the new analysis together with entomology graduate student Marsha Wheeler.
The researchers limited their analysis to foraging bees which are older have a higher metabolic rate
I. entomology professor and department head May Berenbaum who reported that some substances in honey increase the activity of genes that help the bees break down potentially toxic substances such as pesticides.
Monica Turner a UW-Madison zoology professor and a graduate student in her lab have begun studies on the crazy worms'assault on soil.
and age influenced the way mammoths grew into the huge adults that captivate us today said co-author Zachary T. Calamari of the American Museum of Natural history who began investigating mammoths as a U-M undergraduate working with Fisher.
The study appears in Springer's Journal of Ornithology. The fossil of the Scansoriopteryx (which means climbing wing) was found in Inner Mongolia
Now--after a long search turned up a pathetic wilted third specimen--a University of Utah botanist
Bohs'study identifying S. cordicitum as a new species was published in the Aug 1 issue of the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. The three specimens of S. cordicitum--all now pressed
Bohs conducted the research with two other botanists: Stephen R. Stern who earned his doctorate at the University of Utah
In the same study the botanists elevate to full species status three other closely related plants that were named previously varieties of other Solanum species
A botanist wrongly identified the plant as S. heterodoxum. It later was identified wrongly re two more times:
The fieldwork that resulted in these discovered was supported by Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Our model offers a dispassionate unbiased view of the spread of btb through the cattle industry of Great Britain says model co-author Professor Matthew Keeling from Warwick's School of Life sciences and Department of mathematics.
In a paper published in the scientific journal New Phytologist plant ecologist Nishanth Tharayil and graduate student Mioko Tamura show that invasive plants can accelerate the greenhouse effect by releasing carbon stored in soil into the atmosphere.
Cornell entomologist Jeff Scott and colleagues analyzed levels of resistance to six insecticides in flies and they have identified the mutations that led to resistance in houseflies and from cattle farms in nine states around the country.
As more freshwater flows into the Arctic ocean due to global warming I think we are going to see it become more brackish said Eberle also curator of fossil vertebrates at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural history.
#Botany: Leafing out and climate changeglobal warming is expected generally to bring spring forward but as a new study at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich shows a concomitant influx of plant species from warmer southern latitudes could counteract this effect.
As Director of Munich's Botanic Garden she was in a position to remedy this situation.
Dr. Max Scott professor of entomology at NC State and his research team genetically modified lines of female Australian sheep blowflies (Lucilia cuprina) so that they required doses of tetracycline in order to live.
#Surprising spread of spring leaf-out timesdespite conventional wisdom among gardeners foresters and botanists that woody plants all leaf out at about the same time each spring a new study organized by a Boston
and nutrient cycling reported the study in the journal New Phytologist. Our open-access leaf-out data provide a critical framework for monitoring
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The study which appears in the June issue of the Journal of Mammalogy is authored by Joel Berger of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the John J. Craighead professor at University of Montana;
But researchers in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life sciences have found an effective way to kill poison ivy using a naturally occurring fungus that grows on the fleshy tissue surrounding the plant's seed potentially giving homeowners and forest managers the ability to rid
This poison ivy research has the potential to affect the untold millions of people who are allergic to poison ivy said Jelesko a Fralin Life science Institute faculty member.
in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences. Preconceived views about risks and benefits of agricultural genetic engineering
University of Florida scientists were part of a research team that this week unveiled a new tool that will help all plant scientists label (annotate in researcher parlance) genes far more quickly
because with 20000 to 30000 genes in a typical plant scientists can't possibly conduct experiments to find out what each and every gene is responsible for.
The open-access system described in a paper published online by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences integrates data from plant scientists around the world into a common platform
Plantseed will help plant scientists begin to make better use of genome information by helping them create consistently accurate models for all plant genomes contained in the database.
Because of tools like Plantseed plant scientists will eventually be able to do the same he said. You can't really make as much use of the genome information as we should be able to until you can do that kind of modeling for plants as well he said.
The more diverse the ant population the closer a restored section of grassland is to its original state according to Laura Winkler who recently completed her master's degree in plant science specializing in entomology at South dakota State university.
and natural history was funded through the Meierhenry Fellowship. Her research adviser was entomologist Paul J. Johnson professor of plant science.
Variation with agethe U s. Fish and Wildlife Service sites that had once been crop or pasture land were restored anywhere from one to four years ago according to Winkler.
Now new research funded by the NH Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) at the University of New hampshire College of Life sciences
Another was the sweet orange genome produced jointly by researchers at the DOE JGI the University of Florida and 454 Life sciences a Roche company.
BGI and the Kunming Institute of Zoology China; Utah State university and Baylor College of Medicine in the US;
when properly implemented these are included not as options under the new compulsory greening elements said Dr Lynn Dicks a co-author from the Department of Zoology in the University of Cambridge.
and grafts by host bodies is a huge hurdle for medical researchers said R. Michael Roberts Curators Professor of Animal Science and Biochemistry and a researcher in the Bond Life sciences Center.
Dr James Logan Senior Lecturer in Medical Entomology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Director of arctec said:
This is immensely important said Niklaus Grunwald who is a courtesy professor in the Department of Botany
As part of the American Journal of Botany's Centennial Review series Ellstrand reviews the history of gene flow focusing on plants
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Researchers Ramon Buxã archaeologist and director of the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia-Girona and MÃ nica Aguilera Udl researcher who is now working at the Paris Natural history Museum participated in the study too.
and sellers according to the new study published in the journal New Phytologist. Recent experiments in the forests of Sweden had brought into a question a long-held theory of biology:
and released the list May 22 to coincide with the birthday May 23 of Carolus Linnaeus an 18th century Swedish botanist who is considered the father of modern taxonomy.
or documented said Dr. Antonio Valdecasas chair of the selection committee and a biologist and research zoologist with Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid Spain.
Dr. Andrew Polaszek Natural history Museum England; Dr. Ellinor Michel Natural history Museum England; Marcelo Rodrigues de Carvalho Universidade de SãO Paulo;
Prof. Aharon Oren The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dr. Mary Liz Jameson Wichita State university U s a.;
Bt crops have had major benefits for society said Jeffrey Fabrick the lead author of the study and a research entomologist at the USDA Agricultural research service in Maricopa Arizona.
but this is the first analysis of the molecular genetic basis of severe pest resistance to a Bt crop in the field said Bruce Tabashnik one of the paper's authors and the head of the Department of Entomology in the UA College
of Agriculture and Life sciences. He also is a member of the UA's BIO5 Institute.
Our findings represent the first example of alternative splicing associated with Bt resistance that evolved in the field said Fabrick who is also an adjunct scientist in the Department of Entomology at UA.
and many other regions worldwide explained author Esmaeil Fallahi Director of Pomology at the University of Idaho.
Her study was funded through the university's Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and the Memphis Zoological Society.
Mississippi State scientists have worked with the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Zoology to monitor
Lead author Robert Haack a research entomologist with the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station in East Lansing Mich. and his colleagues found as much as a 52 percent drop in the infestation rate
and fossil sites decline due to human influences researchers from the Florida Museum of Natural history located on the UF campus described 16 new genera
Don Davis curator of Lepidoptera at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History said the Florida Museum has pursued actively the goals of all natural history museums including discovering new organisms to better understand the current distributions
but also an excellent well-documented specimen database for all future researchers in natural history Davis said.
and in the waters surrounding the island of Moorea in French polynesia Florida Museum invertebrate zoology curator Gustav Paulay dredged from the deep sea a new hermit crab that exemplifies a rarely documented process in which hermit crabs move out of their shells
when weeds interact with the crops they infest according to plant scientist Sharon Clay. Using sophisticated genetic-mapping techniques the South dakota State university professor
and shelter are deprived of that habitat. â#oethis can have cascading effects through the food chainâ#said Bill Overholt an entomology professor at UFÂ##s Indian River Research and Education Center in Fort
The team's research was made possible by funding from the Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
We wanted to understand the functional role of diversity says Dr. Hannah Burrack an associate professor of entomology at NC State
We think the benefit stems from differences in behavior between bee groups in part depending on the weather explains Dr. David Tarpy an associate professor of entomology at NC State
. and Canada alone said Jeff Wells associate scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the report's lead author.
Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences found that the best way to get rid of the little buggers is to fill a foil roasting pan with water
so we were able to exploit that with these traps said John Aigner a doctoral student in the Department of Entomology.
and Tom Kuhar an entomology professor and Virginia Cooperative Extension specialist enlisted the help of citizen scientists--homeowners who were annoyed by the infestation of stink bugs in their houses--to evaluate different types of traps for ridding homes
and Distributions shows that EABS were feasting on ash trees in southeast Michigan by the early 1990s well before this pest was discovered in 2002 said Deb Mccullough MSU professor of forest entomology.
Specialists at the Smithsonian Institute and London's Museum of Natural history could not identify the beetles.
Eventually an entomologist in Slovakia who intensively studied these and similar beetles was able to identify the specimens.
Still the species had no common name until the MSU entomologists and their colleagues came up with emerald ash borer.
From the perspective of the birds these things are from Mars. Knutie says the flies now infest all land birds there including most of the 14 species of Darwin's finches two
Nest flies have been implicated in population declines of Darwin's finches including the two endangered species. Clayton says the pesticide--permethrin--is safe for the birds:
Finches Nipping at a Clotheslinethe new study was done in the Galapagos islands where the diversity of finches helped inspire Charles darwin's theory of evolution after he visited in the 1830s.
when she noticed Darwin's finches were coming to my laundry line grabbing frayed fibers from the line and taking it away presumably back to their nests she recalls.
They found cotton balls were collected by at least four species of Darwin's finches: the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) small ground finch (Geospiza fuliginosa) small tree finch (Camarhynchus parvulus) and vegetarian finch (Platyspiza crassirostris.
Conrad C. Labandeira department of paleobiology Smithsonian Institution and department of entomology University of Maryland.
and dead trees in the Weber River basin the researchers built a tree-ring chronology that extends back 585 years into Utah's natural history.
It was one of those natural history moments that you long to see up close said de la Rosa the director of the La Selva Biological Station for the Organization for Tropical Field Studies in San pedro Costa rica.
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Lead researcher Dr James Gilroy from the University of East Anglia's school of Environmental sciences carried out the research while at the Norwegian University of Life sciences.
of Ornithology's Team Sapsucker is taking on another big challenge. In early May the team will head to the American Southwest following a new birding route they call El Gigante.
#Birthplace of the domesticated chili pepper identified in Mexicocentral-east Mexico gave birth to the domesticated chili pepper--now the world's most widely grown spice crop--reports an international team of researchers led by a plant scientist at the University of California Davis
Identifying the origin of the chili pepper is not just an academic exercise said UC Davis plant scientist Paul Gepts the study's senior author.
Charles darwin himself drew a distinction between conscious selection in which humans directly select for desirable traits
The comparable idea for plants said Olsen is the dump heap hypothesis originally proposed by Edgar Anderson a botany professor here at Washington University.
and Europe--parasites pathogens and pesticides--do not seem to be affecting Kenyan bees at least not yet said Christina Grozinger professor of entomology and director of the Center for Pollinator Research Penn State.
According to Harland Patch research scientist in entomology Penn State not only are flowering plants important for honeybees
Scientists now think wild animals interbred with domesticated ones until quite recentlymany of our ideas about domestication derive from Charles darwin
It is from Darwin that we inherit the ideas that domestication involved isolation of captive animals from wild species and total human control over breeding and animal care.
What would Darwin say? The research is really exciting because it is making us completely rethink what it means to be domesticated Marshall said.
It's probably fortunate the Darwin had clear examples of animal breeding to consider as he thought about evolution.
and dogs and Darwin then uses artificial selection as a springboard to introduce the theory of natural selection.
and the role of natural selection more important than Darwin thought. It is also the case that the people who first domesticated animals valued wild ones more than did Darwin's Victorian neighbors.
The Modern View of Domestication a special issue of PNAS edited by Greger Larson and Dolores R. Piperno resulted from a meeting entitled Domestication as an Evolutionary Phenomenon:
But when the plant scientists looked at comparable genetic mechanisms in domesticated plants they found the reverse to be true.
but where coffee production is expanding across the globe it tends to be very intensive says Shalene Jha assistant professor in The University of Texas at Austin's College of Natural sciences
As biologists and specifically as botanists what really struck us was the diversity of fresh plant crops mostly of subtropical/tropical origin that were available in ethnic markets in the northern U s. Like their ancestors who traveled from Europe Africa
The study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Botany includes the analysis of nearly 100 tropical crops
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The study which appears in Northeastern Naturalist (2014 Volume 21 Issue 1) presents an evaluation of the potential influence of climate change and habitat alteration on species occurrence patterns over time.
The technique available in his lab is truly first class and an invaluable resource for plant scientists worldwide.
Findings from this wheat field-test study led by a UC Davis plant scientist will be reported online April 6 in the journal Nature Climate Change.
This dream is coming closer to reality for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers who have developed a new computer model that can help plant scientists breed better soybean crops.
The paper published in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Ecology gives farmers of pollination-dependent crops tangible results to convert marginal acreage to fields of wildflowers said Rufus Isaacs MSU entomologist
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