and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that 705588 carbon credits are certified for sale from the Makira Forest REDD+Project.
Along with its benefits to wildlife the sale will directly benefit local communities living around the protected area by allocating 50 percent of the net revenues of carbon sales to improve local infrastructure provide health
it helps wildlife local people and fights climate change said Todd Stevens Vice president of the Makira Carbon Company a nonprofit subsidiary of WCS.
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The research which monitored bats as an indicator for environmental change on Borneo is the first of its kind to have wildlife in forests logged more than two times.
and wildlife in logged rainforests.''says Dr Struebig.''For biodiversity simple measures such as setting artificial nest boxes for bats and birds may
and peas the researchers report in the journal Nature. The researchers studied second-growth forests in Panama that had been used for agriculture five to 300 years ago The presence of legume trees ensured rapid forest growth in the first 12 years of recovery and thus a substantial
and its players in the Sept. 13 2013 online edition of Nature Communications Our results suggest that successful farming is a complex evolutionary adaptation
As the researchers said in a Nature paper published in 2011 about a third of the wild clones carry seed and prudently harvest edible bacteria qualifying as farmers albeit primitive ones.
In the Nature Communications'article the scientists describe assays where they mixed farmers and nonfarmers in different proportions to see how they would do in direct competition with one another.
and grow as nature intended. He says a more hands on approach will be needed in the immediate future to protect the region from massive population loss.
The work was supported by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service Asian Elephant Conservation Fund and the Rufford Small Grants Foundation.
Today in a paper appearing online in Nature Jackson and colleagues present first evidence of a functional interaction between an important class of signaling molecule called A g protein which binds receptors and an unexpected class of cell-surface receptors.
Nature is a very good chemist and we are learning from that and sometimes improving on it with new edible coatings that protect the quality and nutritional value of food.
Nature has set the standard and it is daunting. Apples oranges bananas nuts--all come in packaging that is edible or compostable.
and grass in a garden compost pile uncertainties exist about the nature and fate of the degradation products released during the breakdown.
Additionally scientists now gain deeper insight into the dynamic nature of the interstellar winds which has major implications on the size structure
and nature of our sun's heliosphere--the gigantic bubble that surrounds our solar system and helps shield us from dangerous incoming galactic radiation.
Stanford biologists have been studying the intersection of nature and agriculture in Costa rica since the 1990s in part because of the vast amounts of land in that country dedicated to coffee production.
And cooperation from Mother Nature in terms of temperature and precipitation doesn't hurt either. To quantify the impact of genetic improvement in wheat disease
The perennial nature of biomass crops also makes developing contracts challenging. We're in a unique environment
The Rice group of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan reported today in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports that the supercapacitor is reliable at temperatures of up to 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees
Now the same researchers are probing a secret of nature of potentially great commercial interest as well:
The study is published in the September 1 online issue of Nature Geoscience. Humanmade climate change comes mostly from the radiative forcing of greenhouse gases and air pollutants or aerosols.
The study published in the journal Nature Climate Change and carried out by researchers at the University of Exeter
Another possibility is that red spruce may be one of nature's winners in the face of climate change.
Wildlife biologists are forced sometimes to move animals from one population to another. In places where breeding and migratory patterns have been disrupted
In Northwest Montana for example the Montana Department of transportation built 41 fish and wildlife crossing structures 16 miles of wildlife fencing 39 jump outs
and many wildlife-crossing guards to mitigate the expansion of U s. 93 and prevent habitat isolation.
PSW Research Wildlife Biologist Dr. Hartwell Welsh and Garth Hodgson examined two species of woodland salamanders across four stages of tree development at Mill Creek--a disturbed
If restored it can provide migration corridors for rare absent and native wildlife. Report: http://www. fs. fed. us/psw/publications/welsh/psw 2013 welsh 001. pdfstory Source:
I believe it lies in our human nature. Such plantings could have a huge impact on the Greenlandic countryside of the future as a source of dissemination.
and planting species takes place without any control this could lead to nature developing in a very chaotic way reminiscent of the Klondike warns Professor Svenning.
and displace the hunter-gatherer cultures that had lived there for millennia specifies the article in Nature with reference to the Leche project.
The research published in Nature Communications today (27 august) gives new insights into the movements of prehistoric humans and the transition of technologies and knowledge.
This study published in Nature Communications today provides an invaluable resource for the genetic improvement of sorghum
The study published today in Nature was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases (NIAID) a component of the National institutes of health and other organizations.
In an article published recently in the American Ornithologist Union's publication The Auk research wildlife biologist Scott Stoleson of the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station suggests that forest regrowth in clearcuts
Humans have changed really the nature of mature forests in the Northeast Stoleson said. Natural processes that once created open spaces even within mature forests such as fire are controlled largely diminishing the availability of quality habitat.
A new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society says that the American alligator and a dozen other crocodile species enjoy an occasional taste of fruit along with their normal meat-heavy diets of mammals birds and fish.
Steven Platt of the Wildlife Conservation Society; Ruth M. Elsey of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries;
Hong Liu of Florida International University and the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Thomas R. Rainwater of the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service;
James C. Nifong of the University of Florida; Adam E. Rosenblatt and Michael R. Heithaus of Florida International University;
Although underreported fruit eating appears widespread among crocodilians said the study's lead author Steven Platt of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and first author of the study. Researchers from theizw the University of Namibia and other Namibian partners found that gemsbok (also called oryx) adjusted its diet according to season.
Because global climate change increases drought periods and enhances desertification in Southern Africa it is crucial to understand how wildlife species respond to the impoverishment of their natural environments and the decline of their food sources.
Furthermore gemsbok and springbok are two of the main protein sources for local communities who would be affected negatively by declining wildlife population sizes.
therefore fundamental to establish sustainable wildlife management plans. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V. FVB.
#Huge owls need huge treesa study spearheaded by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Minnesota has shown that the world's largest owl
Authors include Jonathan Slaght of the Wildlife Conservation Society R. J. Guti rrez of the University of Minnesota and Sergei Surmach of the Institute of Biology and Soils (Russian Academy of Sciences.
and salmon populations said lead author Jonathan Slaght of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Retention of habitat for fish owls will also maintain habitat for many other species associated with riparian old-growth forests in the Russian Far east.
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Nature Communications. This demonstrates the adverse effects of added sugars at human-relevant levels says University of Utah biology professor Wayne Potts the study's senior author He says previous studies using other tests
You then have to try to infer what the nature of the eruption was when this is the only information you've got.
which volunteers count birds that visit feeders at backyards nature centers community areas and other locations from November through early April.
and desire are amplified said Matthew walker a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience and senior author of the study published Aug 6 in the journal Nature Communications.
What's more the 2-D nature of this system could allow it to be fabricated right on a chip along with the necessary control circuits and other components.
and a simplification of their cultural traditions and their relationship with wildlife a team of researchers led by a University of Colorado Boulder geographer has concluded.
and the species is classified as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources'Red List.
Discovered in 1878 by the Florentine botanist Odoardo Beccarini the Titan arum another common name given the plant by Sir David Attenborough in his BBC nature documentary series heats up as it blooms
Nature does it better adds Becker's colleague Volker Wulfmeyer if we understand and can make use of it in a sustainable manner.
research showsit might be easier than previously thought for a planet to overheat into the scorchingly uninhabitable runaway greenhouse stage according to new research by astronomers at the University of Washington and the University of Victoria published July 28 in the journal Nature Geoscience.
and adolescents the nature of this influence is different between the age groups said Moghaddam. We observed changes in areas of the brain responsible for decision making and habit formation.
This research increases our confidence that this disease-causing fungus is in fact an invasive species Bayless said Its presence among bats in Europe where it does not cause mass mortality could suggest hope for bats suffering from this devastating wildlife disease.
The study is based on a foundation of collaborative research among the U s. Forest Service the USGS National Wildlife Health Center
and the U s. Fish & Wildlife Service and is a continuation of pioneering research initiated by Canadian researchers at the University of Alberta
For this study in particular USGS and Fish & Wildlife Service partners played critical roles collecting the fungi used in these studies.
The international team's work is detailed in two papers published online today in Nature.
and oil yield explains Dr. Rajinder Singh of the MPOB first author of the Nature paper describing the Shell gene.
#Dangers to biological diversity from proliferation of global cashmere garment industrya new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Snow leopard Trust reveals a disturbing link between the cashmere trade and the decay
The study finds that as pastoralists expand goat herds to increase profits for the cashmere trade in Western markets wildlife icons from the Tibetan Plateau to Mongolia suffer--including endangered snow leopard wild yak chiru saiga Bactrian camel
Ecological effects of the growth in goat herds include increasing conflicts with pastoralists predation by dogs on wildlife retaliatory killing of snow leopards and displacement of wildlife away from critical food habitats.
The study results from fieldwork in India western China and Mongolia and builds upon economic data including herder profits changes in livestock numbers and the relative abundance of wildlife.
The consequences are dramatic and negative for iconic species that governments have signed legislation to protect yet the wildlife is continually being squeezed into a no-win situation says lead author Joel Berger a biologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society and professor at University of Montana.
The purpose of the study is to raise awareness among western consumers about the origins of cashmere and its growing impact on wildlife.
In the absence of commitment across global and local scales the iconic wildlife of the world's highest mountains and great steppes will cease to persist as they have for millennia.
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and the Wildlife Conservation Society warn that current hunting trends in Central African forests could result in complete ecological collapse.
M. E. Lee of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit and University of Oxford; and Fiona Maisels of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the African Forest Ecology Group.
Humans have lived in the forests of Central africa for thousands of years until recently practicing subsistence hunting for the needs of their communities said Kate Abernethy lead author of the study.
and reports on the region's wildlife declines hunting trends and land-use analyses by humans.
The authors warn that such plantations greatly reduce areas available for seed dispersing wildlife. Another emerging problem for Central africa's forests is the migration of large numbers of people into remote forests around the new plantations
Otherwise the loss of wildlife will result in a disastrous spiral of forest degradation that will reduce the storage of carbon and the resilience of rainforests to climate change.
The people the forests and the wildlife need an emergency effort to bring illegal and unsustainable hunting under control.
Much of the data analyzed for this study was collected with the support of the US Fish & Wildlife Service and USAID's Central africa Regional Program for the Environment.
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In some regions of northwestern Europe grassland butterflies are restricted now almost to road verges railway sidings rocky or wet places urban areas and nature reserves.
Areas using traditional low-input farming systems known as High Nature Value Farmland are also important habitats.
For those two key crops a computer model could predict crop failures three months in advance for about 20 percent of global cropland according to the study published July 21 in Nature Climate Change.
The study published in Nature Publishing Group's Scientific Reports looked at the frequency of'micronuclei'--a telltale sign of chromosomal damage (that has been shown by others previously to be linked to cancer) by screening more than 400000 individual cells extracted from urine samples
But Mother Nature's also giving us this picture we know is full of dark matter
Of these three improving the efficiency of the IT devices is overwhelmingly the most important said Jonathan Koomey a co-author of the study Characteristics of Low-Carbon Data centers published online June 25 in Nature Climate Change.
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications North carolina State university plant pathologist Jean Ristaino
A new study to be published in Nature's The ISME Journal reveals the profound effect it has on enriching soil with bacteria fungi and protozoa.
In addition factors such as the ph nature and amount of adsorbent used for extraction were considered to establish the optimum conditions under which tomato peel could remove various pollutants from water.
Mainland Africas most important nation for primatesa five-year study by the Wildlife Conservation Society gives new hope to some of the world's most endangered primates by establishing a roadmap to protect all 27 species
Authors are Tim Davenport of the Wildlife Conservation Society Katarzyna Nowak of the Udzungwa Elephant Project and Andrew Perkin of the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group.
and Jozani-Chwaka Bay) one nature reserve (Kilombero) and two forest reserves (Minziro and Mgambo) totaling 8679 square kilometers (3350 square miles) would protect all 27 of Tanzania
's primate species. The authors say that the Priority Primate Areas could be applied in other nations rich in wildlife
For a developing nation of such global conservation importance like Tanzania priority setting is an essential tool in managing wildlife.
and the needs of wildlife said James Deutsch WCS Executive director for Africa Programs. Science-based priority setting tools like this one are the best chance for developing nations to minimize biodiversity loss.
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However what has been unclear is the nature of early European farming and the role it has played in shaping social and economic change.
'The fact that farmers made long-term investments such as manuring in their land sheds new light on the nature of early farming landscapes in Neolithic times.
The EU's Common Agricultural Policy must account for the cost of not working with nature.
la nature et les technologies and the Fonds de la recherche en sant du Qu bec.
In an international collaboration led by the U s. Department of energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) the most recent findings from exploring microbial dark matter were published online July 14 2013 in the journal Nature.
Microbes are the most abundant and diverse forms of life On earth said Tanja Woyke DOE JGI Microbial Program Head and senior author on the Nature publication.
The Nature publication Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter builds upon a DOE JGI pilot project the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea GEBA:
The results recently published in Nature Genetics and PNAS respectively unveil a long shared history of co-evolution between the host and the pest and the unexpected success of asexually produced mildew offspring.
This study was conducted by the Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in collaboration with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Wildlife Plus Consulting Grasslans Charitable Foundation the Kansas Cooperative Fish
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and wildlife managers should be aware of complex indirect effects of climate change in addition to the more obvious influences of higher temperatures and irregular weather patterns.
and Planetary Sciences the USDA Forest Service Ohio State university Indiana University and the Karlsruhe Institute of technology in Germany is described in a July 10 paper in Nature.
With the arrival of wind energy projects in Kansas and throughout the Plains Sandercock and his team were part of a consortium of stakeholders--including conservationists wildlife agencies
Collaborators on the wind development project include Samantha Wisely associate professor of wildlife ecology and conservation at the University of Florida;
Lance Mcnew 2010 doctoral graduate in biology and research wildlife biologist with the U s. Geological Survey at the Alaska Science Center;
the Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism; the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; and The Nature Conservancy.
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#Huge iceberg breaks away from the Pine Island glacier in the Antarcticon July 8 2013 a huge area of the ice shelf broke away from the Pine Island glacier the longest
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The results of the study Clouds and Temperature Drive Dynamic Changes in Tropical Flower Production was published July 7 in the journal Nature Climate Change.
This is demonstrated by a study published in Nature that has been carried out at the University of Bern.
which has just been published in the Nature journal. They say that a global temperature target is neither sufficient nor suitable to avoid further damage that is relevant for communities and ecosystem services.
Yet it has been challenging to figure out how to sustain the many benefits people obtain from nature--so-called ecosystem services--in any given landscape
hipposuniversity of Utah researchers developed a new weapon to fight poachers who kill elephants hippos rhinos and other wildlife.
Not only can the method help wildlife forensics to combat poaching but we've shown that you can use the signature in animal tissues left over from nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere to study modern ecology
and Samuel Andanje Patrick Omondi and Moses Litoroh all of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Ivory Trade Drives Elephant Slaughterinternational agreements banned most trade of raw ivory from Asian elephants after 1975 and African elephants after 1989.
Michigan State university partnered with the Chinese Academy of Sciences has capitalized on their long history of research in the Wolong Nature Reserve to get a complete picture of the environmental and socioeconomic effects of payments for ecosystem services programs.
because the climate has shifted to become suitable for another set of species. This also makes it challenging to adhere to a management plan granting preservation status to a particular type of nature at a certain site.
but at the same time nature is SO slow. Just think of a tree generation. Our entire culture is based on something that was if not in complete equilibrium then at least relatively predictable.
With nature in such a state of disequilibrium human introduction of new species will play a key role.
Their work is published in the June 30 2013 online issue of Nature Climate Change. The inclusion of tropical tree-ring records enabled the team to generate an archive of ENSO activity of unprecedented accuracy as attested by the close correspondence with records from equatorial Pacific corals and with an independent Northern hemisphere
While the exposure of wildlife to rodenticides and insecticides near agricultural fields is not uncommon the amount
According to co-author PSW wildlife biologist Dr. Kathryn Purcell exposure of wildlife to pesticides has been documented widely
By increasing the number of animals that die from supposedly natural causes these pesticides may be tipping the balance of recovery for fishers says Dr. Craig Thompson a PSW wildlife ecologist and the study's lead author.
While the exposure of wildlife to rodenticides and insecticides near agricultural fields is not uncommon the amount
According to co-author PSW wildlife biologist Dr. Kathryn Purcell exposure of wildlife to pesticides has been documented widely
By increasing the number of animals that die from supposedly natural causes these pesticides may be tipping the balance of recovery for fishers says Dr. Craig Thompson a PSW wildlife ecologist and the study's lead author.
Virginia Tech and World Wildlife Fund researchers have found that tigers in central Sumatra live at very low densities lower than previously believed according to a study in the April 2013 issue of Oryx--The International Journal of Conservation.
and co-researchers Marcella Kelly an associate professor of wildlife in the College of Natural resources and Environment and Erin Poor of East Lansing Mich. a doctoral student studying wildlife science and geospatial
Sunarto a tiger and elephant specialist with World Wildlife Fund-Indonesia collaborated on the paper with Kelly Professor Emeritus Michael Vaughan
and Sybille Klenzendorf managing director of WWF's Species Conservation Program who earned her master's and doctoral degrees in wildlife science from Virginia Tech.
Oklahoma's Nature Conservancy; Turner Enterprises; and other federal state nonprofit and commercial entities. The organizations kept annual records of each animal in the herd and matched the data with the climates of the sites.
which is owned jointly by The Nature Conservancy and Kansas State university. Managed by the university's Division of Biology the Konza Prairie spans about 8600 acres.
The work is published online in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften--The Science of Nature. The first time bees go out looking for nectar
They applied a technique developed by paper co-author Brad Mcrae of the Nature Conservancy that's based on how electricity finds the path of least resistance when traveling across circuit boards.
The mountainous region from Yellowstone to the Yukon is recognized widely as an important wildlife movement corridor now our study maps additional pathways across the Western hemisphere with the potential to shepherd species to safety in a warming future Olden said Climate change
Nature conservationists call it lingering illness and the latest report on the North-Rhine Westphalian forest conditions confirms ongoing damage.
Wu Yang an MSU-CSIS doctoral student and his colleagues studied how groups in the Wolong Nature Reserve worked to participate in China's massive Natural Forest Conservation Program.
Andr s Viã a assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife; and former CSIS doctoral students Wei Liu now a postdoctoral fellow at IIASA in Laxenburg Austria Mao-Ning Tuanmu now a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
It's difficult to think that we can actually find a process that improves on nature says Aylward
Tour and his colleagues developed a method for unzipping nanotubes into GNRS revealed in a 2009 cover story in Nature.
--but now the genes underlying these phenomena of nature have been revealed. In the online journal elife a large international group of scientists led by investigators at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have traced the thousands of genes in a plant that are activated once ethylene a gas that acts as a plant
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