In South africa game meat biltong (air dried strips) is big business with over 10000 wildlife farms
and mangrove swamps as current--and possibly future--wildlife refuges Katarzyna Nowak a former postdoctoral researcher of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton compiled a list of 60 primates
In 2008 the Wildlife Conservation Society reported that the inaccessible Lake T l swamp forest in the Republic of the Congo was home to 125000 lowland gorillas--more than were thought to exist in the wild.
with only 1700 elephants now remaining according to wildlife surveys by WCS and DRC officials. WCS scientists warn that
Additional results from recent surveys show that other wildlife in the reserve fared much better including the highly important eastern chimpanzee population (approximately 6000 individuals) okapi and duikers (small forest antelopes) with almost no change in their estimated
WCS in partnership with the DRC government's wildlife department (Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature--ICCN) is committed to ensure the viability of the Reserve for the wildlife and people of DRC the fifth
and commitment to protect wildlife under the most difficult circumstances. We remain stalwart in our partnership with them
Funding for the three censuses came from the United states Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) the Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) a US Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative for biodiversity
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#Exurban residences impact bird communities up to 200 meters away, study findsaccording to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) impacts to bird communities from a single rural exurban
Michale Glennon and Heidi Kretser of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Rural exurban development is residential development existing outside of cities
and composition increased human wildlife conflicts new predator-prey dynamics and decreased biotic integrity (a measure of how pristine a wildlife community is).
Adirondackers take great pride in their surroundings and try not to unduly disturb the natural setting in
and other wildlife react to particular kinds of human activities and find ways to minimize the negative impacts for wildlife in exurban areas.
The study found that species sensitive to human impacts include the black-throated blue warbler black-throated green warbler hairy woodpecker hermit thrush ovenbird scarlet tanager and the winter wren.
WCS Livelihoods and Conservation Coordinator Heidi Kretser said Some wildlife species are sensitive to exurban development
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If this is right then human language has a precursor in nature in evolution that we can actually test today he says adding that bees birds
but based in part on capacities humans share with other species. At the same time Miyagawa notes human language is unique in that two independent systems in nature merged in our species to allow us to generate unbounded linguistic possibilities albeit within a constrained
and cannot do based on its antecedents in nature. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Massachusetts institute of technology.
terrestrial wildlife; air quality; and social economic and cultural components--all of which make up socioecological systems.
The work is published online in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften--The Science of Nature. Very few flowers are a simple block of a single color.
Venation patterns might be prevalent in nature because they can be useful nectar guides particularly
#Turning pine sap into evergreen plasticsplastic bags are a bane of nature. And not just bags--just about all plastics really.
The article has been published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Lund University.
In contrast perennial plants in nature grow slower but are equipped usually better to fight off invading viruses.
To understand the complete ecology of viruses researchers are now studying these tiny organisms in nature too.
and other plants to absorb atmospheric CO2 for photosynthesis. In nature the CO2 is released eventually back into the atmosphere as the plant decays.
#Southwest regional warming likely cause of pinyon pine cone declinecreeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction a finding with implications for wildlife species sharing the same woodland ecosystems says a University
Some scientists believe masting events evolved to produce a big surplus of nut-carrying cones--far too many for wildlife species to consume in a season--making it more likely the nuts eventually will sprout into pinyon pine seedlings she said.
Wildlife biologists say pinyon-juniper woodlands are popular with scores of bird and mammal species ranging from black-chinned hummingbirds to black bears.
Mother nature provides us with natural fingerprints in the ratio of oxygen isotopes explained Leander.
and breakup of continents could change the nature of subduction zones generating oscillations between continental-and island-arc dominated states.
But the nature of the arcs themselves whether they are continental or oceanic does change.
Study results appeared online Feb 3 in Nature Genetics. What is RNA silencing and what is its significance?
#11,000 elephants slaughtered in national park once home to Africa s largest forest elephant populationthe Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced February 6 that a national park once home to Africa's largest forest elephant
) The survey was funded by ANPN the CITES MIKE (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) Program and the United states Fish and Wildlife Service.
Speaking in a cabinet meeting the president urgently called for a strong coordinated and decisive response to this national emergency from all of the security and wildlife management services.
Richard Ruggiero Chief of the Branch of the Near east South Asia and Africa Division of International Conservation U s. Fish & Wildlife Service said:
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#Biodiversity helps protect nature against human impactsyou don't know what you've got'til it's collapsed.
Their research published February 6 as the cover story in Nature suggests farmers and resource managers should not rely on seemingly stable but vulnerable single-crop monocultures.
The 10-hectare site owned by the Nature Conservancy of Canada consists of oak savannah where fires have been suppressed for about 150 years.
In a paper published online Feb 6 2013 by the journal Nature a team of climate scientists from the University of Exeter the Met Office-Hadley Centre
#Worlds oldest-known wild bird hatches another chicka Laysan albatross known as Wisdom--believed to be at least 62 years old--has hatched a chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife
and Wildlife Service biologist Pete Leary who said the chick appears healthy. Wisdom was banded first in 1956
and Wildlife Service superintendent for the Papahä naumokuä kea Marine National monument (Monument) which includes Midway Atoll NWR.
Bruce Peterjohn chief of the North american Bird Banding Program at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research center in Laurel MD said Wisdom has raised likely at least 30 to 35 chicks during her breeding life though the number
Nineteen of 21 species of albatross are threatened with extinction according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
and was carried out at the University of Sheffield and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany.
and colleagues published online February 3 in Nature Genetics represent the culmination of over a decade of research
One of the most fundamental laws of nature is that if you are going to be an altruist give it up to your closest relatives said Friedman.
#Scientists use Amazon Cloud to view molecular machinery in remarkable detailin this week's Nature Methods Salk researchers share a how-to secret for biologists:
In their Nature Methods paper the researchers offer other scientists the tools they need to use an easier alternative-the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon Elastic EC2) a service that provides access to supercomputing via the Internet
These included the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) the University of California at Santa barbara (UCSB) Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC.
and species commented Robin Abell the Senior Freshwater Conservation Biologist at World Wildlife Fund. The Madeira river basin for example is threatened by oil exploration deforestation
Also unlike graphene the atomic arrangement can change without changing the nature of the material.
Individuals moved through up to five countries over a period of 200 days emphasising the need for conservation collaboration among countries to protect this species. In South africa the vultures avoided the national parks that have been established to conserve wildlife.
In other words with nature under stress Bertness hopes that He's efforts to pull together the available data will lead ecologists to pull together
#New research shows complexity of global warmingglobal warming from greenhouse gases affects rainfall patterns in the world differently than that from solar heating according to a study by an international team of scientists in the January 31 issue of Nature.
In the short term though this is basic research that is driven by the curiosity of ecologists to understand nature better.
Our new fiber is based on a structure we found in nature and through clever engineering we've taken its capabilities a step further says lead author Mathias Kolle a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS).
Nature Biotechnology featured the reference genome of the CDC Frontier chickpea variety and genome sequence of 90 cultivated and wild genotypes from 10 different countries as an online publication on 27 january 2013.
He is one of the authors of the new work that appears this week in Nature Nanotechnology.
Anne Yoder senior author on the study and Director of the Duke Lemur Center said the research is particularly important now as lemurs have been identified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as the most endangered mammals on earth.
As human population growth in Madagascar drives people and their livestock into previously uninhabited areas wildlife-human disease transmission becomes increasingly likely.
and the very important results are published in the scientific journal Nature. In the last millions years Earth's climate has alternated between ice ages lasting about 100000 years and interglacial periods of 10000 to 15000 years.
Together with WCS studies on jaguars the results underscore the importance of this protected area complex for the conservation of Latin america's most charismatic terrestrial wildlife species. The Madidi-Tambopata landscape is estimated to hold a population of at least 14500 lowland
These results underline the fundamental importance of protected areas for the conservation of larger species of wildlife threatened by hunting and habitat loss.
and wildlife including lowland tapirs including road construction logging unsustainable natural resource use and agricultural expansion. Julie Kunen WCS Director of Latin america and Caribbean Programs said:
Their dedication is clearly paying off with well-managed protected areas and more wildlife. WCS's conservation research in the Madidi-Tambopata Landscape has been made possible by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation the blue moon fund USAID
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They are autumnal fruits highly valued by wildlife because of its large size its abundance and its high calorie lipid and carbohydrate.
The nature maintains its compensation mechanisms and an apparent harmful beetle can be attractive to voles that at the same time releases acorns from this enemy
Wildlife conservationists are well aware of the potential conflicts that exist between the endangered species they seek to protect and the human populations
if the human dimensions and social context of human-wildlife conflict situations are understood well and appropriately managed.
and identifying actions to address the wildlife-related risk perceptions which can influence killing behavior.
Environmental groups also say that willow plantations are also attractive to a variety of wildlife making a positive impact on local biodiversity.
To prevent it from turning beloved nature preserves into shrub monocultures people must remove it from their yards
which climate change has accelerated explains Stan Temple a co-author of the study and an emeritus UW-Madison professor of wildlife ecology.
what they observed in nature Temple avers. Importantly the results give scientists a peek into the subtleties of ecological change in response to climate change.
A second data set of flowering times for 23 species in southern Wisconsin was compiled by Leopold a renowned wildlife ecologist at the University of Wisconsin and author of A Sand County Almanac.
which individuals often kept meticulous daily journals recording the things they observed in nature notes Temple.
In the current issue of Nature a team of researchers led by Michigan State university shows that marginal lands represent a huge untapped resource to grow mixed species cellulosic biomass plants grown specifically for fuel production
which many species depend time is running out for conservationists aiming to save wildlife such as tigers and leopards.
The other authors are Thomas Wood in the Department of Environmental science and Policy at George Mason University and H. S. Panwar former director of Project Tiger India and Wildlife Institute
Nearly 1, 000 wild yaks in remote Tibetan Plateaua team of American and Chinese conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and University of Montana recently counted nearly 1000 wild yaks from a remote
The team counted 990 yaks in a rugged area called Hoh Xil--a national nature reserve nearly the size of West virginia but devoid of people.
and regional projects in order to develop a sound basis for wildlife and environmental conservation in this region.
While polar bears represent a sad disclaimer for a warming Arctic the recent count of almost 1000 wild yaks offers hope for the persistence of free-roaming large animals at the virtual limits of high-altitude wildlife.
and to unravel more about human-wildlife conflict in this fragile and little-known part of the world.
Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve and Qinghai Provincial Forestry Bureau of China provided invaluable support to make it happen.
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. In addition the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of illness dropped from more than 18000 in 1993 to just 459 in 2010 (3). The nature of public health interventions often means that evaluating their impact is complex as they are implemented often simultaneously.
when the outcome is not desirable due to the entertaining and exciting nature of suspense Bee said pointing to her last study which found that winning
Kennedy says that Landtrendr works because of the unique nature of Landsat data. The data embedded in images are a scientific record of Earth's surface that goes back 40 years.
In addition with these measures agriculture can make a very important positive contribution to the protection of nature
The latest study was published online January 13 in Nature Genetics. The diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) preferentially feeds on economically important food crops such as rapeseed cauliflower and cabbage.
According to Dr à degaard the most important argument is that the human race is entirely dependent on diversity in nature.
Frode à degaard is Senior Scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA. Story Source:
Jonathan Pritchard Phd professor in the department of human genetics studies the nature of these human genetic variations by combining methods from evolutionary biology and statistics.
Dasgupta is lead author of the paper to be published this week in Nature. The mantle is the planet's middle layer a buffer of rock between the crust--the top 5 miles or so--and the core.
Nature's ability to create iridescent flowers has been recreated by mathematicians at The University of Nottingham.
We used this to demonstrate that mechanical buckling of the outermost waxy cuticle layer can create the ridge patterns observed in nature on petals and leaves.
#Mixed forests more productive than monoculturesforestry and nature conservation can benefit from promoting a diversity of tree species new study finds.
By examining the role played by the occurrence of diverse tree species for six different ecosystem services (tree growth carbon storage berry production food for wildlife occurrence of dead wood
For example high tree growth appears to be negatively related to the production of both berries and food for wildlife and to the occurrence of dead wood.
On the other hand food for wildlife was associated positively with both berry production and biological diversity in ground vegetation.
The new study which is published in the scientific journal Nature Communications runs partly counter to conventional thinking in forestry in Sweden.
and nature conservation stand to gain by promoting a greater variety of tree types thereby providing more diverse ecosystem services says Jan Bengtsson from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Willow thickets also use tremendous amounts of water leaving less available for wildlife and people.
and availability conserve wildlife and continue enjoying recreational activities in the river Fauth said. The study may also aid other countries fighting the Carolina willow including Australia
and the climate shows that without new climate policies expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term according to a study appearing today in Nature.
#Genetic history of tomatoes revealed by new sequencingthis week an international team of researchers led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing is publishing in the journal Nature Genetics a brief genomic history
and in turn endanger the bay wildlife that relies on it. Picking up where Boyer and Zedler left off SDSU biologist Jeremy Long is currently further exploring the dimensions of this relationship.
Urban naturesweetwater Marsh toward the southern end of San diego bay is a study in the dualism of an urban nature preserve.
That's important information for ecologists and wildlife officials who manage the marsh as well as for future efforts to build humanmade salt marshes.
and C3 photosynthesis in developing leaves of maize and rice on October 12 2014 in Nature Biotechnology also made public a mathematical model enabling access to datasets comparing C4 photosynthesis traits
Very easily says Alex Greenwood from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research.
%The two findings have been published simultaneously today in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. For quantum computing to become a reality we need to operate the bits with very low error rates says Scientia Professor Andrew Dzurak who is Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW where the devices were made.
& Communication Technology were first in the world to demonstrate single-atom spin qubits in silicon reported in Nature in 2012 and 2013.
Plant diversity is good for wildlife diversity says Blank. Our study suggests diverse bioenergy crop fields could benefit birds more so than less diverse fields.
As scientists of the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) write in the scientific journal Nature Communications the effect of the degradation has been underestimated in fragmented forest areas
Research published today in Nature Climate Change reveals how carbon efficiency has improved in nearly all Chinese provinces.
The results are published in an article in the scientific journal Nature Genetics. It's momentous says one of the scientists behind the international effort associate professor Bernt Guldbrandtsen from the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Department of Molecular biology and Genetics Aarhus University.
The article in Nature Genetics describes data from 232 bulls and two cows of the breeds Angus Holstein Jersey and Fleckvieh.
#Blades of grass inspire advance in organic solar cellsusing a biomimicking analog of one of nature's most efficient light-harvesting structures blades of grass an international research team led by Alejandro Briseno of the University
and Hawaii to the coast of the Arctic ocean north of Alaska said Swain who coined the term ridiculously resilient ridge last fall to highlight the unusually persistent nature of the offshore blocking ridge.
Konza is an 8600-acre tallgrass prairie ecological research site jointly owned by the university and The Nature Conservancy.
and raised by their parents at the U s. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research center in Laurel Maryland were released on the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service's Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin.
The USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research center also raises chicks for release into a newly established nonmigratory flock in the wetlands of Southwest Louisiana.
or threatened bird species to the area said Doug Staller Necedah National Wildlife Refuge manager.
A new paper in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes that climate warming does not accelerate soil organic carbon decomposition or affect soil carbon storage despite increases in ecosystem productivity.
The study is available online in advance of print in Nature Communications. When a graphene lattice or sheet is formed its polycrystalline structure has random boundaries between the single-crystal grains.
The irregular nature of the grain boundary produces hundreds of electron-transport gaps with different sensitivities.
In this research published in Nature Communications the group demonstrates using the model legume Lotus japonicus that the downward signaling is performed actually by a cytokinin--though the exact molecule remains to be identified
and expensive endeavor that sometimes fails because of the subtle and intricate nature of ecosystems Bertness noted.
Their findings were published recently in Nature Communications. Three decades ago forest dieback was a hot topic with the very survival of large forest ecosystems seemingly in doubt.
or under scattered debris but also in greenhouses and out in the open nature. They are brought in with imported vegetables garden supplies or tiles.
Signals can't get through anything that's metallic in nature but these layers are so thin they won't have any trouble penetrating.
and is housed primarily at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. When you hold one of those leaves that is so exquisitely preserved in your hand knowing it's 66 million years old it's a humbling feeling said Blonder.
Both of these studies have shown that modern agriculture can still learn from nature and secure a successful harvest
In 2006 British researchers writing in the journal Nature said they identified the gene. In this paper said Gill we show that their gene is not the Ph1.
what has taken long place in nature only faster. Incorporating the gene transfer into the overall breeding process researchers can develop a new variety in five years said Gill.
Recipe for conservation insightthe first big revelation in conservation sciences was that studying the people on the scene as well as nature conservation was crucial.
and ways of scrutinizing wildlife and their habitat can be found in unlikely places. They compare the Wolong Nature Reserve in southwestern China home to about 150 wild endangered giant pandas and the Chitwan National park in Nepal
which shelters 125 wild endangered tigers. People and wildlife are coupled tightly human and natural systems said Jianguo Jack Liu Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability at MSU.
Over many years interdisciplinary studies on pandas tigers and the people who live amongst them are revealing some universal truths about conservation around the globe.
Wildlife researchers and conservation practitioners in Nepal can keep a framework of coupled human and natural systems built for use in China in their back pocket as a useful starting point.
For people interested in wildlife research and conservation there's an increasing awareness of the need to go beyond biology and ecology to incorporate insights from various other disciplines like social psychology and economics.
not only directly affect wildlife but also affect people because that in turn can have a significant effect on the wildlife.
and migration can loom large in many flagship nature reserves as do issues of how policy is executed
and applying wildlife conservation policy. Much of things one learns on one site trickles to other sites Carter said.
A multidisciplinary research project organised by University of Helsinki researchers has studied the role that the decrease in water levels has played in the interaction between nature and humans.
#Diversified farming practices might preserve evolutionary diversity of wildlifeas humans transform the planet to meet our needs all sorts of wildlife continue to be pushed aside including many species that play key roles in Earth's life-support systems.
And what can we do to harmonize farming with nature? Calculating evolutionary historythe findings arise from a 12-year research project conducted by Stanford scientists at the intersections of farms and jungles in Costa rica.
The researchers have developed an extraordinarily detailed data set to show human impacts on phylogenetic diversity a measure of the evolutionary history embodied in wildlife--in this case birds.
and whenever possible to make agricultural systems as wildlife friendly as possible. Even relatively modest increases in vegetation on farms can support diverse lineages of birds.
which people and threatened wildlife are adapted poorly. The study also assessed the potential for less commonly implemented strategies including gene therapies to treat human disease the breeding of climate change proof crop varieties such as flood tolerant rice
It is clear that we need to strengthen evolutionary biology linkages across nature conservation food production
In Indias human dominated landscapes, top prey for leopards is dogsa new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society reveals that in India's human dominated agricultural landscapes where leopards prowl at night
of nature reserves in agricultural landscapes. While this is good news for conservation and a tribute to the social tolerance of Indian people it also poses major challenges of managing conflict that occasionally breaks out.
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