An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Illegality in Forest Conversion for Agriculture 90%of the deforestation in Brazil from 2000 to 2012 was illegal primarily due to the failure to conserve a percentage of natural forests in large-scale cattle
and stories about his research subjects nature's ultimate bioterrorists. In the 1990's Dutch biologists put Limburger cheese in a wind tunnel with malaria mosquitoes and were surprised to find that females were drawn to the smell he said.
The study which focused on laboratory rats was published today in the online peer reviewed journal Nature Communications.
since 1968--a direct result of the establishment of 160 national coastal wildlife refuges and nearly 600000 acres of national seashore in 10 states. â#ecause the'state of the birds'mirrors
the state of their habitats our national wildlife refuges national parks national seashores and other public lands are critical safe havens for many of these species--especially in the face of climate change--one of the biggest
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service National park service Bureau of Land Management and other Interior agencies practice science-based landscape-scale conservation of these lands and their wildlife in partnership with scientists
and other wildlife as well as promoting more outdoor recreation opportunities and boosting related sectors of the economy.
of which are listed as federally endangered by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service. The report's authors have deemed Hawaii the bird extinction capital of the world--no place has had more extinctions since human settlement.
Addressing the conservation needs of these birds will result in healthier more productive land and water for other wildlife as well as for people.
because more land can be spared for nature if the same amount of crops can be produced using less land.
Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change Professor Nadine Unger of the Yale School of Forestry
European forests are vital reservoirs for wildlife for biodiversity and for our own enjoyment and well-being says Khabarov We need to find ways to protect them.
while resulting in less erosion better soil and water quality and more wildlife. During the dry summer of 2012 he pointed out the grass farm didn't show drought.
Why caffeine is so important in nature is another question. Scientists theorize that the chemical may help plants repel insects or stunt competitors'growth.
Their findings published in The british journal Nature Communications may one day contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions and cleaner skies.
and waterfowl enthusiasts as prime wildlife habitat researchers believe that the underwater grass beds at the shallow Susquehanna Flats began to decline in the 1960s
A genomic study published in the Nature Communications journal has challenged just this assumption. Much older eventsthis work conducted in Central africa reveals a very different scenario:
A new study published today in Nature Climate Change suggests that --if current trends continue--food production alone will reach if not exceed the global targets for total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2050.
Falling gliding and flyingsuch activity has never been observed regularly in nature however and Dudley favors the scenario that flight developed in tree-dwelling animals falling
This new tetracycline is not plentiful in nature so the only way we can make it available to study by biologists for its potential in medicine is to synthesize it in the laboratory.
The authors of the new study recently published in the journal Nature write that by combining these layers they have identified areas where new roads have most potential benefit areas where road building should be avoided
because it has vital wildlife habitats but a very rapidly growing human population that will need more food and more roads.
and international funding agencies to help balance development and nature conservation said Professor Laurance. So much road expansion today is unplanned
But why would nature develop such a complicated mechanism to entrap a bacterial colony? Anã asks.
The findings which appear Aug 28 in the journal Nature could make it easier to feed the world's growing population in the face of climate change.
Wildlife instead of cattlescientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) can give the all-clear:
in a recent study they showed that cheetahs primarily prefer wildlife on their menu. The cheetah is a vulnerable species that only exists on Namibia's commercial farmland in large populations.
Andrew Koh added Based on the nature of the room it was anticipated from the beginning that residue samples extracted
These results published in Nature Climate Change in september 2014 underline the importance of microbial diversity to the functioning of soils
But it turns out that in nature very few plants have evolved to maximize their growth rates.
A recent study published online August 24 2014 in Nature Genetics offers a more in depth population-based approach to identifying such mechanisms for adaptation
#Evolutionary history of honeybees revealed by genomicsin a study published in Nature Genetics researchers from Uppsala University present the first global analysis of genome variation in honeybees.
Scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) investigated the effect of antimicrobial peptides in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) and the Institute for Reproduction of Farm animals
which is the main building component of plants and also the most abundant polymer in nature.
The intensive population study was conducted in a project founded by George Wittemyer of Colorado State university with Save the Elephants and in association with the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Wittemyer is lead author of the new report and a professor in the Department of Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology at CSU's Warner College of Natural resources.
In the current edition of Nature Communications scientists describe a new signaling mode for the brassinosteroid class of hormones.
and Trends of Wetlands in the Coastal Watersheds of the Conterminous United states 2004 to 2009 an interagency supported analysis published by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA.
Representing organizations such as the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society the Zoological Society of London the Geos Institute
Co-author James Watson of the Wildlife Conservation Society says: Primary forests are a matter of significant conservation concern.
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Researchers in the Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory necropsied hundreds of birds throughout a 19-million-acre area of land
It was published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases and provides evidence of how the parasitic outbreak began.
'Other researchers include a key collaborator Alan Fedynich an associate professor and research scientist at Texas A&m University-Kingsville a postdoctoral research associate and three doctoral students in the Wildlife
and other wildlife to cross them safely. Two years ago the New jersey Air National guard agreed to participate in a pilot study to test the feasibility of using culverts to guide snakes under roads as part of a larger study of northern pine snakes at Warren Grove Gunnery Range.
The standoff between grouse managers and hen harrier conservationists is one of the UK's most bitter and contentious wildlife conflicts.
and testing the effectiveness of various solutions ecology can help resolve wildlife conflicts --which can have dramatic impacts on people's lives and livelihoods--worldwide.
#Ravens rule Idahos artificial roostsa new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) U s. Geological Survey (USGS) and Idaho State university (ISU) explored how habitat alterations
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Co-authors include Aviva Glaser from the National Wildlife Federation Doria Gordon from the Nature Conservancy and Deah Lieurance and Luke Flory from the University of Florida.
to save elephants all ivory markets must close and all ivory stockpiles must be destroyed according to a new peer-reviewed paper by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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This is good news for the wildlife and people of the Arctic who survive by hunting caribou
and other toxic chemicals such as PCBS found in wildlife and in Inuit and other aboriginal and non-aboriginal Northerners dependent on hunting Morris said.
A new international study published this week in Nature Climate Change shows that damage from wind bark beetles
The findings published online today in the journal Human ecology suggest that Australia might want to encourage small-scale burning to bolster wildlife populations in certain areas Codding says.
'But they are well aware their fires benefit kangaroos and other wildlife. In fact they see humans as part of a larger ecosystem that has spiritual components--the dreamtime place of creation where ancestors roamed.
By burning when many animals are active fires in the late spring can devastate wildlife.
and winter burns as wildlife is often hibernating underground or have not yet built nests Craine said.
The wispy delicate nature of butterflies and moths is part of their charm but their soft-bodied larval stages have posed a problem for scientists studying them in the fossil record.
Caitlin Jacobs a University of Florida master's student in wildlife ecology and conservation conducted the study in
and Wildlife Service the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Defenders of Wildlife and supported by JB Ranch
What an important find said Maggie Sporck State Botanist for Hawaii's Division of Forestry and Wildlife.
Organophosphates pose tremendous danger to people and wildlife and sadly it's not unusual for humans to come into contact with these compounds
The paper The genome sequence of African rice (Oryza glaberrima) and evidence for independent domestication was published online in Nature Genetics on Sunday.
Carney is also a co-author on the Nature Genetics paper and her book served as one of the inspirations behind sequencing the African rice genome.
From 1998 to 2005 Wing led the U s. effort to help sequence the genome of Asian rice which is the only other domesticated rice species. Those results were published in the journal Nature in 2005
The work published July 27 in the journal Nature Genetics was lead by Bjã rn Usadel and colleagues at Aachen University in Germany.
Their work is described this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. Heald explains that while it's known that both higher temperatures
Frank Lake an ecologist with the U s. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Station will lead a field trip to the Stone Lake National Wildlife Refuge during the Ecological Society of America's 99th Annual
By aligning tribal values with public values you can get a win-win reduce fire along wildlife-urban interfaces
They report on their research in the most recent edition of the science journal Nature Genetics.
Their work is published in Nature Climate Change. The team revealed that higher temperatures increased the amount of leaf litter falling onto the soil as well as other underground sources of carbon such as roots.
and is an integral component of the native New england wildlife. Maintaining biodiversity gives resilience to our landscape
The majority of research on New england cottontails has come out of UNH much of it under the leadership of John Litvaitis professor of wildlife ecology who has studied the New england cottontail for three decades.
The researchers hope that an improved understanding of how the cottontail moves through the landscape will assist wildlife and land managers in species recovery efforts.
Nowak organized the survey and rescue mission to Oak Creek last month alongside the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service and U s. Forest Service.
In the latest issue of the science journal Nature Communications researchers from Wageningen University explain that a number of important characteristics of European pigs have Asian origins.
In Nature Communications he and his colleagues explain that the finding has its origin in the UK in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Hence one of the challenges in this field is the ability to create microdevices out of the Mos2 film comprising components with different thickness or chemical nature.
In a 2012 study published in the journal Nature Sheffield and Wood showed that diminished wind speeds have helped to offset the effects of rising temperatures that would
Since these pesticides replaced some legacy contaminants that do biomagnify in similar food chains this is good news for the wildlife
and wildlife populations foul drinking water and make recreational areas unsafe. Researchers from North carolina State university are looking to rain gardens as one way to remediate the water quality concerns caused by urban stormwater.
and Wildlife Acoustics Inc. The European nightjar for example is only active at night and is camouflaged very well making it difficult to detect using traditional survey methods.
Bioacoustics is the science of recording of wildlife sounds and processing that data to provide information on species numbers movement or behaviour.
#Large twin study suggests that language delay due more to nature than nurturea study of 473 sets of twins followed
The model which requires intense computer calculations is described inâ Nature Communications. If our goal is to preserve the tree of life
Due to their very generic nature techniques used in this study can also be applied to other areas with similar eco-hydrologic issues to identify regions that warrant future management actions.
This study published online in Nature Communications provides an effective strategy to unveil novel genomic information for crop improvement.
and other wildlife Wich and colleagues write. There is also a need for research to support land use decisions to reconcile economic development great ape conservation and the avoidance of carbon emissions.
These findings are published in the journal Nature Communications on 10 july 2014. Faced with the worrying phenomenon of bee decline researchers engineers farmers and beekeepers have been working together to try
This technique allows us to go beyond its seasonal nature and preserve all the properties of the product so we can consume the fruit alone
We can't put nature in a glass dome and think it's going to regulate itself he said.
and could serve as a good example for nature preserves with overabundant deer in other states.
The results are published in the scientific journal Nature. How the cosmic dust is formed has long been a mystery to astronomers.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of endangered and threatened species categorizes the status of newly identified S. cordicitum as data deficient
Within Canada the only other fossil localities yielding mammals of similar age are from the Arctic so these fossils from British columbia help fill a significant geographic gap said Dr. Natalia Rybczynski of the Canadian Museum of Nature
Although it has been known for over 100 years that vertebrates apart from mammals detect light deep inside their brains the true nature of the key photoreceptor has remained to be a mystery up until now.
While living in a space habitat is basically residing in a mechanized environment Hava says humans by their makeup still need to be around nature.
In a paper published in this weekâ##s early online edition of Nature they report the discovery of a new genetic pathway in plants made up of four genes from three different gene families that control the density
were described in an article published in the online version of the journal Nature Climate Change.
or resting in Zambia's Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust sanctuary. On subsequent visits van Leeuwen saw that other chimpanzees in her group had started to do the same.
#First national model for bovine TB calls for more focus on cattlein a study published in Nature this week a team of researchers based at the University of Warwick has produced the first national model to investigate the bovine TB spread.
The results derived from the model in the Nature paper entitled A dynamic model of bovine tuberculosis spread
and control in Great britain demonstrated that the majority of herd outbreaks are caused by multiple transmissions routes--including failed cattle infection tests cattle movement and reinfection from environmental reservoirs (infected pastures and wildlife).
Published in the journal Nature today the identification of boron tolerance genes in wheat DNA is expected to help plant breeders more rapidly advance new varieties for increased wheat yields to help feed the growing world population.
whose captain discovered it in 1802 Palmyra contains a 12-square-kilometer national wildlife refuge part of the larger Pacific Remote Islands Marine National monument established in 2009.
Manta rays are classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and are present at this site in surprisingly large numbers.
That destruction is linked to loss of habitat for wildlife soil erosion and even accelerated climate change.
or planting new trees so as to make the areas more wildlife-friendly and biodiversity-rich â#but each comes at a cost Putz said.
or low water-use efficiency trees biodiversity will diminish wildlife could suffer and soil erosion could render streams unusable by local villagers. â#oewhen you save a forest from deforestation itâ##s great
of grazers in the region according to the latest report by the Global Coral reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the United nations Environment Programme (UNEP.
and respond to the Caribbean coral reef crisis through joint actions including protecting parrotfish under the Protocol on specially protected areas and wildlife of the Cartagena Convention.
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As early as 1968 the Malaysian federal government recommended establishing a wildlife reserve in Belum-Temengor to protect its populations of Asian elephants Malaysian tigers Sumatran rhinoceroses and other large mammals against poaching and logging.
or destroys wildlife habitat. Oil palm plantations also have been associated with dangerous and abusive conditions for laborers.
As the scientists reveal in their study published in Nature Climate Change stored carbohydrates play a key role in the resilience of the individual plant. 1400 saplings of ten species monitoredwhile stored starch
The results has been published in Nature Communications. The study shows that even organic farms have to actively support biodiversity by for example conserving different habitats on their holdings.
A new News and Views paper in Nature Climate Change co-authored by Woods Hole Research center scientists Marcia Macedo
Longer-term invasion intensifies forest destructionclimate has an impact on the geometrid moth system in the north--we see clear indications that the system is changing says Senior Research Scientist Jane U. Jepsen of the Norwegian Institute for Nature
While it is known that plants have evolved large families of GTS the chemical nature of these enzymes is such that the specific functions of most GTS remain largely unknown.
Hill and Egan also worked with Glenn E. Stauffer a postdoctoral scholar in forest resources and Duane R. Diefenbach adjunct professor of wildlife ecology both of Penn State.
#Protecting and connecting the Flathead National Forest in Montanaa new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) calls for completing the legacy of Wilderness lands on the Flathead National Forest in Montana.
From the 1930's to the present generations of citizens and government leaders have worked to protect this special area through designations of wilderness wild and scenic rivers and protection of critical wildlife habitat.
Wildlife and Wild Lands on the Flathead National Forest Montana WCS Senior Scientist Dr. John Weaver notes that these protections may not be enough in the face of looming challenges such as climate change.
and wildlife species that have been vanquished in much of their range further south. His analysis shows that 90 percent of the Flathead has a very high
These spectacular landscapes provide some of the best remaining strongholds for vulnerable fish and wildlife and headwater sources of clean water.
These roadless refugia offer a rare opportunity to complete the legacy of protecting wildlife and wildlands on this crown jewel of the National Forest system for people today and generations yet to come.
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raising livestockwhile African wildlife often run afoul of ranchers and pastoralists securing food and water resources for their animals the interests of fauna and farmer might finally be unified by the Sodom apple a toxic invasive plant that has overrun vast swaths of East African savanna and pastureland.
The Holy grail in ecology is these win-win situations where we can preserve wildlife in a way that is beneficial to human livelihoods Pringle said.
The latest research was published online in Nature Genetics. The human whipworm (Trichuris) infects around 1 billion people worldwide
dynasty-toppling floodsfor thousands of years Mother Nature has taken the blame for tremendous human suffering caused by massive flooding along the Yellow River long known in China as the River of Sorrow and Scourge of the Sons of Han.
In some ways these findings offer a new benchmark for the beginning of the Anthropocene the epoch in which humans became the most dominant global force in nature.
When in doubt bet on Mother Nature because physics will win every time. Human-caused environmental change is nothing new Kidder said.
Since 2006 White-Nose Syndrome has killed an estimated 7 million bats in North america the steepest wildlife decline in the past century.
Through crop raiding a form of human-wildlife conflict hundreds of thousands of marginalized farmers are losing edible crops to damage from these troublesome animals each year.
and appropriate scientific know-how to solve these human-wildlife conflicts is imperative to implementing lasting and robust conflict mitigation.
and the Philippines according to a new study published today in the journal Nature Communications. Researchers from the Universitã Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Oxford university and the Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention analyzed new data
#In wild yak society, moms are the real climbersa new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society says that in wild yak societies it's the mothers that are the real climbers.
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;
Zhao Xin Lu and Buqiong Buzhou of Kekexili National Nature Reserve Management Bureau; and George Schaller of WCS and Panthera.
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When Ruby died suddenly in April from apparently ingesting rat poison it was a local tragedy as well as a national warning about the serious dangers these chemicals pose to wildlife.
Tufts Wildlife Clinic at Cummings School of veterinary medicine received results of a toxicology screen last week that showed that Ruby tested positive for three different types of second-generation anticoagulant
Veterinarians at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic performed Ruby's necropsy and detected signs of lethal rodenticide poisoning
and trace amounts of two other poisons said Dr. Maureen Murray a wildlife veterinarian and faculty member at Cummings School.
Sadly wildlife is overlooked often in the age-old battle of human versus rodent. Susan Moses a Cambridge resident who had watched Buzz
She recently asked the Tufts Wildlife Clinic to establish the Ruby Memorial Research Fund. The fund's initial goal is to raise $10000 for research to monitor the health effects of rodenticides on birds of prey.
The paper showed anticoagulant rodenticide residues in 86 percent of 161 birds that were tested over five years at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic.
While this factor doesn't necessarily make second-generation poisons more lethal for rodents than first generation products it has devastating consequences for wildlife.
In light of high numbers of children accidentally exposed to second-generation rat poisons as well as the risk to wildlife the EPA tightened the safety standards for consumer use of household rat
So it's very important to understand the larger ramifications of the products used in the home because of their potential harm to children pets and wildlife.
There's a debate among Australians he said about the potential role of dingoes in suppressing introduced pests that have decimated already wildlife there.
To reduce those damages the Wildlife Service of the U s. Department of agriculture has a program to reduce coyote numbers an effort that has drawn criticism from conservation groups.
Reported in the June 12 2014 edition of the journal Nature the international effort to sequence
Plants can transfer their entire genetic material to a partner in an asexual manneroccasionally two different plant species interbreed with each other in nature.
But sometimes nature uses a trick. Instead of passing on only half of each parent's genetic material both plants transmit the complete information to the next generation.
It is known generally from nature that plants are able to grow together at their contact zones.
Such a fitness advantage is known also from allopolyploid plants in nature and from the superior growth properties of allopolyploid crops.
and lead author of the new study published today in the journal Nature Communications. While plankton raised on algal carbon is more nutritious organic carbon from trees washed into lakes is a hugely important food source for freshwater fish bolstering their diet to ensure good size
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