Nature is capitalit is said often that nature is capital but this has largely been a metaphor thus far;
Conferred by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation the prize recognizes European scientists for innovative and exemplary research approaches in the areas of nature conservation agriculture and forestry and related sciences.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service manages the restored areas while the undisturbed area at Sioux Prairie is managed by the Nature Conservancy Oak Lake by SDSU and Spirit Mound by the S d. Game fish and Parks Department.
Originally from Des moines Iowa she began working with ants as an undergraduate at Iowa State university focusing on how burning
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.
and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture U s. Department of agriculture and the work was published online June 8 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics Unlocking the genetic make-up of the common bean is a tremendous achievement that will lead to future
In a study published in the June 2014 edition of Nature Biotechnology an international consortium of researchers from the United states France Italy Spain
and every fall those same leaves provide one of nature's great color displays of vivid yellow orange and red.
The study is described in a June 1 paper published in Nature Climate Change. What we find in this paper is an increase in the growing season of forests in the eastern U s. due to recent climate change Keenan said.
The group's findings appear in this week's edition of the journal Nature Climate Change.
#New EU reforms fail European wildlife, experts arguedespite political proclamation of increased environmental focus experts argue that the European union's recent agricultural reforms are far too weak to have any positive impact on the continent's shrinking farmland biodiversity
so they will be of no benefit to European wildlife and biodiversity will continue to decline across the continent.
and its common market continues to drive agricultural intensification across Europe at the expense of wildlife and natural habitats..
This continues to take a heavy toll on wildlife with dramatic declines in everything from the farmland bird index to'permanent'grassland that in newer member states has shrunk over 11%in just the last decade.
The EU Biodiversity target implicitly assumes that the biodiversity-related measures under the CAP are effective at protecting wildlife.
thriving wildlife beautiful landscapes clean water fertile soils land that contributes to a stable climate
Results from the research appear today in the journal Nature Communications. Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel.
& Environmental Studies (F&es) and lead author of the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
while still providing forest cover and wildlife habitat worked equally as well as more intensive treatments in allowing for the protection of homes during the 2011 Wallow Fire a study published in the journal Forest Ecology
but of maintaining pockets of dense forest cover and associated wildlife habitat. To characterize fire severity the researchers established linear transects through each of these three study areas a year after the Wallow Fire.
This would suggest that the greater a fuel treatment's emphasis on wildlife habitat and aesthetic considerations the larger the size of treatment area needed to realize a reduction in fire severity.
Our findings suggest that fuel treatments that promote wildlife habitat and aesthetics are still potentially successful in sufficiently reducing fire severity to provide opportunities to protect residences in the WUI during a fire said Kennedy.
and their livestock into ever-close proximity to natural areas that constitute the habitat of wildlife
and water wildlife and opportunities for recreation to name a few. In two papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences UC Santa barbara's Andrew Plantinga addresses how to strike a balance between providing for humanity's growing needs
Communication between species is widespread in nature but almost always involves only two or three species. Here we show for the first time that the same signal connects four different species each at a different level in the food chain.
The study has been published in the journal Nature Communications. 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.
or patterns in nature that are repetitive serve a function and are so important they are retained often through millions of years
and harm fish and wildlife. This according to a first-of-its-kind study released today by scientists at Syracuse University
which happened to be the only National Nature Reserve in the area. More broadly High Level agri-environment schemes were the best places for bees.
Their research is detailed in the latest issue of the journal Nature Climate Change. By adaptation we mean a range of options based on existing technologies such as switching varieties of a crop installing irrigation
and gas wells says Margaret Brittingham professor of wildlife resources who conducted a study of bird communities in the Allegheny National Forest.
Thomas completed her master's degree in wildlife and fisheries science and is currently an instructor in the wildlife technology program at Penn State Dubois.
In a recently published issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management the researchers documented the presence
or absence of different songbird species in a range of landscapes including undisturbed forest low-density oil and gas development and high-density development.
and also whether nature might already be exploiting it. The method could prove useful in controlling how particles move through microfluidic devices
The 24/7 nature of data collection is essential says Tim Kratz director of Trout Lake and a GLEON founder.
and Wildlife Ecology says Williams. We are building on 20 years of David's work for Wisconsin
The occurrence of such patterning in nature is rather unusual says Stephan Getzin. There must be particularly strong regulating forces at work.
while the red panda is considered a vulnerable species according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The results have been published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases. Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) share their habitat with a number of other wild animals as well as with farm animals.
The Pathological Laboratory at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology specializes in such cases. Severe pneumonia as cause of deathnineteen dead chamois from the region of Amstetten Lilienfeld and Salzburg in north-central Austria were investigated.
This puts farm animals as well as wildlife population at risk for interspecies transmission of infections. Close cooperation with hunters and foresters is essential to ensure that any outbreaks are detected as soon as possible.
and plants--and on one of the most important connections that humans have with nature.
Until this study published in Nature Climate Change Antarctic climate observations were available only from the middle of last century.
The research by hydrogeologists at The University of Texas at Austin which appears in the May 11 edition of the journal Nature Geoscience shows for the first time that virtually every drop of water coursing through 311000 miles (500000 kilometers) of waterways
With growing global datasets collected using standardised methods further comparisons will be possible across the tropics to help elucidate the nature and causes of variation in plant biomass growth.
At the same time farmers need better pesticides to grow food while pesticide manufacturers aim to design effective pesticides without unacceptable side effects based on our understanding of pesticide effects in nature.
At the same time farmers need better pesticides to grow food while pesticide manufacturers aim to design effective pesticides without unacceptable side effects based on our understanding of pesticide effects in nature.
The new findings are reported in the journal Nature. Eight institutions from Australia Israel Japan and the United states contributed to the analysis. The researchers looked at multiple varieties of wheat rice field peas soybeans maize
and can help reduce the harm to wildlife natural assets and human well-being that climate disruption might cause.
and draw a host of butterflies birds and other wildlife that depend on these plants for survival.
Teaching youth about trees results in educated adults with sensitivities to trees and nature. The researchers explored the feasibility of introducing structural defect recognition as a potential curriculum enhancement for sixth grade students
so scientists like Bekker turn to Mother Nature's own record-keeping to see the bigger picture.
De la Rosa's job as director of La Selva Biological Station brings him an unusual number of serendipitous encounters with wildlife.
The research which has been published in the international journal Nature Chemical Biology also involved scientists from the University Jaume I in Spain and Utrecht University in The netherlands.
We just know there are multiple venues where wildlife can acquire resistant strains and move them around in the environment.
Findings published today in the journal Nature shows how a single bacterial strain (Methylocella silvestris) found in soil
'Trace-gas metabolic versatility of the facultative methanotroph Methylocella silvestris'by Andrew Crombie and Colin Murrell is published in the journal Nature on Monday April 28 2014.
risks to well-being of nature, people, ways to mitigate exist, experts saythe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has approved the second part of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) titled Climate Change 2014:
The key message of the report is that climate change poses serious risks to the well-being of nature and people all over the world.
To fulfil these criteria ETH researchers used nanotechnology and nature's information storehouse DNA. A piece of artificial genetic material is the heart of the mini-label.
The research published Wednesday in Nature is one of the most comprehensive observational studies to explore the effects of long-term drought on the Congo rainforest using several independent satellite sensors.
Maxwell and colleagues have published results of their study of beetle effects on stream flows in this week's issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.
and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.
#Researchers rethink natural habitat for wildlifeprotecting wildlife while feeding a world population predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050 will require a holistic approach to conservation that considers human-altered landscapes such as farmland
Wildlife and the natural habitat that supports it might be an increasingly scarce commodity in a world where at least three-quarters of the land surface is affected directly by humans
But what if altered agricultural landscapes could play vital roles in nurturing wildlife populations while also feeding an ever-growing human population?
A new study published April 16 in the journal Nature and co-authored by three Stanford scientists finds that a long-accepted theory used to estimate extinction rates predict ecological risk
Nature is not an islandconservationists have assumed long that once natural landscapes are fractured by human development
or agriculture migration corridors for wildlife are broken blocking access to food shelter and breeding grounds. A scholarly theory was developed to estimate the number of species in such fractured landscapes where patches of forest surrounded by farms resemble islands of natural habitat.
The theory drives the default strategy of conserving biodiversity by designating nature reserves. This strategy sees reserves as islands in an inhospitable sea of human-modified habitats
and wildlife Mendenhall said. To test the island theory against a more holistic theory of agricultural
In reality plantations in the countryside typically supported 18 bat species compared to the 23 to 28 supported by tropical forest fragments and nature reserves.
Conservation opportunities for tropical wildlife are linked tightly to adequate management of these human-modified habitats said co-author Christoph Meyer a researcher at the University of Lisbon's Center for Environmental Biology.
A new approach The fate of much of the world's wildlife is playing out in human-altered landscapes that are threatened increasingly by chemical inputs such as herbicides and pesticides.
People are losing many of nature's benefits such as water purification provided by forests and wetlands and pest control provided by birds and bats.
and food production to make agricultural lands more hospitable to wildlife by reducing chemical inputs preserving fragments of forest and other natural habitats and rewarding farmers and ranchers for the benefits that result.
-and long-term factors that will be highly influential regardless of the nature and magnitude of the effects of climate change said lead author Stephen Shifley a research forester with the Northern Research Station.
and the ongoing drought are just a handful of reasons why there are fewer lesser prairie chickens in the wild today according to the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service
K-State Research and Extension wildlife specialist Charlie Lee said the designation of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species has been anticipated for some time.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Serviceâ##s announcement in late March will go into effect May 12.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service reported that last year the range-wide population of the lesser prairie chicken declined to a record low of 17616 birds an almost 50 percent reduction from the 2012 population estimate.
and Wildlife Service has been working with the FSA to ensure implementation of all aspects of CRP has an overall positive impact on habitat for the lesser prairie chicken.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service in conjunction with the FSA has been developing a conferencing document
along with providing assurances and predictability within the conferencing effort with U s. Fish and Wildlife Service on CRP is important for voluntary landownersâ##continued participation or future enrollment in the program.
and Wildlife Service will allow policy to permit action that early. It will be more in line with the end of the nesting season. â#Pushing early land preparation back allows for the lesser prairie chicken to fulfill its nesting and brooding season
and Wildlife Services with input from the FSA will provide more answers on how CRP in Kansas will be affected due to the listing.
and ecosystem services including water quality and wildlife. So this sector has some opportunities to help improve the quality of land resources as well as mitigating climate change.
To determine whether the physical properties of trees influenced nesting site selection scientists measured the physical characteristics of wood from common tree species at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve Uganda.
The Central Valley's protected wetlands (federal wildlife refuges state wildlife areas and private lands)
Dead wood is great habitat for wildlife provides a sheltered environment for young seedlings holds soil
and expanding construction to support nature-based tourism said the researchers including Copenheaver with Kiomars Sefidi formerly a doctoral student in natural resources at the University of Tehran who studied the subject at the university's Kheyrud Experimental Forest.
The study published in the journal Nature Climate Change showed that forests growing in fertile soils with ample nutrients are able to sequester about 30%of the carbon that they take up during photosynthesis. In contrast forests growing in nutrient-poor
which holds that more time in nature restores the ability to concentrate and reduces mental fatigue.
what is surely the most aggressive chemical defence system in nature. When threatened the bombardier beetle releases a caustic spray accompanied by a popping sound.
When you see how elegantly nature solves problems you realise how deadlocked the world of technology often is says Wendelin Jan Stark a professor from the ETH Department of chemistry and Applied Biosciences.
Just as in nature very little mechanical energy is required in the laboratory to release a much greater amount of chemical energy--quite similar to a fuse
Stark describes the successful research method as imitating nature and realising simple ideas with high-tech methods.
and was applied to an updated version of the first global tree of birds published in 2012 by the group in Nature.
#Iconic boreal bird species declining in the Adirondacksa new study from the Wildlife Conservation Society finds that several iconic Adirondack birds are in trouble with declines driven by the size of their wetland habitats
and other wildlife of the boreal to help contribute to the long term protection of this vulnerable habitat.
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Their results are published in the April 9 advanced online edition of the journal Nature. We have discovered the first metal catalyst that can produce appreciable amounts of ethanol from carbon monoxide at room temperature
In the Nature experiment Kanan and Li used a cathode made of oxide-derived copper.
Liberia's status as a biodiversity hotspot and the fact that it is home to some of the last viable and threatened wildlife populations in West Africa has received little media attention in the past.
Here accurate biological datasets on the distribution and abundance of wildlife populations are key for making evidence-based management decisions that balance economic and conservation priorities.
This combination of large-scale habitat destruction and high hunting rates may seriously jeopardize the long-term survival of Liberia's wildlife populations says Dr. Annika Hillers co-author of the article and conservation scientist for The Royal Society
With this study we provide an accurate and comprehensive data-based platform for local wildlife protection authorities policy-makers
what is left of this country's rich wildlife heritage. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
and though we don't fully understand how nature breaks it down and recycles it into the deep Earth we know that it must
The Rice lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Laura Segatori has designed a sophisticated circuit that signals increases in the degradation of proteins by the cell's ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS). The research appears online today in Nature Communications.
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.
and EPOC laboratories (OASU CNRS Universitã Bordeaux 1) and published in the journal Nature changes the order for global carbon footprints.
study showswildlife fences are constructed for a variety of reasons including to prevent the spread of diseases protect wildlife from poachers
and to help manage small populations of threatened species. Human-wildlife conflict is another common reason for building fences:
Wildlife can damage valuable livestock crops or infrastructure some species carry diseases of agricultural concern
or property and human activities degrade wildlife habitat. Separating people and wildlife by fencing can appear to be a mutually beneï cial way to avoid such detrimental effects.
But in a paper in the journal Science published today April 4th 2014 WCS and ZSL scientists review the'pros
When areas of contiguous wildlife habitat are converted into islands the resulting small and isolated populations are prone to extinction
In some parts of the world fencing is part of the culture of wildlife conservation--it's assumed that all wildlife areas have to be fenced.
In addition to their ecosystem-wide impact fences do not always achieve their specific aims Construction of fences to reduce human-wildlife conflict has been successful in some places
and wildlife-sensitive land-use planning--can be used to mitigate conï cts between people and wildlife without the need for fencing.
The desire to separate livestock from wildlife in order to create zones free from diseases such as foot
and standardized approaches to meat preparation can prevent spread of diseases without the need to separate cattle from wildlife by fencing.
The authors conclude that as climate change increases the importance of facilitating wildlife mobility and maintaining landscape connectivity fence removal may become an important form of climate change preparedness
and so fencing of wildlife should be avoided whenever possible. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Wildlife Conservation Society.
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#Researchers design trees that make it easier to produce paperresearchers have engineered genetically trees that will be easier to break down to produce paper
and Wildlife Service (FWS) to protect the sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act and efforts by BLM and FWS to establish voluntary conservation and restoration management plans in lieu of endangered species listing mandates.
and Michigan's State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement to help pay for this. In such cases growers could see their return on investment even quicker.
The two ancestor wild species had been collected in nature conserved in germplasm banks and then used by the IPGI to better understand the peanut genome.
and land cover said the project's leader Leandro Castello assistant professor of fish and wildlife conservation In virginia Tech's College of Natural resources and Environment.
The Danau Girang Field Centre is located in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary a strip of rainforest along Sabah's major river squeezed in by vast oil palm plantations on either side.
and the hidden nature of their webs which are built in palmetto shrubs. Red widows conceal their funnel-shaped retreats in unopened palmetto leaves making them difficult to spot.
The study was initiated in 2003 at the Trillium Trail Nature Reserve in Fox Chapel Pa. by a team of researchers from the University of Miami and University of Pittsburgh.
But when you're accounting for the water footprint of agricultural products it allows you to see the global nature of that water.
because conventional wisdom among wildlife biologists and the indigenous Seri people who long inhabited this coastal desert region was had that bighorn sheep not occupied Tiburã n Island before 1975
and seed dispersal in open habitats was published in the March 4 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United states of america and referenced in the February 27 issue of Nature.
Lead researcher Meagan Schipanski explained that commonly used measurements of ecosystem services can be misleading due to the episodic nature of some services and the time sensitivity of management windows.
The new study published in Nature Communications on March 18 is the first to measure tree deaths caused by natural processes throughout the Amazon forest even in remote areas where no data have been collected at ground level.
Ingrid Parker the Langenheim professor of plant ecology and evolution at UC Santa cruz got involved in the marsh sandwort recovery effort at the request of the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS.
For the field studies Bontrager and coauthor Kelsey Webster another UCSC undergraduate worked closely with coauthor Mark Elvin a U s. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist.
#Researchers take on fighting disastrous consequences of extreme changes in climate before they occurhow can communities dodge future disasters from Mother Nature before she has dealt the blow?
but in a region with the Arctic Grayling a candidate for endangered listing the water shortage would affect wildlife.
The study published today by the journal Nature Climate Change feeds directly into the Working group II report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report
Their study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change on 16 march 2014. The research project has been funded by the Academy of Finland.
Sales of the modified nacho's and popcorn increased by 8%despite the relatively healthier nature of the foods.
#Strange bird, sea turtle hatchlings released on protected Indonesian beachworking on a remote and protected beach in Indonesia conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society
and managed by PALS (Pelestari Alam Liar dan Satwa or Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation). â#oethe joint release of maleos and olive ridleys on the same day is a boost to the conservation of both species in Sulawesiâ#said Noviar Andayani Country Director for WCSÂ##s Indonesia Program
Heidi and Harvey Bookman and the Critically Endangered Animals Conservation Fund of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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and wildlife enthusiasts alike throughout the United states has flown literally the coop â#its numbers have been decreasing alarmingly for decades
Charles Johnson and Dale Rollins) Texas A&mâ##s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries sciences (Dr. Markus Peterson) and two private-industry scientists (Dr. Scot E
According to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department figures the bobwhite quail has declined every year since 1981. At present there appears to be no single or specific reason for the decline.
Nature is not static but interactive and dynamic he said. As we better understand the relationships between broad-scale human changes to crop diversity
and the insects that feed on those crops this knowledge will help us develop better pest-management strategies that are more in tune with nature.
The study authors concluded that there are no major differences between the nature and causes of injuries sustained on artificial turf
Pierson was also a co-author on a recent article published in Nature Communications by his Emory University
These new findings were reported by scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Berlin (IZW.
Dr. Hartwell Welsh Jr. research wildlife biologist at the U s. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) helped conduct a study in Northwestern Calif. that examined how woodland salamander
The solution is one that nature devised: let grazing animals crop the excess growth of fast growing grasses that can out-compete native plants in an over-fertilized world.
and scheduled for online publication March 9 2014 in the journal Nature. More than 50 scientists belonging to the Nutrient Network a team of scientists studying grasslands worldwide co-authored the study.
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