The study was conducted by researchers of the Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Carpathian mountains where this practice is rooted deeply and increasing.
While supplementary feeding of wildlife is becoming increasingly common in conservation management and ecotourism our understanding of the complex effects of providing artificial food to wildlife is limited still commented Selva.
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#Biofuel-to-hydrocarbon conversion technology licensedvertimass LLC a California-based start-up company has licensed an Oak ridge National Laboratory technology that directly converts ethanol into a hydrocarbon blend-stock for use in transportation fuels.
and evolution as viewed through the lens of surveillance methods utilized by scientists from around the world said study lead and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Associate Director of Wildlife Epidemiology Dr. Sarah Olson.
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thus making such motion possible given that minerals such as olivine (the main constituent of the upper mantle) do not exhibit enough defects in their crystal lattice to explain the deformations observed in nature?
The findings which have just been published in Nature go well beyond the scope of the geosciences:
The strategies to make ruminant--cud-chewing--livestock a more sustainable part of the food supply led by academics at the University of Bristol's School of Veterinary Sciences are outlined in a Comment piece in Nature this week.
Besides a recent multidisciplinary study published in Nature Climate Change journal reveals that global warming is also accelerating deforestation of the planet.
The nature and timing of precipitation will change research suggests with some studies showing that climate change will decrease soil moisture later in the growing season.
and precipitation patterns shift said John Shuey a co-author of the study and Director of Conservation Science for the Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
Dung beetles recount the nature of the pastthe biologists behind the new research findings synthesized decades of studies on fossil beetles focusing on beetles associated with the dung of large animals in the past or with woodlands and trees.
Large animals in high numbers were an integral part of nature in prehistoric times. The composition of the beetles in the fossil sites tells us that the proportion
To a large extent it supports the idea that the rewilding-based approach to nature management should be incorporated to a far greater degree in nature policy in Europe-especially in the case of national parks and other large natural areas.
but are not toxic to people wildlife or even most insects. Organic growers have used Bt toxins in sprays for decades
#The nature of color: New formula to calculate hue improves accuracy of color analysisa stroll through the produce aisle in your local grocery store exhibits a plethora of vivid colors.
This is a crucial question for scientists studying the biological importance of color in nature but measuring color is much more challenging than measuring other characteristics like size or weight.
and why new colors evolve in nature. When her research was limited by faulty hue values from previous formulas she needed a new method to overcome this limitation.
and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) demonstrates that it is possible to qualify bison coming from an infected herd as free of brucellosis using quarantine procedures.
and expertise to research the critical issue of brucellosis in wildlife. The authors of the study note that agencies charged with the management of bison agree that capture
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The absence of archaeological sites and the inhospitable nature of open treeless landscape known as tundra steppe mean that archaeologists have not given much credence to the idea there was a population that lived on the Bering land bridge
A paper by Michigan State university panda habitat experts published in this week's Journal for Nature Conservation explores an oft-hidden yet significant conflict in conservation.
and preserve the 1600 remaining endangered wildlife icons living there. For years timber harvesting has been the panda's biggest threat.
Vanessa Hull a doctoral student in MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) has been living off and on for seven years in the Wolong Nature Reserve most recently tracking pandas she's equipped with GPS collars.
Jack Liu (left) and Jindong Zhang talk to a farmer in the Wolong Nature Reserve about the impact livestock can have on panda habitat.
An analysis published Feb 26 in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the wastewater produced during the processing of palm oil is a significant source of heat-trapping methane in the atmosphere.
In 4-ethyloctanal we identified a novel chemical that had never been demonstrated in nature before.
and air quality they report in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The results may help to explain discrepancies between observations
The study is published Feb 27 in Nature. In many forested regions you can go and observe particles apparently form from thin air.
The research recently appeared in the journal Nature Communications A plant factory for moth pheromone production.
Nature has found a way to make multi-hyperuniformity he said. Now you can take the cue from
what nature has found to create a multi-hyperuniform pattern if you intend to. Evolutionarily speaking the researchers'results show that nature found a unique workaround to the problem of cramming all those cones into the compact avian eye Corbo said.
The ordered pattern of cells in most other animals'eyes are thought to be the optimal arrangement
Cellulose is found everywhere in nature in rich quantities for example in the stems of the corn plant.
and scientists are pioneering new methods to assess nature's recovery and guide human intervention.
The epicenter of China's devastating Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 was in the Wolong Nature Reserve a globally important valuable biodiversity hotspot and home to the beloved and endangered giant pandas.
and roads but the earth split open and swallowed sections of the forests and bamboo groves that shelter and feed pandas and other endangered wildlife.
#New york takes lead in state efforts to end ivory tradethe following statement was released today by John Calvelli Wildlife Conservation Society Executive vice president for Public Affairs and Director of the 96 Elephants Campaign:
The Wildlife Conservation Society welcomes the introduction of a bill into the New york state Legislature proposing a sweeping ban on the sale of ivory in New york state Assembly bill A8824.
Just last week Wildlife Conservation Society scientists reported grim news that nearly ten percent of the world's forest elephants were killed in 2012 and again in 2013.
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UK study showsdiseases that are managed common in honeybee colonies are now widespread in the UK's wild bumblebees according to research published in Nature.
In a paper published February 19 2014 in the journal Nature Communications researchers from Rutgers University the Department of energy Joint Genome Institute and several other facilities detailed the complete genome
and the impacts of wildlife on farming and vice versa. â#oemost of these concerns still need to be said addressedâ#Olson. â#oesince that plan was created there have been additional compromises/breaches that need to be repaired.
Their research which was published today in the journal Nature Communications demonstrates that Proconsul and its primate relative Dendropithecus inhabited a widespread dense multistoried closed canopy forest.
Why has chosen nature such radically different forms as the loose-limbed beauty of a flowering tree and the fearful symmetry of a tiger?
The study published in the journal Nature provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the evolutionary relationships of influenza virus across different host species over time.
and SLAC who led the research reported today in Nature Nanotechnology. Experiments showed our pomegranate-inspired anode operates at 97 percent capacity even after 1000 cycles of charging
The findings were published on February 16 in the journal Nature. The researchers found that plant diversity in natural ecosystems creates more stable ecosystems over time because of less synchronized growth of plants.
Fifty years ago we were making the first measurements of the solar wind and understanding the nature of
In a recent issue of Nature the researchers reported on a particular gene sequence that allows Bacteroidetes to carry out this function.
This was mainly due to the online nature of the livestock products survey versus the mailed method of the general food products survey said Marcus Brix another K-State graduate student who worked on the study.
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#New species of Oak hidden away in the greenery of Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuaryan international team of scientists from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical garden (China)
and the Forest Herbarium (BKF--Thailand) discovered a new species of Stone Oak in the Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand.
-and wildlife such as the Blue-banded Kingfisher and Whitehanded Gibbons as well for its rare and beautiful flora like Rafflesia's--known to hold some of the largest flowers on earth.
The wildlife sanctuary covers a region of low-lying forested mountains and is located in the middle of a fascinating transition zone that lies between the northern Indochinese and the southern Sundaland biogeographic regions.
and has not been recorded outside Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary. During our field survey we found only one individual tree located on a gentle sloping section of closed dense forest explains one of the authors Dr. Strijk.
and other flora and fauna present in the Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary. The unique species composition high diversity and relatively intact forest structure underscore the importance of strengthening ongoing and future conservation measures at Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary as a key element of wider
conservation efforts in southern Thailand adds Dr. Strijk. Currently more than 300 species of Stone Oak have been described occurring from eastern India to Japan and the eastern tip of Papua new guinea.
The fieldwork and surveys in Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary by the team of Dutch and Thai botanists are part of ongoing research on the genomics systematics biogeography and evolution of tropical Asian Oaks
The update released at the United for Wildlife symposium today in London was made by adding new data from 2012 and 2013
These new numbers showing the continuing decline of the African forest elephant are the exact reason why there is a sense of urgency at the United for Wildlife trafficking symposium in London this week said Dr. John Robinson WCS Chief
United for Wildlife which is headed by The Duke of Cambridge is determined to work together to turn back these numbers.
Conservationists gathered at the United for Wildlife symposium--International Wildlife Trafficking: Solutions to a Global Crisis are discussing ways to protect wildlife and combat trade.
Said WCS's Dr. Fiona Maisels one of the researchers releasing the new numbers and a co-author of the landmark paper:
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Bovine TB caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium bovis not only infects cattle but other livestock and wildlife.
Likewise their wary nature suggests that climbing leads to improved site surveillance of potential threats and prey.
The results which appear today in BMC Genomics provide new insight into the debate between nature and nurture according to Grozinger.
Everyone agrees that both nature--including genes and physiology--and nurture--including diet environment and social interactions--contribute to the likelihood that an individual will behave in a certain way
Now a new NASA study published today in the journal Nature shows that the appearance of canopy greening is caused not by a biophysical change in Amazon forests
Thus the nature of the association between dairy product intake and type 2 diabetes remains unclear prompting the authors to carry out this new investigation using much more detailed assessment of dairy product consumption than was done in past research.
Because of the nature of colony losses it is very difficult to collect key information on the cause
and resources to adapt to a swiftly growing production system said Dr. Kristine Smith Wildlife Veterinarian and Associate Director of Health and Policy at Ecohealth Alliance.
and forestry while an introduced plant spreading uncontrollably in nature can become a major concern. The reason why plants sometimes function very differently in a new environment is a question that many researchers are currently focusing on.
such as pest controlservices provided by Mother Nature such as pest control from insect-eating bats are affected by market forces like most anything else in the economy a University of Tennessee Knoxville study finds.
and pesticides that replace nature's services such as pollination and natural pest control diminish the importance of protecting ecosystems said LÃ pez-Hoffman
There some wildlife have thrived in extensively managed farmland but are threatened by agricultural intensification. However in developing nations there is often great pressure on the land to provide enough food for local people resulting in the conversion of natural habitat to farmland.
and promote biodiversity in the tropics available online in the journal Nature Climate Change on January 26.
or existing parks These shifts in the conceptualization of urban nature and human roles in it have to some extent created openings for the return of productive practices such as farming horticulture and beekeeping to public green spaces.
Within the next decade we plan to exploit the specialised nature of these effectors to develop proteases that are resistant to their action
The new results span 27 years of data collected in Argentina under the direction of Dee Boersma UW biology professor with the support of the Wildlife Conservation Society the UW the Office of Turismo in Argentina
The researchers reported their work yesterday in Nature Nanotechnology. Water evaporation is the largest power source in nature Sahin said.
Sunlight hits the ocean heats it up and energy has to leave the ocean through evaporation he explained.
and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the deliberate molasses-slow animals in northeast Costa rica.
I was surprised to see all the different birds that are using these agricultural fields--especially during spring migration said Kelly Vanbeek a wildlife biologist at the Wisconsin Department of Natural resources who conducted the study while a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Generally row crops are not good for wildlife Brawn said. They're just not. But this paper shows that in situ agricultural production--depending on how you do it--can have some benefits for wildlife.
The team also found other grassland species that are in decline--Eastern meadowlarks ring-necked pheasants and field sparrows--nesting in no-till fields.
or wildlife in general the ones that did occupy grassland habitat are the ones whose populations have tanked the most Brawn said.
Rather than buying up modest tracts of land for wildlife preservation an approach that is minimally effective he said farmers
if only 3 or 4 percent of farmers adopted this approach it would have a greater effect than all the land that we have in wildlife preserves in Illinois he said.
and they say there's no way there's value for wildlife in those Vanbeek said. But we've proved there is.
These findings have now been published in the journal Nature Communications. Grain formation during growth of kesterite solar cells observed in real-timeas starting material for the formation of the kesterite film serves a carpet of nanorods:
'The study published in Nature looked at seedling plots across 36 sampling stations in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve Belize.
which may prove less disruptive to wildlife than clear-cutting. Semlitsch hopes to help find the balance between the economics of using natural resources
Kellenberg worked with UM Associate professor Mark Hebblewhite from the Wildlife Biology Program and graduate students Joseph Ramler and Carolyn Sime.
The Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks also cooperated on the study which analyzed data from ranches in western Montana including 15 years of records on ranch husbandry satellite-generated climatological data spatial data on wolf pack locations and confirmed depredations on 18
In their analysis they included only conservation lands--current nature reserves and those that South african conservation officials plan to acquire--that contained land suitable for growing one of the two crops either currently or in the future.
The research is published today in the journal Nature. While they are vital to our diet the long chains of natural polymeric carbohydrates that make up dietary fibre are impossible for humans to digest without the aid of our resident bacteria says UBC professor Harry Brumer with UBC
Male honey bees more susceptible than females to widespread intestinal parasitegender differences in nature are common including in humans.
These findings demonstrate the delicate nature of male honey bees which are important to honey bee colony reproduction to a well-distributed parasite.
The research funded primarily by the U s. Department of agriculture Office of International Research Programs is published in the most recent edition of the journal Nature Communications. â#oethis technology allows improvement of fiber quality in upland cotton
In a letter published today in the journal Nature an international research group reports that 97 percent of 403 tropical and temperate species grow more quickly the older they get.
They are planning to establish a large number of wildlife conservation areas and one of the things at the top of their list is the elephants.
and Wildlife Service a government agency that is committed to protecting preserving and enhancing the world's diverse wildlife and their habitats.
The late Jeheskel Shoshani an evolutionary biologist and world-renowned elephant specialist was instrumental in this research.
and African Vulture Technical Advisor with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and colleagues have discovered that vultures rather than aggregating where animals are most abundant as previously thought
Our study shows that vultures seek out areas not where wildlife are most abundant but where they are most likely to die said lead author Corinne Kendall.
and other diseases is now the focus of a new effort by the Wildlife Conservation Society the Peregrine Fund and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary.
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That could cause wildlife to be exposed re to chemicals that previously were locked safely away in the ice he said.
A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society Idaho State university and the U s. Geological Survey suggests that habitat fragmentation
Authors include Kristy Howe of the Wildlife Conservation Society and Idaho State university Peter Coates of the U s. Geological Survey and David Delehanty of Idaho State university.
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Wildlife Conservation Society congratulates Chinese Government for sending strong anti-poaching messagethe Wildlife Conservation Society congratulates China's State Forestry Administration
China has increased enforcement against wildlife crimes in other parts of the country. Last month authorities in Jilin Province arrested five poachers--the largest ever for the province.
and snare removal campaigns as well as camera trapping in the rural areas outside of Hunchun National Nature Reserve (HNR) since last January.
and wildlife conservation HMFB established a special Wildlife Conservation Section in this July. In September WCS launched its 96 Elephants campaign to amplify
and Asia WCS is working with governments to stop wildlife trafficking at the source transport and consumer ends of the chain.
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and they produce nature's best fertilizer for your garden. Don't try to do it all alone.
Traditionally, people had a huge respect for nature--they lived with nature and not against it,
whereas in Western culture, you conquer nature and use it to your advantage. But you can't fight nature.
Look at what happened with the tsunami. In Japan, the disaster has made a lot of people anti-nuclear,
or that the imperfection you find in nature is perfect. This chair is made entirely out of Hurricane Katrina debris. In 2005 we were hired by Metropolis magazine to make an instillation.
Since Mao zedong's call for Man to Conquer Nature in the mid-20th century, environmental concerns have taken a backseat to economic growth in China.
But when wildlife biologists and the U s. Department of agriculture killed nearly 400 geese this summer because they lived in Brooklyn Prospect Park â too close to New york La Guardia
It like a return to nature, says Sergio Ora, the Italian agent for Shwood. The company also recently launched a limited line of (surprisingly light) stone frames made of slate with a walnut interior.
builders and materials makers to make structures that work with nature, not against it. In nature, every organism has to be as efficient as possible with its use of resources.
There no way an organism can use more energy than it produces said Alexis Karolides, an architect with the Rocky mountain Institute in Boulder,
Think of how nature designed it first with a form and a function in mind. Right now, biomimetic innovations have provided already revolutionary ideas for how new buildings are cooled and heated, one of the most energy intensive systems in a structure.
Collaborations between designers and botanists are finding pragmatic ways to blur the line between manmade construction and nature.
THE BUILDINGS ARE ALIVE While today biomimetic architecture incorporate pieces of nature into buildings design,
Armstrong and Spiller wrote in a piece published last year in the journal Nature. In an interview from a lab in Denmark
Now, using technological innovation coupled with inspiration from the biological processes of nature, these dreams are becoming a reality.
Preserving heritage and nature in Hong kong s urban jungle is not new even fruit bats might escape habitat destruction after conservationist lobbying.
Since then, the Raw part of the concept has become less literal, more a nod to the affair's back-to-basics nature.
The work was published in Nature Communications this week. Via Science Image: Erling Jirle, Department of biology, Lund University, Sweden
which translates into Nature protects if she is protected. In the next few decades losses of flora, fauna and ocean's ecosystems will impact food supply
Ashok Khosla, head of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world's oldest environmental network.
Researchers for Nature Journal, who conducted a study in 60 protected areas of Africa, Asia and South america, found that even these final refuges of threatened species are vulnerable to human encroachment and environmental stresses.
head of the Salim Ali Foundation for nature conservation, said that ABS was a wonderful idea
It s a changing time that now allows, because of the nature of the challenges far greater integration.
if nature doesn t give you all the diversity you need? If you can t find the right variety of crops to withstand a drought
Ultimately though, we'd be pressed hard to come up with anything greener than the kind of solutions engineered with the help of mother nature herself.
it's nice to know that nature on its own can provide that kind of support, aided slightly by technology.
As well as humans continue to disconnect from nature --because we're more and more an urban species--we're losing the acoustic link to nature.
In many cases we've lost the visual one. But losing the acoustic one is very important.
building materials and a host of other products drawn from nature. The second issue is environmental degradation,
and it s the biological resources in nature which we will need to adapt. Equally important is the ability of biodiversity to mitigate against the impact of the carbon we release.
Nature should be our greatest asset but we are degrading it instead oe and this is at our peril.
For example many in the financial sector are seeing that we may mimic the cycles of nature in an economic carbon cycle.
and to realize that by working with nature we can do more sustainably, and for the longer-term,
What does it feel like to be out in nature and how does it feel to see the biodiversity diminish?
In the summer 2009 I went to the remote Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, located about halfway between Hawaii
Recent studies suggest that contact with nature can have positive effects on our mental health. How has the UN International Year of Biodiversity helped raise awareness?
and not from the ground where most wildlife are. We would like to know how much impact (the radiation has) on the natural world, such as forest, river,
In social studies, students can recreate replica scale models of the Pyramids of Giza as they conduct research about the mathematics and historical nature of these ancient wonders.
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