and not exactly easy to procur for your average researcher--the three-toed sloths (Bradypus variegatus) used in this study were found in a Panamanian nature reserve.
The mangroves'march up the coast as far north as St augustine Fla. is a striking example of one way climate change's impacts show up in nature.
In a study to appear in the December 22 issue of the journal Nature the team constructed an evolutionary tree of more than 32000 species of flowering plants--the largest time-scaled evolutionary tree to date.
and corn--may have reached their maximum possible yields in farmers'fields according to University of Nebraska-Lincoln research published this week in Nature Communications.
The researchers analysis#oeruminants Climate Change and Climate Policy#is being published today as an opinion commentary in Nature Climate Change a professional journal.
and reproduce optimally in a specific niche in nature which may explain why different strains of Toxoplasma have such varying effects in different organisms.
and connections are strengthening between nature and humans. Liu also shows there's more to this than trade.
and nature and that it is imperative to tackle the drivers of climate change namely greenhouse gases.
and analyzeda new study published in Nature today describes the sugar beet reference genome sequence generated by researchers both from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) the Max Planck Institute for Molecular genetics and the University of Bielefeld in cooperation
The results of the study that will be published today in Nature shed also light on how the genome has been shaped by artificial selection.
what nature dishes out said Stallard a staunch proponent of the sponge effect who is seen often wearing Sponge Bob socks.
The british Medical Journal traditionally publishes a Christmas issue containing a number of articles of a lighthearted nature.
Finland still has a small nitrogen loadfour monitoring areas located in Finnish nature reserves were covered by the research.
Landscape historian Prof Tom Williamson suggests that far from being'natural'nature and the countryside have for centuries largely been the consequence of the activities of humans.
But problems over the definition of'nature'underlie many current issues in conservation. In truth rural landscapes as much as urban ones are largely or entirely artificial in character the creation of particular social economic and technological circumstances.
What remains certain is that nature has existed never outside of or independent from the activities of men.
however we are of course effectively farming wildlife as we now so often do on nature reserves
Many forces of nature work against their anchorage in the soil. Human intervention in coastal areas and climate change also make life difficult for mangrove seedlings.
For successful management and restoration of mangrove forests good understanding of the interaction between vegetation soil and the forces of nature is required.
Both teens had plenty of exposure to nature as kids. Young was a member of the Macoun Field Club an Ottawa club for youth who love nature.
Daust grew up in an off-grid cabin in the forests of central B c.;without computer access his questions came from the wildlife around him.
#New recommendations promote nature conservation in Barents Regioncoordinated by the Finnish Environment Institute the Barents Protected Area Network (BPAN) project involved an analysis of the current status of and gaps in the network of protected
They seek to conserve sufficient pristine nature in order to bring a halt to the destruction of species and ecosystems in line with goals of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
Protected area analyses for the project were conducted through cooperation between Metsã¤hallitus Natural Heritage Services research and scientific institutes of the participant countries and nature conservation organisations.
Joint nature conservation work coordinated by the Finnish Environment Institute was begun in 1997. Over the years a large amount of information has been generated on valuable natural areas
Such areas include the Onezhskoye Pomorye National park on the Onega Peninsula in the Arkhangelsk Region the Kalevala National park in the Republic of Karelia and the Lapland Forest Nature Reserve in the Murmansk Region.
which was completed in 2011 are included now in the regional and national nature conservation plans. Accordingly the results of the Barents Protected Area Network project will be presented internationally nationally and regionally in 2014.
They will be presented at the World Parks Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Planned protected areas included in the national and regional nature conservation plans should be established as statutory protected areas.
and their random nature argues for a perfect storm scenario the study said. It is now clear that salmonella
We are the first to clearly identify the plasmonic nature of this terahertz response he said.
Nor is it stopping either at the boundaries of famous nature reserves like Torres del Paine
--or services that nature provides to humans that have both economic and biological value such as drinking water
In nature laying eggs on oranges is advantageous because parasitoid wasps feeding on the larvae of Drosophila avoid citrus fruits.
#In nature a considerable proportion of Drosophila larvae are killed by enemies mainly parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs inside the larvae.
Ring-tailed lemurs are listed now as an endangered species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commission.
Niger has established just the massive 97000 square kilometer (37451 square miles) Termit and Tin Toumma National Nature Reserve
The research is published in the online journal Nature Communications with related research published in Theoretical and Applied Genetics.
#Citrus fruit inspires a new energy-absorbing metal structureit has been said that nature provides us with everything that we need.
But finally with aluminum nature has given us something we can exploit Nordlander said. The second paper by Nordlander and his group predicts quantum effects in plasmonic aluminum that are stronger than those in an analogous gold structure
In 2012 the International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN) and the Congolese Wildlife Authority (ICCN) published a report titled Bonobo (Pan paniscus:
The research results have been published online in Nature Communications. Trees are the lungs of the earth for that they can fix CO2--the major greenhouse gas--more efficiently.
The conformal nature of the coating process allowed us to generate ceramic replicas that retained even tiny surface features on the starting pollen grains.
The layer-by-layer nature of the coating process allowed for control of the amount of magnetic material and the magnetic properties of the pollen replicas.
The findings are published online today in Nature. We were able to take advantage of detailed studies
The study is published in the journal Nature Conservation. Land use in these parts of Northern europe has changed markedly with key butterfly habitats such as hay meadows disappearing at alarming rates.
In research published in the journal nature in 2010 Wayne and colleagues reported that dogs seem to share more genetic similarity with living Middle Eastern gray wolves than with any other wolf population
However the new research which is published in Nature Communications reveals morphological and genetic evidence for management of cattle in north-eastern China around 10000 years ago around the same time the first domestication of taurine
The samples--which were collected by study co-author Rebecca Mcculley a grassland ecologist at the University of Kentucky--came largely from nature preserves and old cemeteries.
which was conducted by a team of plant scientists from the United states and China and published Oct 18 in Nature Communications.
The species is listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature but there is a current proposal to list the species as Endangered under the U s. Endangered Species Act because of the continuing global declines.
and have published their findings in the journal Nature Communications. The eucalypt acts as a hydraulic pump--its roots extend tens of metres into the ground
or near the Arabian peninsula and the historical deadly nature of the 2002 outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus create further anxiety about the emergency of PEDV in the United states due to the lack of scientific information about the origin
#Large-scale deep re-sequencing reveals cucumbers evolutionary enigmain a collaborative study published online today in Nature Genetics researchers from the Genome Centre of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) BGI
Then he published a paper in Science magazine showing that panda habitat was being destroyed quicker inside the world's most high-profile protected nature reserve than in adjacent areas of China that are protected not enabling the Chinese to realign their policies.
In nature oil storage is the job of seeds where the energy-dense compounds provide nourishment for developing plant embryos.
which automatically qualifies them for inclusion in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. The problem say the authors is that these species are so rare that scientists may never find them.
and support the growing population is putting pressure on these little pockets of wild nature.
Tour's breakthrough unzipping technique for turning multiwalled carbon nanotubes into GNRS first revealed in Nature in 2009 has been licensed for industrial production.
and Jun Lou appears today in the online journal Nature Communications. Oxidation prevention is already big business
#Grains fumigated ecologicallya substance present in nature turned out to be just as effective as other chemical compounds to eradicate harmful organisms in stored grains without negative effects.
Study results appear online Oct 2 in Nature. Until now no one had a clue about which olfactory receptor insects used to avoid DEET said Anandasankar Ray an associate professor of entomology who led the research team.
The results of the study will be published in the journal Nature Communications on 1 october 2013. Post began his observations on the relationship between the timing of caribou calving and the start of the plant-growing season in Greenland 20 years ago.
The bottom line is that we must conserve large intact habitats for nature said Gibson. That's the only way we can ensure biodiversity will survive.
which was published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change. As part of the largest investment in coal-fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large-scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters
or virtual replacements that some people feel are more personal than a memorial in a cemetery or in nature.
The study is being published in Nature Communications. A tendency that is spreadingwhile the process has been going on in densely populated developed countries for a long time it has accelerated also in recent times in less well-developed countries and societies
which nature uses to breakdown the cell walls of wood fiber and which some day may be used in biomass conversion processes for energy and sustainable biomaterials production.
At this stage there are several hypotheses as to the nature of the mechanism but it is very likely that Busseola fusca has developed an unconventional resistance mechanism yet to be identified.
The next step is to see how we might be able to mimic nature with this new motif we discovered Yarger says.
The research supported by a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant took place at Moor House National Nature Reserve high up in the North Pennines a long-term ecological monitoring site for the UK Environmental Change Network.
and peas the researchers report in the journal Nature. The researchers studied second-growth forests in Panama that had been used for agriculture five to 300 years ago The presence of legume trees ensured rapid forest growth in the first 12 years of recovery and thus a substantial
and its players in the Sept. 13 2013 online edition of Nature Communications Our results suggest that successful farming is a complex evolutionary adaptation
As the researchers said in a Nature paper published in 2011 about a third of the wild clones carry seed and prudently harvest edible bacteria qualifying as farmers albeit primitive ones.
In the Nature Communications'article the scientists describe assays where they mixed farmers and nonfarmers in different proportions to see how they would do in direct competition with one another.
and grow as nature intended. He says a more hands on approach will be needed in the immediate future to protect the region from massive population loss.
Today in a paper appearing online in Nature Jackson and colleagues present first evidence of a functional interaction between an important class of signaling molecule called A g protein which binds receptors and an unexpected class of cell-surface receptors.
Nature is a very good chemist and we are learning from that and sometimes improving on it with new edible coatings that protect the quality and nutritional value of food.
Nature has set the standard and it is daunting. Apples oranges bananas nuts--all come in packaging that is edible or compostable.
and grass in a garden compost pile uncertainties exist about the nature and fate of the degradation products released during the breakdown.
Additionally scientists now gain deeper insight into the dynamic nature of the interstellar winds which has major implications on the size structure
and nature of our sun's heliosphere--the gigantic bubble that surrounds our solar system and helps shield us from dangerous incoming galactic radiation.
Stanford biologists have been studying the intersection of nature and agriculture in Costa rica since the 1990s in part because of the vast amounts of land in that country dedicated to coffee production.
And cooperation from Mother Nature in terms of temperature and precipitation doesn't hurt either. To quantify the impact of genetic improvement in wheat disease
The perennial nature of biomass crops also makes developing contracts challenging. We're in a unique environment
The Rice group of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan reported today in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports that the supercapacitor is reliable at temperatures of up to 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees
Now the same researchers are probing a secret of nature of potentially great commercial interest as well:
The study is published in the September 1 online issue of Nature Geoscience. Humanmade climate change comes mostly from the radiative forcing of greenhouse gases and air pollutants or aerosols.
The study published in the journal Nature Climate Change and carried out by researchers at the University of Exeter
Another possibility is that red spruce may be one of nature's winners in the face of climate change.
I believe it lies in our human nature. Such plantings could have a huge impact on the Greenlandic countryside of the future as a source of dissemination.
and planting species takes place without any control this could lead to nature developing in a very chaotic way reminiscent of the Klondike warns Professor Svenning.
and displace the hunter-gatherer cultures that had lived there for millennia specifies the article in Nature with reference to the Leche project.
The research published in Nature Communications today (27 august) gives new insights into the movements of prehistoric humans and the transition of technologies and knowledge.
This study published in Nature Communications today provides an invaluable resource for the genetic improvement of sorghum
The study published today in Nature was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases (NIAID) a component of the National institutes of health and other organizations.
Humans have changed really the nature of mature forests in the Northeast Stoleson said. Natural processes that once created open spaces even within mature forests such as fire are controlled largely diminishing the availability of quality habitat.
Nature Communications. This demonstrates the adverse effects of added sugars at human-relevant levels says University of Utah biology professor Wayne Potts the study's senior author He says previous studies using other tests
You then have to try to infer what the nature of the eruption was when this is the only information you've got.
which volunteers count birds that visit feeders at backyards nature centers community areas and other locations from November through early April.
and desire are amplified said Matthew walker a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience and senior author of the study published Aug 6 in the journal Nature Communications.
What's more the 2-D nature of this system could allow it to be fabricated right on a chip along with the necessary control circuits and other components.
and the species is classified as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources'Red List.
Discovered in 1878 by the Florentine botanist Odoardo Beccarini the Titan arum another common name given the plant by Sir David Attenborough in his BBC nature documentary series heats up as it blooms
Nature does it better adds Becker's colleague Volker Wulfmeyer if we understand and can make use of it in a sustainable manner.
research showsit might be easier than previously thought for a planet to overheat into the scorchingly uninhabitable runaway greenhouse stage according to new research by astronomers at the University of Washington and the University of Victoria published July 28 in the journal Nature Geoscience.
and adolescents the nature of this influence is different between the age groups said Moghaddam. We observed changes in areas of the brain responsible for decision making and habit formation.
The international team's work is detailed in two papers published online today in Nature.
and oil yield explains Dr. Rajinder Singh of the MPOB first author of the Nature paper describing the Shell gene.
This study was supported by the Snow leopard Trust Trust for Mutual understanding National geographic Society Whitley Fund for Nature and The british Broadcasting company Wildlife Fundstory Source:
In some regions of northwestern Europe grassland butterflies are restricted now almost to road verges railway sidings rocky or wet places urban areas and nature reserves.
Areas using traditional low-input farming systems known as High Nature Value Farmland are also important habitats.
For those two key crops a computer model could predict crop failures three months in advance for about 20 percent of global cropland according to the study published July 21 in Nature Climate Change.
The study published in Nature Publishing Group's Scientific Reports looked at the frequency of'micronuclei'--a telltale sign of chromosomal damage (that has been shown by others previously to be linked to cancer) by screening more than 400000 individual cells extracted from urine samples
But Mother Nature's also giving us this picture we know is full of dark matter
Of these three improving the efficiency of the IT devices is overwhelmingly the most important said Jonathan Koomey a co-author of the study Characteristics of Low-Carbon Data centers published online June 25 in Nature Climate Change.
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications North carolina State university plant pathologist Jean Ristaino
A new study to be published in Nature's The ISME Journal reveals the profound effect it has on enriching soil with bacteria fungi and protozoa.
In addition factors such as the ph nature and amount of adsorbent used for extraction were considered to establish the optimum conditions under which tomato peel could remove various pollutants from water.
and Jozani-Chwaka Bay) one nature reserve (Kilombero) and two forest reserves (Minziro and Mgambo) totaling 8679 square kilometers (3350 square miles) would protect all 27 of Tanzania
However what has been unclear is the nature of early European farming and the role it has played in shaping social and economic change.
'The fact that farmers made long-term investments such as manuring in their land sheds new light on the nature of early farming landscapes in Neolithic times.
The EU's Common Agricultural Policy must account for the cost of not working with nature.
la nature et les technologies and the Fonds de la recherche en sant du Qu bec.
In an international collaboration led by the U s. Department of energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) the most recent findings from exploring microbial dark matter were published online July 14 2013 in the journal Nature.
Microbes are the most abundant and diverse forms of life On earth said Tanja Woyke DOE JGI Microbial Program Head and senior author on the Nature publication.
The Nature publication Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter builds upon a DOE JGI pilot project the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea GEBA:
The results recently published in Nature Genetics and PNAS respectively unveil a long shared history of co-evolution between the host and the pest and the unexpected success of asexually produced mildew offspring.
and Wildlife Research Unit the Great plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative and the Nature Conservancy. Story Source:
and Planetary Sciences the USDA Forest Service Ohio State university Indiana University and the Karlsruhe Institute of technology in Germany is described in a July 10 paper in Nature.
and The Nature Conservancy. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Kansas State university.
That's good for the plants and good for nature the researcher observes. Story Source:
The results of the study Clouds and Temperature Drive Dynamic Changes in Tropical Flower Production was published July 7 in the journal Nature Climate Change.
This is demonstrated by a study published in Nature that has been carried out at the University of Bern.
which has just been published in the Nature journal. They say that a global temperature target is neither sufficient nor suitable to avoid further damage that is relevant for communities and ecosystem services.
Yet it has been challenging to figure out how to sustain the many benefits people obtain from nature--so-called ecosystem services--in any given landscape
Michigan State university partnered with the Chinese Academy of Sciences has capitalized on their long history of research in the Wolong Nature Reserve to get a complete picture of the environmental and socioeconomic effects of payments for ecosystem services programs.
because the climate has shifted to become suitable for another set of species. This also makes it challenging to adhere to a management plan granting preservation status to a particular type of nature at a certain site.
but at the same time nature is SO slow. Just think of a tree generation. Our entire culture is based on something that was if not in complete equilibrium then at least relatively predictable.
With nature in such a state of disequilibrium human introduction of new species will play a key role.
Their work is published in the June 30 2013 online issue of Nature Climate Change. The inclusion of tropical tree-ring records enabled the team to generate an archive of ENSO activity of unprecedented accuracy as attested by the close correspondence with records from equatorial Pacific corals and with an independent Northern hemisphere
Oklahoma's Nature Conservancy; Turner Enterprises; and other federal state nonprofit and commercial entities. The organizations kept annual records of each animal in the herd and matched the data with the climates of the sites.
which is owned jointly by The Nature Conservancy and Kansas State university. Managed by the university's Division of Biology the Konza Prairie spans about 8600 acres.
The work is published online in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften--The Science of Nature. The first time bees go out looking for nectar
They applied a technique developed by paper co-author Brad Mcrae of the Nature Conservancy that's based on how electricity finds the path of least resistance when traveling across circuit boards.
Nature conservationists call it lingering illness and the latest report on the North-Rhine Westphalian forest conditions confirms ongoing damage.
Wu Yang an MSU-CSIS doctoral student and his colleagues studied how groups in the Wolong Nature Reserve worked to participate in China's massive Natural Forest Conservation Program.
It's difficult to think that we can actually find a process that improves on nature says Aylward
Tour and his colleagues developed a method for unzipping nanotubes into GNRS revealed in a 2009 cover story in Nature.
--but now the genes underlying these phenomena of nature have been revealed. In the online journal elife a large international group of scientists led by investigators at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have traced the thousands of genes in a plant that are activated once ethylene a gas that acts as a plant
In Finland the parasite is regarded as a major obstacle to people's enjoyment of nature during the autumn
but researchers engineers and students at VI the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NVH) the University of Oslo (Uio) Hedmark Univeristy College (Hihe) the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Their results are published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. When Bt crops were introduced first the main question was how quickly would pests adapt
The work appears online this week in Nature Materials. The Rice labs of lead investigator Jun Lou Pulickel Ajayan and Boris Yakobson all professors in the university's Mechanical engineering and Materials Science Department collaborated with Wigner Fellow Wu
Co-authors of the Nature Materials paper are Rice research associate Xiaolong Zou graduate students Gang Shi and Sidong Lei and Wu Zhou at Oak ridge National Laboratory.
In these areas endangered species are restricted to semi-natural habitats and nature reserves. Also endangered bee species often specialize on flowers that cannot easily be established on farmland such as heather or bilberry.
In a paper appearing in Nature Climate Change members of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project unveiled an all-encompassing modeling system that integrates multiple crop simulations with improved climate change models.
Now more deer are crowding into less winter cover shifting the dynamic balance of nature.
and Rice alumna Rosa Dominguez-Faus found no scientific consensus on the climate-friendly nature of U s.-produced corn-based ethanol
Junguo Liu a professor at the School of Nature Conservation Beijing Forestry University; and Amy Myers Jaffe executive director of energy and sustainability at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.
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