It was hoped that these insects would take over these important services when they were introduced first into central Chile in southern South america in 1998 as pollinators in a few greenhouses with the backing and approval of the state authorities.
The study SNAP Education and Evaluation Study (Wave II) was funded by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U s. Department of agriculture (USDA.
and enterprises have for giving as an incentive economic resources to countries with preserved forest zones (payment scheme of environmental services).
Such a scenario could involve including snow cover/albedo in existing greenhouse gas exchanges like the Kyoto protocol or a cap-and-trade program or ecosystem services market in
Previous studies have put a price on many ecosystem services --or services that nature provides to humans that have both economic and biological value such as drinking water
and crop pollination--but the Dartmouth study is the first to do so for albedo or the surface reflection of incoming solar energy.
The findings contrast with the dominant paradigm that including forest climate mitigation services such as carbon storage on compliance markets will lead to the conservation of forests.
and other ecosystem services so they recommend forest managers take those factors into account as they try to maximize the flow of timber carbon storage and albedo in mid-and high-latitude temperate and boreal forests.
The data has now been made available in particular to the scientific community and to climate services with the aim of providing climate information to economic industrial and political stakeholders.
since the 1970s a new study conducted by the U s. Forest Service Pacific's Northwest (PNW) Research Station has found.
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Thomas Wilson and Daniel Wilson both of Wilson Engineering Services; and Lew Mccreery and Janice Wiedenbeck both forest products technologists U s. Forest Service.
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#Precipitation declines in Pacific Northwest mountainsrecent Forest Service studies on high-elevation climate trends in the Pacific Northwest United states show that streamflow declines tie directly to decreases
Research Hydrologist Charlie Luce with the Rocky mountain Research Station's Aquatic Sciences Laboratory in Boise Idaho along with cooperators at the University of Idaho and the US Forest Service Northern Region
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#Reforestation in Lower Mississippi Valley reduces sedimenta modeling study by U s. Forest Service researchers shows that reforesting the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley can significantly reduce runoff from agricultural lands
The journal Ecological Engineering recently published the results of the study by Forest Service Southern Research Station scientists Ying Ouyang Ted Leininger and Matt Moran.
The U s. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) commissioned the study and co-funded it with Forest Service State and Private Forestry.
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A recent study led by Dr. Jianwei Zhang research forester at the U s. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station considered
and plantations from 1944 to 1988 and 59 additional ponderosa pine plots measured by the Forest Service's Forest Inventory
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and sheep at present and the figure is expected to increase to 1 million by 2015 a growth rate of 12.1%as projected by the Veterinary Services Department.
GMP@Biotech (or FTU) a service centre under the Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science of UPM.
The FTU services centre which cost RM14 million to develop is now serving a horde of local companies like Malaysia Agriculture Hightech Stella Gen Johor Biomicrobe Pascal Biotech MVP One
and FTU were currently developing the standard operating procedure (SOP) for the mass production of the STVAC 7 vaccine using the GMP facilities of the service centre as well as product registration before marketing.
The review The consequences of Tree Pests and Diseases for Ecosystem Services by scientists from the universities of Southampton Cambridge Oxford and St andrews is published today (15 november) in the journal Science.
Trees and forests provide a wide variety of ecosystem*services in addition to timber food and other provisioning services such as carbon sequester
and storage reducing flood risk and leisure use. The researchers say that new approaches to pest
and disease management are needed that take into account these multiple services and the different stakeholders they benefit as well as the likelihood of greater threats in the future resulting from globalisation and climate change.
and diseases for the full range of ecosystem services provided by trees. The term pest and disease was used to describe all pathogens
and small-to medium-size insect herbivores that--by causing tree damage and death--disrupt the ecosystem services provided by trees.
#U s. Fish and Wildlife Service crushes stockpiled illegal elephant ivorythe Wildlife Conservation Society's President and CEO Cristiã¡
n Samper today issued a statement in connection with a U s. Fish and Wildlife Service event in Denver CO at
and Wildlife Service takes the unprecedented step of pulverizing nearly six tons of elephant ivory stored at the National Wildlife Property Repository in Colorado.
Identification of risk factors for delayed milk production could help target breastfeeding support services and enable women with GDM to experience the benefits of lactation for their own future health and that of their offspring.
The lack of accountability on these anonymous services is easy to exploit Guan says. Criminals use anonymous systems to commit crimes against innocent people online and in the real world.
If a criminal uses the service to send a malicious message the network expends the same computing power to send that message
The USDA Natural resources Conservation Service (NRCS) promotes and provides technical information on a wide array of techniques that can be used to reduce nutrient losses including fertilizer rate timing and placement;
and community-based services that MD Anderson can lead to end tobacco at the institutional local regional state national and international levels Hawk said.
To combat reliance on tobacco in mental health populations experts agree that mental health services and government-sponsored tobacco control programs must work together to improve education and access to smoking cessation programs.
and cessation services that existed when New jersey had a Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program. New jersey eliminated its program in 2010 due to budget cuts leaving millions of smokers without options.
and wellness services and broaden access through clinical care. Whereas the treatment for tobacco dependence has typically been delivered in primary care settings linking mental health facilities with state and county tobacco control programs allows smoking cessation education to be incorporated into counseling
For healthcare providers integrated programs could provide strategies for improving Medicaid reimbursement of tobacco treatment services.
The USDA's Economic Research Service estimates that 23.5 million people in the U s. live in food deserts in urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh healthy and affordable food.
In the future we may rely on other insect species to perform crop pollination services including naturally-occurring native
#Economic assessment of mountain pine beetle timber salvagea recently published study by U s. Forest Service researchers evaluates potential revenues from harvesting standing timber killed by mountain pine beetle in the western
Research Forester Jeff Prestemon and fellow scientists with the Forest Service Southern Research Station Forest Economics and Policy unit and with the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment
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and ecosystem services in the Amazon it also notes that almost none of the 227 hyperdominant species are consistently common across the Amazon.
I. The U s. Fish & Wildlife Service Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Project W-146-R and the natural history survey provided funding for this research.
The team of scientists--comprising researchers from Harvard SEAS the National park service the USDA Forest Service the U s. Environmental protection agency
In 2012 U s. Forest Service surveys indicated that more area was under attack by spruce beetles than mountain pine beetles in the Southern Rocky mountains
and safeguard future pollination services. Pesticides can have a detrimental effect on bees at levels used in the field said co-author Dr Nigel Raine.
The research site managed by the U s. Forest Service was targeted because of the declining growth rates and unexpected death of trees in the area.
and education services and support training inputs and technical assistance for sustainable agriculture. The Makira forest spans nearly 400000 hectares (more than 1500 square miles) making it one of the largest remaining intact blocks of rainforest in Madagascar.
The team used yield data obtained from the U s. Department of agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) in Wisconsin for beet cabbage carrot cucumber green pea onion potato snap bean
As long as we offer farmers the right services and policies now and more options in what they grow
and services The doctoral thesis broadened the scope of previous analyses by focusing on new environmental impacts:
The results of the doctoral theses support the view that Finland has undergone a transition from industrial society to a service society.
The work was supported by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service Asian Elephant Conservation Fund and the Rufford Small Grants Foundation.
or both the scientists went through decades of data on 65 dominant tree species in the 31 eastern states compiled by the USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis program.
Christopher W. Woodall research forester at the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station in St paul Minn.
If we can gain a better understanding of the factors causing honeybee decline we may be able to apply this knowledge to protecting other species. Fell cited funding from the Virginia Department of agriculture and Consumer Services the National Honey Board the Virginia Agricultural
Larsen used USDA county-level data for 1987 1992 1997 2002 and 2007 as well as from the National Agricultural Statistics Service Cropland Data Layer for 2007 for the same
and downstream and also improve the natural capital underpinning rural livelihoods and services to urban areas.
as a result of winter injury U s. Forest Service and University of Vermont scientists came up with a surprising result--three decades later the canary is feeling much better.
Paul Schaberg a research plant physiologist with the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station in Burlington Vt. and partners studied red spruce trees in Vermont New hampshire and Massachusetts.
Forest Service science was at the forefront in identifying acid rain and its impacts and it is enormously gratifying to be at the forefront of discovering this amazing turn-around in red spruce growth in New england said Michael T. Rains Director of the Northern Research Station and the Forest Product Laboratory.
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#Woodland salamanders indicators of forest ecosystem recoverywoodland salamanders are a viable indicator of forest ecosystem recovery according to researchers from the U s. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station.
but they provide crucial environmental services to society. According to the researchers this type of forest is a unique carbon sink containing the most abundant land carbon stocks on the planet.
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Dr. Beth Middleton of the U s. Geological Survey National Wetlands Research center and Evelyn Anemaet of Five Rivers Services Inc. discovered a way to simplify the construction of dendrometer bands.
and urban areas and to enhance pollination services for crops and biodiversity. Under current agri-environment schemes the UK Government pays farmers to manage their land for the benefit of particular habitats
The map looked like a big red blob said Penny Luehring the U s. Forest Service's Burned Area Emergency Response
As a wildfire starts to die down fire managers like Luehring can contact the Forest Service's Remote Sensing Applications Center in Salt lake city to request maps that identify the high moderate and low severity burns.
but a U s. Forest Service study suggests that in the weeks leading up to migration younger forest habitat may be just as important.
In an article published recently in the American Ornithologist Union's publication The Auk research wildlife biologist Scott Stoleson of the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station suggests that forest regrowth in clearcuts
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Thomas R. Rainwater of the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service; James C. Nifong of the University of Florida;
Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund Minnesota Zoo Foundation National Aviary National Birds of Prey Trust United states Forest Service-International Programs and the University of Minnesota.
In addition to designing products that can be profitable for consumers the team advises designers to consider designing for reliability and service as well as multifunctionality.
Nokia also provided reliability via dedicated service vans that traveled to rural Indian villages to fix broken phones.
along with a service plan that established a continuing relationship with the company likely swayed customers toward Nokia's phones.
Yang and Austin-Breneman found that service and reliability were also big factors for small farmers in choosing a system for drip irrigation--an efficient means of delivering small amounts of water directly to the base of each plant.
Farmers tended to choose systems that came with service plans along with extras beyond the irrigation system itself.
For example while Nokia was able to invest millions of dollars in developing a service network a startup may not have such resources.
The U s Forest Service is one of the beneficiaries of NASA's fire detection capability
The Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt lake city receives and processes MODIS data
USGS and the U s. Forest Service started the program in 2003 after an intense U s. wildfire season highlighted the need for unbiased information to guide decision makers as they allocate resources.
Forest Service and USGS analysts are in the process of mapping the frequency size and severity of all large fires from 1984 to present.
A 100000-acre wildfire used to be unusual you would see one every few years said Carl Albury a contractor with the Forest Service-Remote Sensing
In a study published this week in the journal Biological Invasions U s. Forest Service entomologist Andrew Liebhold
Both for forests and urban trees the emerald ash borer has been devastating said Michael T. Rains Director of the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station and Director of the Forest Products Laboratory.
The Forest Service is helping cities and states prepare for and recover from EAB invasion with research on the insect ash trees'resistance to EAB and biological control.
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Service are advocating for automated quality control and quality assurance standards that will make that data reliable.
and Lindsey Rustad of the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station and colleagues make a case for incorporating automated quality control and quality assurance procedures in sensor networks.
As scientists with the Forest Services'Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains Campbell and Rustad know the promise and pitfalls of sensor networks.
Donald L. Henshaw U s. Forest Service; Mary E. Martin University of New hampshire; Wade. M. Sheldon University of Georgia;
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and understand the risks of their consumption by conducting a survey of 12000 men under a national cohort study as they were recruited for national service.
S. Forest Service researchers have identified what may be a key to unraveling some of the mysteries of White Nose Syndrome:
The study by Andrew Minnis and Daniel Lindner both with the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station in Madison Wis. outlines research on the evolution of species related to the fungus
A marked decline in bat populations in the eastern United states was documented in a study published last month in PLOS One by Sybill Amelon a research biologist with the Forest Service in Columbus Mo
The study is based on a foundation of collaborative research among the U s. Forest Service the USGS National Wildlife Health Center
and the U s. Fish & Wildlife Service and is a continuation of pioneering research initiated by Canadian researchers at the University of Alberta
For this study in particular USGS and Fish & Wildlife Service partners played critical roles collecting the fungi used in these studies.
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Much of the data analyzed for this study was collected with the support of the US Fish & Wildlife Service and USAID's Central africa Regional Program for the Environment.
and Distributions U s. Forest Service researchers Andrew Liebhold Laura Blackburn Susan Frankel and partners used spatial data to demonstrate that the distribution of invasive forest pests is focused highly with a particularly large
and 65 percent of the insect and pathogen invaders included in this study colonize hardwood tree species said Liebhold a research entomologist with the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station.
There are plenty of highly-damaging invasive species in Western United states forests such as sudden oak death and white pine blister rust according to Frankel a plant pathologist with the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station.
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and children do not get enough scfos said Cristina Munteanu senior technical service technologist at Ingredion Inc. As an additive scfos is a clear stable powder suitable for pasteurization baking
The study demonstrates the importance of bringing ecosystem services into decision-making and to make full use of the potential gains from working with the natural environment
Recasting the CAP as a Payment for Ecosystem Services mechanism would reward farmers for delivering a bundle of key of ecosystem services including climate change mitigation by the reduction of emission of greenhouse gases water regulation recreation and biodiversity conservation.
It is time to reward farmers for securing the vital ecosystem services that are valued highly by society.
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.
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
and location of 10 different ecosystem services across a landscape opening the door to being able to identify factors governing their synergies and tradeoffs.
Monica Turner the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Zoology and graduate student Jiangxiao Qiu mapped the production distribution and interactions of the services in three main categories:
We found that the main ecosystem services are not independent of each other. They interact spatially in very complex ways says Qiu lead author of the new study.
However two other sets of services showed positive associations: flood regulation pasture and freshwater supply all went together as did forest recreation soil retention carbon storage and surface water quality.
If you manage for one of these services you can probably enhance others as well says Turner.
But despite this there are still some locations that can be high for all three services--exceptions that can produce high crop yield and good water quality in general.
The results also show that nearly all of the land in the watershed provides a high level of at least one of the measured services
Most areas offer a high level of just one or two services. But a few termed hotspots
and protected areas) provide high levels of at least six of the measured services. A single piece of land can provide different kinds of services simultaneously
but you cannot expect that this land can provide all of the benefits Qiu says. The work was undertaken as part of a larger project to improve water sustainability in a mixed urban and agricultural landscape supported by the Water Sustainability and Climate Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF.
This paper is an initial assessment that gives us a picture of the spatial distribution of ecosystem services in contemporary times a starting point for comparison says Chris Kucharik a UW-Madison professor of agronomy and environmental studies
and Samuel Andanje Patrick Omondi and Moses Litoroh all of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Ivory Trade Drives Elephant Slaughterinternational agreements banned most trade of raw ivory from Asian elephants after 1975 and African elephants after 1989.
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.
Performance and prospects of payments for ecosystem services programs: evidence from China has been published in the Journal of Environmental Management.
Payments for ecosystem services programs--programs in which people were given incentives to change their behavior so the forest around them could recover--have been an enormous effort in China and worldwide.
and understanding underlying mechanisms to enhance the performance of payments for ecosystem services programs. The article also notes that understanding some of the impacts raises questions for future policy--about
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#Illegal marijuana grows threaten fishers in the southern Sierra Nevadarat poison used on illegal marijuana grows is killing fishers in the southern Sierra nevada according to a recent study conducted by a team of scientists from the U s. Forest Service's Pacific
and California endangered species acts and is considered a sensitive species in the western United states by the U s. Forest Service.
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#Illegal marijuana grows threaten fishers in the southern Sierra Nevadarat poison used on illegal marijuana grows is killing fishers in the southern Sierra nevada according to a recent study conducted by a team of scientists from the U s. Forest Service's Pacific
and California endangered species acts and is considered a sensitive species in the western United states by the U s. Forest Service.
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or PM2. 5) a U s. Forest Service and Davey Institute study found that urban trees
and Robert Hoehn of the U s. Forest Service and Satoshi Hirabayashi and Allison Bodine of the Davey Institute in Syracuse N y. estimated how much fine particulate matter is removed by trees in 10 cities their impact on PM2
and forests said Michael T. Rains Director of the Forest Service's Northern Research Station
. i-Tree a suite of tools developed by the Forest Service and Davey Institute was used to calculate PM2. 5 removal and associated change in concentrations in the study citiesstory Source:
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The work was supported by the USDA Cooperative State Research Education and Extension service the USDA Agricultural research service the North carolina Department of agriculture and Consumer Services and the National Honey Board.
Grant Harris chief of biological sciences (Southwest region) U s. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Jessica Schnell recently graduated now at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Germany.
and Policies for Provision of Ecosystem Services Nord n explores the weaknesses of PES programmes
and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)--an independent body modeled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
and serves also as science advisor to his country's prime minister cited fast-growing evidence that we are hurtling towards irreversible environmental tipping points that once passed would reduce the ability of ecosystems to provide essential goods and services to humankind.
and fires could cause much of the Amazon forest to transform abruptly to more open dry-adapted ecosystems threatening the region's enormous biodiversity and priceless services he added.
and ecosystem services is an important but missing element in the international response to the biodiversity crisis Dr. Zakri told the 7th Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity.
And I agree that many of the services the environment provides like clean water and air are irreplaceable necessities.
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and Charles Perrings studied the effects of reforestation on a'bundle'of ecosystem services: dry-season water flows carbon sequestration timber and livestock production.
Published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) their study--Bundling ecosystem services in the Panama canal Watershed--examines precipitation topography vegetation
Our research provides an insight into the importance of understanding the spatial distribution of the costs and benefits of jointly produced services.
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Training Network (BESTNET. Simonit and Perrings found that only 37 percent of the currently forested area positively impacts dry-season water flows offering up roughly 37.2 million cubic meters of seasonal flow (equivalent to US $16. 37 million
Water supply is however only one amongst many ecosystem services affected by reforestation of the watershed said Perrings a professor in the School of Life sciences in ASU's College of Liberal arts and Sciences.
And the balance between services depends on the type of reforestation undertaken. Accordingly the duo investigated two reforestation scenarios:
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