Biodiversity is important to ensuring we don't lose that service. Relying on a few species could be risky in a changing environment he added.
or to the quality of the pollination services they provide to wildflowers or agricultural crops.
and Management by U s. Forest Service scientists synthesizes recent findings on the interactions between fire and climate and outlines future research needs.
Authored by research meteorologists Yongqiang Liu and Scott Goodrick from the Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) and Warren Heilman from the Northern Research Station the article homes in on the effect
Besides the atmospheric impacts wildfires also modify terrestrial ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration soil fertility grazing value biodiversity and tourism.
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We were interested initially in quantifying the environmental services provided by the Amazon and their replacement by agricultural output.
or off put but it was a surprise to us that high levels of deforestation could be a no-win scenario--the loss of environmental services provided by the deforestation may not be offset by an increase in agriculture production.
#Loss of eastern hemlock will affect forest water usethe loss of eastern hemlock from forests in the Southern Appalachian region of the United states could permanently change the area's hydrologic cycle reports a new study by U s. Forest Service
The study was conducted at the U s. Forest Service Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in the Nantahala Mountains of western North carolina.
Since 1934 precipitation temperature and stream flow have been recorded continuously at Coweeta a U s. Forest Service Southern Research Station facility.
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finds state-by-state analysisfrom New york city's Central park to Golden gate Park in San francisco America's urban forests store an estimated 708 million tons of carbon an environmental service with an estimated value
of $50 billion according to a recent U s. Forest Service study. Annual net carbon uptake by these trees is estimated at 21 million tons and $1. 5 billion in economic benefit.
In the study published recently in the journal Environmental Pollution Dave Nowak a research forester with the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station
and well-being of our environment and our communities said U s. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell.
The Forest Service partners with organizations like the Arbor day Foundation and participates in programs like Tree City USA to recognize
Additionally the Forest Service is active in more than 7000 communities across the U s. helping them to better plan
Nationally carbon storage by trees in forestlands was estimated at 22.3 billion tons in a 2008 Forest Service study;
Carbon Stored (tons) Total 708100000the mission of the U s. Forest Service is to sustain the health diversity
The mission of the Forest Service's Northern Research Station is to improve people's lives
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There are several alternatives to using neonicotinoids and other pesticides according to Simon Potts professor of biodiversity and ecosystem services at Reading University UK.
while Sequoia was in unclassified early science service as part of the machine's integration period.
The system is classified now in service. Sequoia is dedicated to the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Advanced Simulation
and Midwestern United states contain at least one nonnative plant species a new U s. Forest Service study found.
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or threatened species the U s. Environmental protection agency National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) should use a common scientific approach says a new report from the National Research
The study was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration U s. Environmental protection agency U s. Fish and Wildlife Service and U s. Department of agriculture.
and repair and to help plan sustainable service centers. The goal is to enable the community gardeners to maintain
and South african partners to plan different types of government-supported service centers that could provide advice spare parts
and evaluate two of the proposed service centers in South africa. The students'long-range goal is to create a model sustainability program that could be used to enable farmers
A co-investigator for Phase II is Dipankar Chakravarti a Johns Hopkins Carey Business school professor who will advise a business school graduate student assigned to assist with the setup and evaluation of the service centers.
and fertilization due to the processing and transport required for these products and services. Landscaping is something everyone can understand Townsend-Small says.
and provide critical environmental services such as nitrogen cycling. The convergence of nanotechnology with environmental microbiology could expand the limits of technology enhance global health through safer water reuse
But as a nation--households supermarkets restaurants other food-service providers--we throw away about 4 out of every 10 pounds of food produced each year.
and its livelihood and well-being depend on services provided by marine ecosystems said JPL's Marc Simard one of the campaign's many principal investigators.
and preservation efforts in about eight square miles of the adjacent Kaibab National Forest managed by the U s. Forest Service and the Department of agriculture.
Co-authors of the Soil science Society of America Journal article are Chris Swanston of the U s. Forest Service Umakant Mishra of the Argonne National Laboratory and Knute Nadelhoffer director of the U-M
The work was supported by the U s. Forest Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Story Source:
N00014-04-1-0313)( T. K. B. K.)and the U s. Department of agriculture-Forest Service (Grant No. 12-JV-11111122-098.
Funding for CNC substrate processing was provided by USDA-Forest Service (Grant No. 11-JV-11111129-118)( R. J. M. J. P. Y. J. L
.).The authors thank Rick Reiner and Alan Rudie from the U s. Forest Service-Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) for providing CNC materials.
but long-term data at the U s. Forest Service's Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest suggests that more productive forests might carry considerably less water according to a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mark Green a research hydrologist with the Forest Service's Northern Research Station and an assistant professor at Plymouth State university is the lead author for the study titled Decreased Water Flowing from a Forest Amended with Calcium Silicate.
In 1999 scientists at the Forest Service's Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New hampshire restored soil calcium levels to preindustrial levels in a small watershed in an effort
and decades of monitoring data from this network the Forest Service is contributing invaluable information about forest conditions along a complex rural to urban land gradient as well as discovering other trends through a wide-range
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The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to hold another public comment period this spring before voting on the issue Sept. 30.
and to smoke more heavily than others according to a new report by the Substance abuse and Mental health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
We found three functional copies that were said identical senior author Leon Kochian director of the U s. Department of agriculture--Agriculture Research Service Plant Soil and Nutrition Laboratory at Cornell.
The study focused on sites that are part of the USDA Forest Service's Experimental Forest
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The study was supported in part by U s. Public health Service Research Grants HL-30568 and HL-34343 and by the Laubisch Castera and M. K. Grey funds at UCLA. Studies on the determination of 6f in intestinal contents and plasma were funded partially by a Network Grant from the Leducq Foundation.
This month the journal Mycologia will publish research by a team of U s. Forest Service scientists
The significance of the Forest Service's recent research will have an immediate and direct benefit to WNS response at a national scale according to Katie Gillies imperiled species coordinator At bat Conservation International.
Daniel Lindner a research plant pathologist with the Forest Service's Northern Research Station led research that identified 35 species of Geomyces more than doubling the number of known species. Lindner
Forest Service scientists collaborated with the U s. Geological Survey and the University of Wisconsin for both studies.
White Nose Syndrome is arguably the most devastating wildlife disease we've faced said Michael T. Rains Director of the Forest Service's Northern Research Station.
Forest Service scientists are conducting research to halt this disease and save bats which are so important to agriculture and forest ecosystems.
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and other woody debris that are inevitable byproducts of timber harvest could be among the most important components of postharvest landscapes according to a new study led by the U s. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station.
and Oregon affiliated with the North american Long-term Soil Productivity study a collaborative program launched by Forest Service Research and development more than two decades ago.
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These changes will affect local residents through changes in provisioning ecosystem services such as timber and traditional foods says Research Professor Bruce Forbes University of Lapland Rovaniemi Finland.
They will also impact the global community through changes in regulatory ecosystem services relating to emissions of greenhouse gases.
The U s. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service recently implemented a formal methodology for evaluation of weediness
and SD performs something of a service by taking it out when it can. The whole story is really a clash of the selfish.
Lee White CBE head of Gabon's National parks Service says: A rain forest without elephants is a barren place.
and seen an increasing number of elephant carcasses over the years say co-authors Mr. Rostand Aba'a of the Gabon National parks Service and Mr. Marc Ella Akou of WWF Gabon.
and the important pollinator services they provide. The results are published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
and services will suffer not benefit and the same is true for the economies of poor nations
or energy--of moving from one step to another in a complex logistical operation or they could represent the strength of the correlations between the movie preferences of customers of an online video service.
The bees still have food plants are still getting pollinator service. But the service has declined the network's structure is weaker
and its response to future perturbations much less certain she said. The study the first to look at human disruption of plant-pollinator networks through the lens of historical data appears in the Feb 28th online edition of Science.
A 40-year-old re-collection of Robertson's networkbut Burkle and Knight were aware that counting network links was a crude measure of pollination services.
and at worst can clog up pistils preventing fertilization the bee washings also pointed to a decline in pollination services.
but that increased service by wild insects would help. Flowers of most crops need to receive pollen before making seeds
Funding for the three censuses came from the United states Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) the Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) a US Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative for biodiversity
#Science synthesis to help guide land management of U s. forestsa team of more than a dozen scientists from the U s. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest (PSW)
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and more than 11000 concurrent out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) logged by Houston Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
They worked with Senegal's Forestry Service to torch 231 prescribed 10-by-10 meter plots (an area roughly the size of three football pitches) in Senegal at the end of the 2010 rainy season.
) The survey was funded by ANPN the CITES MIKE (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) Program and the United states Fish and Wildlife Service.
Speaking in a cabinet meeting the president urgently called for a strong coordinated and decisive response to this national emergency from all of the security and wildlife management services.
Richard Ruggiero Chief of the Branch of the Near east South Asia and Africa Division of International Conservation U s. Fish & Wildlife Service said:
and Wildlife Service biologist Pete Leary who said the chick appears healthy. Wisdom was banded first in 1956
and Wildlife Service superintendent for the Papahä naumokuä kea Marine National monument (Monument) which includes Midway Atoll NWR.
In their Nature Methods paper the researchers offer other scientists the tools they need to use an easier alternative-the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon Elastic EC2) a service that provides access to supercomputing via the Internet
and services that they have been called'water peoples.''Current per capita fish consumption in the Brazilian Amazon averages 94 kg/yr in riverine populations
The field work was done in 2010 with permission from U-M Grounds Services. In the nearby Natural sciences Building the research team used high-performance liquid chromatography to separate
Scientists from the U s. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) and the Pacific Southwest Region collaborated to monitor the distribution of fishers across a 7606-square-mile area in the southern Sierra nevada.
Zielinski noted that given the short time period of this study the effects of Forest Service management actions to protect fishers
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#Shedding light on role of Amazon forests in global carbon cycleearth's forests perform a well-known service to the planet absorbing a great deal of the carbon dioxide pollution emitted into the atmosphere from human activities.
This is the case according to researchers of the Regional Service of Agro-Food Research and development in their first monographic study tackling the global impact of this species. A study from the Regional Service of Agro-Food Research and development (SERIDA
Other issues recorded were related largely poverty including low incomes dependence on natural resources poor infrastructure and services and a lack of clean water together with soil erosion and weather.
but not all plant species will be affected negatively according to research conducted by the U s. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station.
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Invasive plants have negative impacts on plant communities at smaller scales--the scales that are crucial for necessary ecosystem services like water management and nutrient cycling.
and increase the abundances of these native species so that they can contribute to critical ecosystem services
In a new study by the U s. Forest Service the presence of trees was associated with human health.
For Geoffrey Donovan a research forester at the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station and his colleagues the loss of 100 million trees in the eastern and midwestern United states was unprecedented an opportunity to study the impact
and Jeffrey Prestemon Andrew Liebhold Demetrios Gatziolis and Megan Mao with the Forest Service's Southern Northern and Pacific Northwest Research Stations.
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It was as it turns out bugs says Robert Kennedy a remote sensing specialist at Boston University who consulted with U s. Forest Service experts to confirm his observations.
Kennedy's new way of viewing Landsat imagery has changed already how the Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest operates its yearly forest monitoring program that uses ground stations satellite imagery
when he partnered with the Forest Service --but also the slow and subtle changes that take place over many years including pulses of insect outbreaks.
That amount of cash which takes account of the costs of running an Ofsmoke regulator would be enough to fund smoking cessation services in England
They then looked at the operating costs of UK regulators for services such as water supply and the rail network to calculate the equivalent costs for the tobacco regulator--Ofsmoke
and smoking cessation services in England they write. Industry regulation would have numerous benefits they argue.
The U s. Forest Service and other agencies have established harvesting practices that greatly mitigate damage to forests caused by logging
and Thomas Veblen from CU-Boulder John Stednick from Colorado State university Charles Rhoades from the U s. Forest Service Jennifer Briggs and David Clow from the U s. Geological Survey
#Two new studies show why biodiversity is important for pollination services in California almondagricultural demand for pollination is growing more quickly than the supply of honey bees the dominant species managed for crop pollination.
A second study in the same system published in Global Change Biology found two other mechanisms by which pollinator diversity improved pollination service to almond.
In orchards with a diversity of pollinators pollination service was buffered to an extent by the wild bees.
therefore help sustain pollination service under extreme weather conditions when the service by honey bees declines.
The findings presented in the two articles highlight different ways biodiversity is important for pollination service.
and adding approximately $2 billion to the state economy according to National Agricultural Statistics Service data.
However a forest contributes more ecosystem services than timber production such as biological diversity carbon storage and berries.
By examining the role played by the occurrence of diverse tree species for six different ecosystem services (tree growth carbon storage berry production food for wildlife occurrence of dead wood
and biological diversity) the study demonstrates that all six services were positively related to the number of tree species. Different trees contribute to different services.
In order to attain more of all services forestry may thus need to make use of different tree species. Other studies of forests in Central europe the Mediterranean region
The study also investigated the relationship between the various ecosystem services. For example high tree growth appears to be negatively related to the production of both berries and food for wildlife and to the occurrence of dead wood.
Sometimes you have to consider trade-offs between different ecosystem services says Jon Moen from Ume㥠University.
and nature conservation stand to gain by promoting a greater variety of tree types thereby providing more diverse ecosystem services says Jan Bengtsson from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
and precipitation over long periods of time Abrams collaborated with Gregory Nowacki a scientist with the U s. Department of agriculture Forest Service office in Milwaukee on a study of the tolerance and sensitivity of trees to various factors.
The Kansas Forest Service is asking residents to help save trees by buying their firewood locally all to prevent the further spread of an invasive beetle killing millions of ash trees.
The emerald ash borer is a small green metallic beetle that was detected first in the United states in 2002 in Detroit said Ryan Armbrust a forest health specialist with the Kansas Forest Service.
If you suspect you have infected an tree located outside of the already confirmed locations contact the Kansas Forest Service Kansas Department of agriculture or K-State Research and Extension.
and her family--are turning to the University of Utah for liver transplant services. While the U s liver transplant program is one of the youngest in the region it has established itself as among the most successful.
Environmental flows for ecosystem services in rivers natural and novellast spring the Colorado river reached its delta for the first time in 16 years flowing into Pacific ocean at the Gulf of california after wetting 70 miles of long-dry channels through the Sonoran Desert.
and ecosystem services in mind and hands-off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river.
or support ecosystem services under current conditions rather than recreate a historical ecosystem. Achieving ecological objectives requires planning beyond minimum flows
and get the maximum value from ecosystem services river systems need to fluctuate in natural rhythms of volume velocity
Urban household consumption export of goods and services and infrastructure investment are the main factors contributing to accumulated water pollution since 2000.
and other tiny creatures to the structure of grasslands and the valuable ecosystem services they provide.
and carbon to cycle in ecosystems but there was little evidence that human-induced loss of these animals has effects at the level of the whole ecosystem on services such as agricultural yield said Mark Bradford an Associate professor at the Yale
and services and may bring about important drought-induced die off events. It is known however that biodiversity can promote forest ecosystem performance
in order to provide nutrition instruction to students and culinary advice to interested school food service workers.
and raised by their parents at the U s. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research center in Laurel Maryland were released on the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service's Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin.
The research led by U s. Forest Service Research Ecologist Dr. Christian Giardina with the agency's Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry Pacific Southwest Research Station with co-authors Drs.
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'but'Does it restore the ecosystem services?''which is really what should be important to us.
whether the recovering marshes were again providing the essential service of buffering the Cape's coast against the Atlantic ocean's waves.
Prevention and real restorationamong the many services that saltmarshes provide coastal protection is of particular importance as sea levels rise due to climate change Bertness said.
Based on this study's findings he said he is concerned that people just eyeballing the marshes may become complacent about the pace of this service's recovery.
what the U s. Department of agriculture Forest Service claims to be the most destructive forest pest ever seen in North america said Michael Domingue postdoctoral fellow in entomology Penn State.
According to the Forest Service the emerald ash borer was introduced to the United states from China in 2002.
Our laboratory has ongoing research with the USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service into remote-reporting Internet-based technologies
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service National park service Bureau of Land Management and other Interior agencies practice science-based landscape-scale conservation of these lands and their wildlife in partnership with scientists
Partnerships facilitated through the National Resource Conservation Service and the Forest Service have improved habitat for bird species
and other wildlife as well as promoting more outdoor recreation opportunities and boosting related sectors of the economy.
of which are listed as federally endangered by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service. The report's authors have deemed Hawaii the bird extinction capital of the world--no place has had more extinctions since human settlement.
the U s. Forest Service Ogden Utah; and Brown University Providence Rhode island. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by NASA.
This study shows that it can be a promising option to protect European forests from the impacts of climate change says IIASA Ecosystems Services
Because they are scavengers camel crickets may actually provide an important service in our basements
These are varieties that were improved genetically by NGOS or the national agricultural extension services. One of these varieties which was introduced almost 15 years ago seems to be more genetically diverse among the Chuka than with the other ethnic groups.
and the services they deliver. Nitrous oxide (N2o) is one of the principal greenhouse gases alongside carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4;
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The intensive population study was conducted in a project founded by George Wittemyer of Colorado State university with Save the Elephants and in association with the Kenya Wildlife Service.
and also the average size of each fire ballooning the number of on-call U s. Forest Service firefighters
With funding from the U s. Department of agriculture's U s. Forest Service Division Dr. Mahalingam and his collaborator UAH Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty member Dr. Babak Shotorban are currently supervising four doctoral
Dr. Mahalingam studied that more closely in association with the U s. Forest Service while at the University of California Riverside.
By showing how that land cover has changed over time scientists can determine how these changes impact our plant's environmental health said Nate Herold a NOAA physical scientist who directs the mapping effort at NOAA's Coastal Services Center
and Trends of Wetlands in the Coastal Watersheds of the Conterminous United states 2004 to 2009 an interagency supported analysis published by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA.
Davidson National Ocean Service senior advisor for coastal inundation and resilience science services. C-CAP data identify a wide variety of land cover changes that can intensify climate change risks-for example forest
and improve their resilience plans said Jeffrey L. Payne Ph d. acting director for NOAA's Coastal Services Center.
Tools like the Digital Coast are important components of NOAA's National Ocean Service's efforts to protect coastal resources and keep communities safe from coastal hazards by providing data tools
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