and a bit of a red herring, says Oliver Phillips, a tropical ecologist at the University of Leeds, UK.
an ecologist who studies the environmental safety of genetically modified crops at Fudan University in Shanghai. Critics note that discrepancies remain over the full details of the trial.
and Ecosystem Services set up in April 2012 to assess the state of the planet s ecosystems has selected a group of 25 Â international scientists
and ecology experts to safeguard the scientific quality and independence of its work. The appointments were made at a meeting ending on 27 january.
says John Vandermeer, an ecologist at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor, who has received"reports of devastation in Nicaragua, El salvador and Mexico.
Donald Boesch A biological oceanographer, Boesch is currently president of the Center for Environmental science at the University of Maryland in Cambridge,
where he studies ecosystem management and climate change. He was a member of the White house commission that investigated the 2010 Deepwater horizon oil spill.
and moths, says Robert Raguso, a chemical ecologist also at Cornell. We don t know if they can perceive charge differentials,
The process, known as nitrogen deposition, can do great damage to ecosystems, causing soil acidification, fertilizing harmful algal blooms
The researchers went on to assess how this had affected ecosystems. They found that the leaves of a range of herbaceous
says Mark Sutton, an environmental scientist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh, UK."
twigs and branches, says Bjã rn Lindahl, a fungal ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala.
and quite a surprise, says Sandra Holden, an ecosystems ecologist at the University of California, Irvine.
a forest ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences who wasn involved t in the study.
There is also the mammoth challenge of restoring the world or at least the ecosystems that the elephant relatives inhabited, among other hurdles.
says lead author Chris Huntingford, a climate modeller at the UK s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford.
says forest ecologist Daniel Nepstad, who directs the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in San francisco, "and the emerging view is that there is less sensitivity in tropical forests for climate-driven dieback.
and an expert in the epidemiology and ecology of avian flu viruses at the Free University of Brussels, says that
says Evan Delucia, an ecologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and one of the principal investigators in a FACE experiment on young pines in South carolina.
says Jeff Chambers, Â an ecologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. After two days of discussion, the group was able to converge on a basic design (see Gas ring.
says Marius Gilbert, an expert in the epidemiology and ecology of avian flu viruses at the Universitã libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.
Organic pollutants poison the roof of the worldtoxic chemicals are accumulating in the ecosystems of The himalayas and the Tibetan plateau,
says Surendra Singh, an ecologist at the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun.""It s the first study to quantify the accumulation of persistent organic pollutants in ecosystems in the region.
Persistent organic pollutants (POPS) are based carbon compounds that are resistant to break-down. Some originate from the burning of fuel or the processing of electronic waste,
the researchers also detected large amounts of POPS in various components of the ecosystems such as soil, grass trees and fish in The himalayas and in the Tibetan plateau, especially at the highest elevations."
"There is very little specific information on the source of this particular virus strain, its ecology or reservoir,
and ecosystems will somehow respond, says Philippe Ciais, a carbon-cycle researcher at the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental sciences in Gif-sur-Yvette, France."
"More storms will add an extra dimension to the problem. The meeting was organized by the CARBO-Extreme project, a  3. 3-million (US$4. 5-million) collaboration of 27 groups from 12  countries, funded by the European union.
of which are understood poorly of plants and ecosystems. Land plants create a huge carbon sink as they suck CO2 out of the air to build leaves
"In some ecosystems, small disturbances can have a large impact, he adds.""In others, even significant anomalies seem to cause only little harm.
an ecologist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria who oversees a grassland experiment. He simulated a series of droughts
"They are one of the big ecological mysteries out there, says Walt Koenig, a behavioural ecologist at the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca,
New york. They are also an entomological rarity. Of the thousands of cicada species known around the world, only the seven Magicicada species,
Laura Leon/Polaris/eyevineendangered ecosystems get listed The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on 8 may updated the criteria for its Red List of Ecosystems (D. Â A. Â Keith et
the new list ranks ecosystems using factors such as rate of shrinkage, disruption to wildlife and risk of ecosystem collapse.
The paper highlights the Aral sea in Central asia as an example of a collapsed ecosystem. River-diversion projects have caused the body of water, once the fourth-largest lake in the world,
But Dominique Berteaux, an Arctic ecologist at the University of Quebec in Rimouski, Canada, cautions that the team has not definitively proved a link between mercury contamination
but the study by Mikhail Beketov, an aquatic ecologist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany,
Emma Rosi-Marshall, an aquatic ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook
We are at a crisis point, with species loss on a global scale, especially in freshwater ecosystems.
Its publication on 14 june in The Journal of Applied Ecology comes soon after the European commission's April announcement of a two-year ban on three commonly used neonicotinoids over concerns that they are killing bees.
Both papers demonstrate the importance of conducting ecosystem assessments after pesticide use, says ecotoxicologist Ken Drouillard of the University of Windsor in Ontario,
Unfortunately during a global economic crisis, budget cuts come at the cost of ecosystem health monitoring.
Skeletons show rickets struck the Medici familyas the wealthy rulers of Tuscany and patrons of Leonardo Da vinci and Galileo,
The finding helps to explain prior reports that urban songbirds adopt more nocturnal lifestyles2-4 data that prompted Davide Dominoni, an ecologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany,
says Donald Strong, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis."It s a piece of ecological engineering that has gone out of control.
The threat of cordgrass is especially acute on Chongming Island, home on its eastern end to the 24,000-hectare Shanghai Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve declared a region of international ecological importance by the Ramsar Convention, a global wetland-conservation treaty.
Millions of migratory birds overwinter here, and it is a precious spawning and feeding ground for more than 60 Â fish species including the critically endangered Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis).
ecologist Li Bo at Fudan University and his colleagues found that if the plants are cut to the ground
says Wang Tianhou, a wetlands ecologist at East China Normal University in Shanghai.""It s unrealistic to conserve habitats without any compromise.
Losing a single pollinator species harms plantsremoving even a single bee species from an ecosystem has serious effects on plant reproduction,
Wielding his butterfly net, ecologist Berry Brosi of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, set out to test these models in the field with his colleague Heather Briggs from the University of California,
says ecologist Jane Memmott of the University of Bristol, UK. Memmott was a co-author of the simulation studies that the latest work contradicts,
But Memmott also notes that the latest study did not look at a whole ecosystem, and so should not serve as a basis for sweeping statements.
and Chemistry of the Earth s Interior. go. nature. com/9cbgun  21-25 july Current research in viral ecology,
This is a very different influenza ecosystem from other countries says Guan. Guan's team sampled wild birds and poultry markets around Shanghai in April,
says Camille Lebarbenchon, a viral ecologist at the University of Reunion Island in St Denis, France,
  But now a study led by Lu Baorong, an ecologist at Fudan University in Shanghai, challenges that view:
says Christopher Field, an ecologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, who was not involved with the work."
an ecologist at the Missouri Botanical garden in St louis. Smith presented a preliminary version of the plan this week at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Ecosystem productivity is rising at high latitudes, with a roughly 50%increase in the amount of carbon cycling through northern landscapes since the 1950s,
in spite of climate change, says Philippe Ciais, a carbon-cycle researcher at the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental sciences in Gif-sur-Yvette, France,
while confirming that ecosystem productivity has continued to rise in the north. The researchers used models to analyse the carbon cycle and atmospheric circulation,
But the current work suggests that the change in the seasonal CO2 signal is too big to be explained by ecosystem shifts that far north.
"A lot of ecological studies in animals have shown that a bad start in life, such as low food or high population density around the time that you re developing, is essentially bad for your fitness,
says Adam Hayward, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Sheffield, UK, and first author of the study."
published in Ecology Letters1, not only offer hope to farmers battling the beetle, but also provide an incentive to protect wildlife habitat:
says Matthew Johnson, a conservation ecologist at Humboldt State university in Arcata, California. He and his colleagues have previously found that birds help to protect the famous Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee crop from the borer beetle2,
That these reasons hold little water with the protesters highlights an emerging fissure among environmentalists and ecologists.
For some, a hardline devotion to preserving native ecosystems is giving way to a more postmodern idea of
says Richard Hobbs, an ecologist at the University of Western australia in Crawley.""What some people see as a weed-filled blot on the landscape,
People are increasingly moving away from the belief that a native ecosystem is always best.
That idea grates with many restoration ecologists, says Hobbs. Yet studies increasingly suggest that altered ecosystems need not be bad for biodiversity or ecosystem function.
with altered ecosystems such as Mount Sutro s providing a case in point. In the late 1880s, Adolph Sutro, a mayor of San francisco, planted the treeless hill with imported blue gum eucalyptus,
an ecologist at Stanford university in California who has been publicly critical of UCSF s management plans,
says that Mount Sutro has given long since way to a completely new ecosystem.""Restoring it to an original state would be borderline impossible,
Resistance to such a heretical idea runs deep among ecologists, but growing numbers are embracing altered ecosystems in the name of pragmatism."
"You can reach more win-win situations if you don t insist on purity, says Katharine Suding, an ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley,
who specializes in restoring human-affected areas.""It doesn t have to be a natural versus nonnatural dichotomy.
Ecologists have documented already such a shift in many wild species, including some birds and insects1, 2,
or pesticide resistance, says ecologist Dan Bebber of the University of Exeter, UK, who led the new study.
but the ecological and health effects of fertilizer chemicals raise serious concerns. China in particular, is facing a major pollution problem from overuse of nitrogen fertilizer,
Field trials to assess the ecological efficiency of organic and chemical fertilizers in different geographic and climatic settings are under way in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania.
and most economical use of fertilizers a practice that would help to avoid the ecological and monetary costs of fertilizer overuse."
says Johannes  Kotschi, a soil scientist at the Association for Agriculture and Ecology in Marburg, Germany,
So ecologist Rafael Barbieri, a graduate student in the lab of Philip Lester at Victoria University of Wellington, wondered
as well as the leaves and pollen of an entire fossilized ecosystem. The goal of the US$970, 000 drilling project is to stitch together a complete picture of most of the middle and late Triassic period, a turbulent interval that saw both a mass-extinction event and the emergence of dinosaurs.
researching invasive mechanisms and ecological impact, and developing control technologies. This has led to an"explosion of research
says Wan Fanghao, an ecologist at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Institute of Plant Protection in Beijing.
and its Chinese fungal variant, says Daniel Simberloff, an ecologist at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville."
says Helen Roy, an ecological entomologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, UK.
Behavioural ecologist Peter Wrege directs the Elephant Listening Project. Nature interviewed behavioural ecologist Peter Wrege of the The Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New york,
who directs the project, which is funded largely by the US Fish and Wildlife Service programme Wildlife Without Borders.
it is possible to monitor aspects of its ecology and behaviour by placing efficient recorders in multiple,
Our chemical ecology group which is led by chemist John Pickett is world leading. The idea of introducing aphid alarm pheromones into wheat to protect it against aphid attack that comes out of that group.
The spatial ecologists have done remarkable work on monitoring the movement of a whole range of insects using horizontal and vertical radar to follow migration paths.
would give enormous ecological benefit, because it would avoid using insecticides in widespread spraying. Definitely.
but only in areas where ecosystems are deemed especially vulnerable. The move disappointed campaigners who have pushed for a total ban on this method of fishing,
Francisco Estrada, an ecological economist at the Free University in Amsterdam, and his colleagues analysed annual temperature data collected from 1850 to 2010,
a team of Chinese ecologists has made a discovery that could halt the march of the nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus).
says Nicolas Vuichard, an ecosystem researcher at the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental sciences in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
"It s a real paradigm shift in plant ecology, says company founder and plant biologist Rusty Rodriguez."
ecologists are getting to grips with plant microbiomes. The result is powerful. Instead of having to find
a metric used in ecology to position species in the food chain. The metric puts plants and algae,
Calculating human trophic levels reveals our place in the ecosystem and can help scientists to understand human impact on energy consumption and resource strength.
we ll start to have a bigger impact on ecosystems, says Bonhommeau
Seven days: 24-30 january 2014eu climate package The European commission unveiled a package of climate and energy proposals on 22 Â January, with targets for 2030.
A study in the humid rainforests of Belize shows that plant-killing fungi can help preserve diversity in such ecosystems.
provides experimental support for a leading ecological hypothesis on why any given plant species does not take over in species-rich forests.
says Keith Clay, a plant ecologist at Indiana University in Bloomington, who was not involved with the study."
Owen Lewis, an ecologist at the University of Oxford, UK, and his colleagues decided to test the hypothesis experimentally.
an ecologist at Washington University in St louis, Missouri, adds that the Belize study could inform forest-restoration efforts by highlighting the importance of fungi in the soil."
and an ecosystem that is unravelling, says Louisa Willcox, the Northern Rockies representative at the Center for Biological Diversity in Livingston, Montana.
says David Mattson, an ecologist at Yale university in New haven, Connecticut. A reliance on meat heightens the risk that adult bears will come into contact with humans,
but aren t. Behavioural ecologist Tanya Latty of the University of Sydney, Australia, who has observed violations of IIA in the food choices of a slime mould4,
says Nathan Stephenson, an ecologist at the US Geological Survey in Three Rivers, California, and the first author of the study, which appears today in Nature1."
Noah Baker spoke about the findings with Nathan Stephenson, an ecologist at the US Geological Survey.
says Maurizio Mencuccini, a forest ecologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK. The younger trees may grow faster on a relative scale,
Kimball has worked also as an assistant professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,
This is the conclusion of two reports published on 20 Â February detailing the state of the continent s marine ecosystems.
says lead author Michael Worobey, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
ecologists have watched wolf and moose populations on Isle Royale in Lake superior wax and wane in response to each other, disease and the weather.
 That would put an end to a study that has provided textbook ecology lessons for generations.
when wolf numbers plummet, moose populations tend to soar (see Ecosystem in flux. And it has offered insights into wolf behaviour, moose physiology,
and effect in the ecosystem has been rendered much easier by isolation from the mainland s human and animal populations.
John Vucetich/Rolf Petersonjohn Vucetich, co-leader of the project and an ecologist at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, says that the need for an influx of genes is becoming urgent.
According to work led by Vucetich and Rolf Peterson, also an ecologist at Michigan Technological University, this might explain why the number of moose needed to support a given number of wolves has increased:
) For Vucetich, genetic rescue is required not so much to maintain the continuity of the study as to preserve the ecosystem.
which is a really basic component of a boreal forest ecosystem.""A genetic rescue could set a precedent for intervention in other parks.
the argument that leaving the wolves alone would be allowing nature to take its course does not sway most ecologists.
Water returns to arid Colorado river deltaone of North america s most iconic rivers is about to undergo an unprecedented experiment in ecological engineering.
as well as a rare opportunity for ecologists worldwide to watch what happens. The mighty Colorado rises on the western slope of the Rocky mountains
ecologists will count saplings and determine whether that new habitat is attracting birds. The experiment could benefit the almost 400 bird species that live in the delta,
says Osvel Hinojosa Huerta, an ecologist with Pronatura Noroeste, a conservation group with offices in San luis R Â o Colorado, Mexico.
says Patrick Shafroth, a plant ecologist with the US Geological Survey in Fort Collins, Colorado.
says John Schmidt, an ecologist at Utah State university in Logan, who also heads the US Geological Survey s Grand canyon Monitoring and Research center in Flagstaff, Arizona.
when it comes to wolves in general but more specifically to their recovery ecology history population status and more.
We are a part of an ecosystem that changes -and always will change. Human kind have only been here for such a short time that we have not really a historical tradition of seing how much things have changed.
this is an animal that's vital to the ecosystem...What? The Earth wouldn't even blink
The short answer is that we don't know much about orgasms in other species--in fact scientists are still studying the significance/evolution of female orgasms in humans Marlene Zuk a professor of ecology evolution
Earthquake News Ecology compassthe end of the world as we know it could come in any number of ways depending on who you ask.
Echoviren exposes an ecosystem of dynamic natural and unnatural interventions: the interplay of man and nature moderated by technology over the centuries.
Today according to the Global Footprint Network more than 80 percent of the world's population lives in countries that use more than their ecosystems can renew.
and Egypt 2. 4. China's ecological footprint is the largest (they would need 2. 5 Chinas to accommodate their population)--though the per capita footprint is smaller than many European or North american countries.
To calculate the date the Global Footprint Network figures out how many days of a particular year the Earth's biocapacity can provide for the total ecological footprint.
So world biocapacity divided by world ecological footprint times 365 equals Earth Overshoot Day. The think tank calculates biocapacity by looking at the amount of productive area (both land
A country has an ecological reserve if its footprint is smaller than its biocapacity and likewise if its footprint exceeds biocapacity it is an ecological debtor.
The Global Footprint Network notes that the date is an approximation. The precision of the exact date is limited by aggregated country datasets
Frostty Global Footprint Network bases their conclusions on what they call ecological footprint and biocapacity.
Ecological footprint is what GFN decides the population should be to fit the biocapacity of a given country.
And GFN doesn't need to worry about Japan's ecological-footpring-to-biocapacity ratio much longer
because as we've seen time and again tweaking with ecosystems can have unexpected very consequences. The study appears in the journal Earth System Dynamics.
An ecological disaster usually follows man's attempt to fix nature. Dr. Liet Kyens would be very proud of this research...
a new study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology finds that the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone has had a positive effect on the population of...
Putting together the puzzle pieces of a diverse ecosystem like Yellowstone is tricky; shooting wolves is like pulling out a piece of an enormous Jenga game.
This study looks at how the wolf affects the ecosystem as a whole and as we thought wolves are an essential part of the health of Yellowstone.
or care how ecosystems work. Neither does Friends of the Yellowstone Elk Herd a pro-hunting organization.
or care how ecosystems work. Great writing? How about firing the undergrads and hiring actual writers?
the guy who literally claims to know more about ecosystems than the ENTIRE STATE OF WYOMING holds a degree in...
or care how ecosystems work (incidentally you clearly don't either) maybe we wouldn't all sound like kindergartners on the playground arguing over who knows more.
and animals (and conservation models and ecological history and etc. etc.)that they live with every day.
This suggests that beavers play an important role in keeping the ecosystem resilient against climate change drought and wildfire the study notes.
and think Why ditch my comfortable luxurious iphone ecosystem for a chintzy plastic Samsung phone with desperately overstuffed featuresets?
A smartphone ecosystem is not unlike a neighborhood: when that 31 percent percent of $75000+households rises to 40 percent you can bet the New yorker will hurry a little bit harder to bring its digital magazine to Android.
It threatens a tree that's native to the U k. and important to ecosystems there.
On the road to Economic Social and Ecological Decay<p>http://www. greenleft. org. au/node/49946<p>The car is a huge devourer of space âÂ
The Magicicada attack is an unusual event in the northeastern ecosystem; there are very few events in the lives of flora
So the ecosystem doesn't depend on the cicadas the same way some animals may rely on certain seasonal fruits
Many complimentary relationships in ecology have different cues to start. So an earlier blooming season for plants may not necessarily mean an earlier end to hibernation to pollinators.
So many in the ecology movement are centered self egotistical and will lie just to achieve what they think should be.
You're concerned about the ecologists lining their pockets to clean up the Earth but aren't concerned about the oil
Sure lets destroy the ecosystems of ridges and mountain tops because we never see it anyway.
The paper has been accepted for publication in the journal Environmental science & Technology and it comes in the same week that Hansen 72 said he will retire.
and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima in which the amount of cancers caused by radiation in our food
and arrangement of the vegetation in a forest and how it functions as an ecosystem.
Ecologists and animal welfare agencies could use them to hunt down poachers and monitor savannah wildlife.
Myself I see the benefits to the local ecosystem of having wolves present to keep the populations of other species in check.
Researchers might use the device to study honeybee ecology. TIME: 3 monthscost: $110mapping energy leaks in poorly insulated homes no longer requires hiring a technician.
and peatland destruction ecosystems that would otherwise be storing much more carbon than the palm plantations that replace them.
The study was published this week in the journal Ecology Letters and authored by researcher Kevin Kohl and colleagues at the University of Utah
and eradication effort quickly to avoid devastation of a sensitive island ecosystem and a culture so tied to the palm tree e
Ecologists hope those seeds will take root in the newly-wetted sand and drive out invasive salt cedars that have taken over.
Hydrologists and ecologists will monitor where the water goes and how trees and birds react.
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