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Currently, green space and street plantings are relatively similar throughout the Western world, regardless of differences in local climate, geography, and natural history.
Many animals and plants have evolved to occupy specific geographical niches such as islands or mountain lakes.
Headed by computer scientist and geographer Muki Haklay and anthropologist Jerome Lewis the idea is to allow any community, regardless of their literacy to start, run,
said Kwak Young-soon, social welfare director for Mapo District, one of Seouls 25 geographic districts.
are defined by interests#and activities#rather than geography#:#Beijing has a lot in common with New york, London, or Mumbai.
including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you
For example, we may share geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services.#
and that their surveyed geographic ranges have contracted by 23 percent to 87 percent,##they wrote.
Below, via Edible Geography s Nicola Twilley, are ranked the results of that endeavor. These are#per the eminent body of the Royal Society#the top 20 innovations in food and drink,
it will be similar to the way maps helped us frame our thinking about world geography.
This would be a new form of geography#for humanity. 4.)Whole Earth Plant Genealogy Project Same as#3
A host of other industries followed#eading to the ongoing outsourcing boom#s containers made geography nearly irrelevant.
Part of the solution lies in improved links between African countries whose postcolonial borders often don t make geographic sense and place artificial barriers between areas of surplus food production and areas of deficit.
water walk as a miracle in 2006 Florida State university Professor of Oceanography Doron Nof came up with a much simpler explanation:<
Rivers were thought once of as passive pipes study co-author Jeffrey Richey a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle said in a statement.
People thought this was one of the components that just got dumped into the ocean Nick Ward a doctoral student in oceanography at the University of Washington
and ocean perspectives Karen Heywood a professor of physical oceanography at the University of East Anglia in the U k. and principal investigator of one of the istar program's ocean investigations said in a statement.
Changes in sea ice affect ocean circulation which in turn affects atmospheric circulation that then impacts the globe said Bruce Forbes a geographer at the Arctic Center at the University of Lapland in Finland who was involved not in the study.
The Andean collection allowed the researchers to study how the gene responsible for turning on AT2 production varies depending on a plant's geographic location.
According to this research a study published in 2006 by a team led by A l. Westerlingof the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
and traditions vary by geography and the more than 50 ethnic groups that reside in this country of 1. 34 billion people.
Food Like other aspects of Chinese life cuisine is influenced heavily by geography and ethnic diversity.
and we're seeing it in many different facets of fire activity study co-author Philip Dennison a geographer at the University of Utah said Tuesday (Dec 10) here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
For example if used in combination with other methods that use DNA to determine the geographical origin of an ivory sample the carbon-14 dating technique could help investigators determine how recently hotspots for elephant poaching have been active.
The newfound site is the oldest archaeological site in southern and western Amazonia said researcher Umberto Lombardo a geographer at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
 Primates though are sophisticated more cartographers: the monkeys were able to activate their grid cells simply by looking around.
and together with geographer Kristine Delong of Louisiana State university set out to discover the site's secrets.
Back in the twenties fires came through the area every eight to ten years keeping the forests more open according to U s. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station Geographer and Researcher Carl Skinner.
and hydrogen in water vary with geography on a continental scale and so because the stable isotope ratios in drinking water get incorporated into hair a record of travel history is revealed by looking at the isotope composition of scalp hair.
but locally relevant said Matt Hansen a geographer at the University of Maryland who led the mapping effort.
Levels of CO2 haven't been that high since the Pliocene epoch between 3 million and 5 million years ago according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The last time Earth's atmospheric levels of CO2 reached 400 ppm was during the Pliocene epoch between 5 million and 3 million years ago according to the University of California San diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Wild Bactrian camels (Camelus ferus) were discovered in 1878 by Nikolai Prejevalsky a Russian geographer who explored Mongolia and Tibet.
Vanishing wildflowers Between 10000 and 15000 years ago forbs declined in the Arctic study co-author Mary E. Edwards a physical geographer at the University of Southampton in England wrote in an email.
and cross-referencing their data with environmental niche models that predict the geographic distribution of species the scientists determined their Ice age specimens belonged to Megachile gentilis a bee species that still exists today.
and projected their habitats onto a geographic map Holden said. They found essentially that M. gentilis was far more likely than M. onobrychidis to have lived in the La Brea area 23000 to 40000 years ago (the approximate age of the excavated nest cells.
The reasons were part technological and part geographical: In a world where agriculture was on the rise
either because of geographical barriers such as Egypt's desert or practical ones such as the need to access to irrigation people have to put up with more abuse of power from their leaders.
She and her collaborators also conducted a survey of gut symbionts in three bumblebee species to determine whether environmental factors especially agricultural management or geographic location affected symbiont communities.
and videos as well as chart the geographic coordinates of deforestation or degradation occurring within threatened areas said Gabriel Ribenboim a researcher who's leading the project for FAS.
Last month Steig and colleagues published a paper in the journal Science reporting that Pine Island Glacier's retreat slowed significantly in 2012 due to oceanographic changes related to La Niã a
and that the oceanographic conditions would need to be much colder than it was started before it its retreat to maintain stability Durand said.
while scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US found the same Malassezia-like species from the Peru Trench in the Pacific ocean.
Monitoring Forests in Near Real-time Mapping deforestation The fine-grained map comes from the work of Matt Hansen a geographer at the University of Maryland
However in seeking to test this idea with temperature data oceanographer Xianyao Chen of the Ocean University of China in Qingdao
Work pioneered by Professor Sam Wasser at the University of Washington uses DNA profiling from seized ivory to trace it back to the geographical location within Africa from which the ivory was taken once roamed.
So some DNA types become much more common than others in defined geographical ranges which means that using similar DNA profiling techniques to those used in human forensic science the DNA from ivory provides a map leading back to the geographic area where those subpopulations with similar DNA profiles are found.
or minus 80 years said Samuel Munoz lead study author and a geographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
#Developing World Boasts Leading Women Conservationists (Op-Ed) Danielle Labruna is a geographic information systems specialist in the Conservation Support Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS.
As a geography teacher she was concerned about climate change and wanted to conserve Uganda's forests
Whether Nobel laureate or geography teacher women have made significant contributions to the planet and these accomplishments should make the world proud
Armed with a stack of topographic maps for plotting nests a stack of datasheets for recording survey information
In the new study researchers analyzed the hydrologic topographic climatic and sedimentary features of Mummy Lake and the surrounding cliff area.
How each community responds depends on its unique mix of people and geography. This story is part of a Climate Central series that looks at how communities are facing the challenges ahead.
Wayne Trivelpiece an Antarctic penguin researcher with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric administration's Southwest Fisheries science Center based in La jolla Calif. agrees that climate change is a serious threat to these and other penguin populations around the world.
and habitat loss and that a greater understanding of its distribution and abundance is needed throughout its geographic range.
They have helped also rediscover species thought to be locally extinct or outside their known geographical range.
However impoverished people tend to move into such territory in search of resources. 10 Deadly Diseases That Hopped Across Species Poverty drives people to expand their range of activities to stay alive plunging deeper into the forest to expand the geographic as well as species
it suggests that regrowth is still in the geographic minority compared to deforestation and logging.
and the difficulty in obtaining local geographical information, says Raymond Mccord, an ecologist at the Oak ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,
a geographer at the World bank in WASHINGTON DC, is to produce better estimates for carbon emissions from deforestation.
Nature Newsbiological oceanographer Andrew Pershing wants carbon credits for whale conservation. That's because whales, he says,
if isotope values varied by geography or if anyone was putting in sweeteners, says Peck.
and his colleagues are compiling a database of genetic markers to verify the geographic origins of black truffle populations.
an ecologist at the Beijing-based Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, examined phosphate run off into Lake Tai,
This information was fed then into a computer-based geographical information system to produce a map of the different locations
and on a par with these other areas of intellectual development, says Timothy Beach, a physical geographer at Georgetown University in WASHINGTON DC,
he and his wife, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, a physical geographer specializing in water quality from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia,
and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission based in Paris. The effort faces some sizeable scientific hurdles.
Oceanographer Christoph Heinze at the University of Bergen, Norway, points out that the carbon sequestration abilities of wetland plants are
Koh's study is useful because of its large geographical focus. Such recent reliable information has not been available for the entire region until now
However, the numbers still only represent rough estimates, owing to a lack of information about geographic variation in soil depth,
Archaeologist Brendan Foley of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts and geneticist Maria Hansson of Lund University, Sweden, retrieved DNA from nine amphorae the storage containers
and we re losing time, says Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La  Jolla, California,
says Holly Gibbs, an environmental geographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.""I don't know that it's a sea change yet,
Nature also looked at where the sequences come from (see The geography of sampling. The picture that emerges is worse than some experts had thought.
"Proper geographic representation is lacking, says van der Werf, as is sustained surveillance. This results in large gaps in data, she says,
Led by geographer Ian Prosser, who is science director of the CSIRO Flagship research programme Water for a Healthy Country, a group of hydrologists, ecologists,
and emerging diseases follow different geographical patterns, says Grace, a finding that conflicts with the idea held by many scientists that the crucible of disease emergence is biodiversity hotspots,
The researchers also found some unexpected geographical patterns.""Counter to popular explanations, diversification rate does not vary with latitude,
Both techniques depend on the peculiarities of local geography and badger populations, but they reflect the range of approaches that can be supported by the scientific evidence.
Ancient scourge The zombifying fungus's vast geographic distribution also hints at the possibility that it has been possessing ants at least
Donald Boesch A biological oceanographer, Boesch is currently president of the Center for Environmental science at the University of Maryland in Cambridge,
and the virus has expanded its geographical range to neighbouring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, as well as Beijing in the north and Henan in the centre of the country.
H7n9 bird flu poised to spreadthe H7n9 avian flu virus greatly expanded its geographical range over the weekend,
or what the geographic extent is, says Lipsitch, It looks as though it will be at least as challenging as H5n1
Deep-sea dive The film-maker James cameron is donating his deep-sea submersible to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,
what was transported, says says Brendan Foley, a maritime archaeologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,
says study co-author Ralph Keeling, a geochemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La jolla, California,
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.
He told the Wildphotos conference, held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 12-13 october
a geographer at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern europe in Halle, Germany,
Kirsten de Beurs, a geographer at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, has visited often the region,
and its geographical expansion is a reminder of the threat beyond China. Furthermore, although case numbers have shown signs of dropping in the past two weeks,
or So that's actually pretty good says Cary Mock a geography professor at the University of South carolina.
It does not coincide with the geographic poles the axis on which the Earth spins but it is close.
Out of sight the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) an oceanographic workhorse called a Remus begins gliding through the lagoon in a pattern that resembles the long linear passes of a mowed lawn.
For a group like Bentprop the use of advanced oceanographic instruments is a huge technological leap forward
The vehicles come from the University of California San diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Delaware
The funding enables oceanographers to test new technologies while helping Bentprop locate WORLD WAR II airmen an effort they named Project Recover.
Board shorts and sandals make the athletic oceanographer look more surfer than scientist he even brought a board on the research vessel for
The oceanographic community is engineering new sensors for them and having them do smarter things during their searches.
With the oceanographers'help he hopes Bentprop could find it. On land our major technology was a machete
The oceanographic team's official command center in Palau is on the second floor of the Coral reef Research Foundation
As they wait for their food Mark Moline an oceanographer from the University of Delaware opens a Toughbook laptop
The Echoscope or multibeam volume imaging sonar does enabling oceanographers to map topography accurately and in high enough resolution to distinguish man-made objects.
Terrill describes it as the oceanographic seafloor-mapping equivalent of ultrasound sonar used to look inside the human body.
Oceanographers and biologists studying living structures such as coral reefs could also benefit from it; 3-D models would enable them to detect how ocean acidification
hope you don't mind a bit of geographical lesson don't want to be assuming after all. The foks of the Indus Civilization were a few among the Bronze age peoples to have codified a standard system of weights and measures.
That's not that long ago in geographic terms. A few species--Dr. Flynn specifically named the various species of spider monkey--were hardy enough to move north along the isthmus
Using GIS (geographic information system) by plotting the location of strong non-iodizing sources and mapping their frequencies and power outputs one is able to see a correlation within a set radius of bee populations affected by theses sources of non-iodizing radiation.
Both programs are based at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San diego (La jolla) California. Scripps Data Released January 3 2013:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration (NOAA. Monthly data is posted below.
and Atmospheric administration (NOAA) Data Notesat CO2NOW. org data for March 1958-April 1974 was obtained by Charles David Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps).
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography also maintains a CO2 monitoring program at the Mauna loa Observatory. Click here to access the Scripps data for the Mauna loa Observatory.
Annual data for 2012 was posted first January 3 2013 by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the United states
and releasing to the world high-resolution geographic imaging data collected via the space shuttle program. Today elevation data for Africa at a 30-meter resolution is being released--supplanting past publicly available data at a 90-meter resolution.
but as the Lone Star tick geographical distribution increases I think it s going to be a regional epidemic in many areas.
Work pioneered by Professor Sam Wasser at the University of Washington uses DNA profiling from seized ivory to trace it back to the geographical location within Africa from which the ivory was taken once roamed.
So some DNA types become much more common than others in defined geographical ranges which means that using similar DNA profiling techniques to those used in human forensic science the DNA from ivory provides a map leading back to the geographic area where those subpopulations with similar DNA profiles are found.
Even 10 percent is brutal says marine physicist Tim Barnett of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
At this writing there is a convention in Moscow attended by most of the world's profound students and authorities in oceanography oceanology seismology zoology.
Publlished this week in the journal Nature the strategies favor diverse approaches tailored to local conditions rather than a universal approach that ignores local cultures geographies economies and environmental realities.
Geographical distribution and geological relations of extinct to recent inhabitants of South america first led me to the subject:
Resequencing of individual Amborella plants across the species'range reveals geographic structure with conservation implications plus evidence of a recent major genetic bottleneck noted Pam Soltis of the University of Florida.
Dr Simon Gosling from the School of Geography at The University of Nottingham co-authored four papers in this unique global collaboration.
of which will be uploaded to geographical information system for disease mapping and also feed into breeding programmes. This approach has broad application
Geographer Thorsten Balke studied the establishment of mangroves: how do the seedlings get to the tidal flat and
#Researchers find forests with bigger potential for carbon creditusing satellite images researchers at the Center of Geography
One of the most surprising things that we found was that primates with wide geographic ranges do not necessarily consume a wider diversity of fruits as expected perhaps
The findings suggest that geographic coordination of vampire bat control efforts in Latin america--taking into account the interconnectedness of seemingly isolated colonies--might reduce transmission to humans and domestic animals.
and locally relevant says University of Maryland Professor of Geographical Sciences Matthew Hansen team leader and corresponding author on the Science paper.
and five other UMD geographical science researchers drew on the decades-long UMD experience in the use of satellite data to measure changes in forest and other types of land cover.
The team combined field surveys with airborne mapping and high-resolution satellite monitoring to show that the geographic extent of mining has increased 400%from 1999 to 2012
and George Hurtt a professor of geographical sciences at the University of Maryland. After the 1940s and 1950s if you look at the land-use change trajectory it's been slowed down in the expansion of agriculture
because it shows that drought is a better predictor of spruce beetle outbreaks in northern Colorado than temperature alone said lead study author Sarah Hart a CU-Boulder doctoral student in geography.
It was interesting that drought was a better predictor for spruce beetle outbreaks than temperature said Hart of the geography department.
Co-authors include CU-Boulder geography Professor Thomas Veblen; former CU-Boulder graduate student Karen Eisenhart now at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania;
and the fertilizer plant explosion in West Texas those spaces are becoming smaller in geography
By contrast with the usual expectations this resistance is inherited as a dominant trait a characteristic that may have contributed to its rapid geographical expansion.
#Climate change to shift Kenyas breadbasketskenyan farmers and agriculture officials need to prepare for a possible geographic shift in maize production as climate change threatens to make some areas of the country much less productive for cultivation
Nearly 80 percent of the species aren't yet shifting their geographic distributions to higher latitudes.
and aerosols have very distinct properties their effects on spatial patterns of rainfall change are surprisingly similar according to new research from the University of Hawaii at Manoa's International Pacific Research center (IPRC) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Our studies on other African and Middle Eastern populations show quite different geographic distributions with overlap in Ethiopia suggesting that their origins are all different
and together with the large geographic separation the differences were sufficient for the recognition of 2 new African genera now named Bergbambos and Oldeania after their local names in the Afrikaans and Maasai languages.
and topographical maps that identify steep slopes and watersheds. After the Silver Fire for example they identified severely burned areas upstream of a community campgrounds and forest roads.
and other human activities according to a study led by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO).
Because of the state's geographic location and climate California is considered particularly vulnerable to introduction and establishment of tropical fruit-fly populations.
and a simplification of their cultural traditions and their relationship with wildlife a team of researchers led by a University of Colorado Boulder geographer has concluded.
and we had a lot of ethnographic background to correct that said Mara J. Goldman the assistant professor of geography at CU-Boulder who led the study.
and Jennifer Perry a CU-Boulder geography alumna now studying law at the university. Goldman and her fellow researchers conducted 246 in depth interviews of Tanzanian and Kenyan Maasai between 2004 and 2008.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography UC San diego paleobiologist Richard Norris and colleagues show that the ancient greenhouse world had few large reefs a poorly oxygenated ocean tropical surface waters
Co-authors of the review are Sandra Kirtland-Turner of Scripps Oceanography Pincelli Hull of Yale university and Andy Ridgwell of the University of Bristol in the United kingdom. Story Source:
or geographic adaptations to survive. Although some of the changes the planet will experience in the next few decades are baked already into the system how different the climate looks at the end of the 21st century will depend largely on how humans respond.
This work was an international collaboration between the School of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania in Hobart Australia;
The study is based on data from the Alien Forest Pest Explorer a web tool that gives users a county-by-county look at geographical distributions of damaging forest invasive pests throughout the nation.
the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences University of British columbia the University of Nevada Las vegas the University of Western Greece Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
and how many flowers they produce is one vital sign of their health said Pau an assistant professor in Florida State's Department of Geography.
and Roger Revelle Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California at San diego. This suggests that many models underestimate the sensitivity to radiative perturbations in greenhouse gases.
and summarizes the influence of these geographic factors on long-term population persistence. The current study applied this metric to 127 forest-dependent passerine birds inhabiting the Atlantic Forest of Brazil an area that has lost over 90 percent of its original forest.
or distort the apparent relationship between the distribution of the species and eco-geographical factors.
and geographic footprint has come under great pressure regarding its social and environmental impact. In response companies have started to take account of their products'greenhouse-gas contributions in part by measuring the amount of carbon dioxide associated with every process throughout a product's lifecycle.
because both temperature and day length are relatively constant all year round due to geographical proximity to the equator.
Fire climate sets atmospheric conditions for fire activity in longer time frames and larger geographic scales.
Considering that these populations occur over extremely small geographic ranges it is possible that many tropical forest lizards
The research was the result of a two-year collaboration between Dr Huw Barton from the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester and Dr Xiaoyan Yang Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural resources
Over the coming year Khoury will analyze the geographic distributions of the plants in the list determine
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