Western in Biological News

Restoring a natural root signal helps to fight a major corn pest

... nematodes that attack and kill larvae of the western corn rootworm, a voracious root pest. In field ... Early Edition, August 3𔃅, 2009) The western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) is ... the effectiveness of nematodes in controlling western corn rootworm", Hiltpold reports. In rows with ...

Wildfires set to increase 50 percent by 2050

... deterioration of the air quality in the western United States due to greater presence of smoke. ... predict the area burned in each ecosystem in the western US. Significantly, the research also predicts a 40% increase in the western United States in the concentration of tiny soot ...

New theory gives more precise estimates of large-scale biodiversity

... studied on both the small and large scale - the western Ghats mountain range of India overlooking the ... hotspot" of nearly 60,000 square kilometers, the western Ghats are partially protected and have been ... discovered each year, scientists guess that the western Ghats contain between 1,000 and 1,100 species in ...

International team of students and scientists on month-long field course in Siberian Arctic

... by far the largest share of the Arctic. Yet few western scientists, much less students, ever get the ... St. Olaf College, University of Nevada Reno, western Washington University, and Yakustk State University. Andy Bunn, a faculty member at western Washington University, comments, "I did not ...

In the warming West, climate most significant factor in fanning wildfires' flames

... increase in area burned by wildfires in the western United States is a product not of higher ... most in accounting for large wildfires in the western United States is how climate influences the build ... from 1916 to 2003 for 19 ecosystem types in 11 western States to construct models of total wildfire area ...

New discovery suggests mammoths survived in Britain until 14,000 years ago

... recent evidence of woolly mammoths in North western Europe publishes today in the Geological Journal ... believed to have become extinct in North western Europe about 21,000 years ago during the main ice ... bones are the latest record of mammoths in North western Europe they not only prove that the species ...

'Honey bee health' of concern at Western Apicultural Society conference

... pollinator experts will address the 31st annual western Apicultural Society (WAS) Conference, set Aug. ... draws its membership from beekeepers throughout western North America, but all interested persons ... will discuss "Native Bees in Crop Production in western States." On Thursday morning, Aug. 20, ...

Spring fishing season arrives... and with it, amphibian diseases

... Calif., Collins screened tiger salamanders in the western U.S. bait trade for both ranaviruses and Bd, and ... "The tiger salamander bait trade in the western U.S. is a good model for understanding the ... regulated or controlled in most areas of the western United States," says Picco, "there's no ...

Magnetic nano-'shepherds' organize cells

... team of investigators from Duke University, Case western Reserve University and the University of ... biomedical engineering graduate student at Case western and Erb's sister, co-authored a paper appearing ... Engineering and Orthopedic Surgery at Case western and senior author of the paper. "The next step is ...

New tracking tags are providing fish-eye views of ways to manage depressed fisheries

... ground in the Mediterranean, and another in the western basin, with a breeding ground in the Gulf of ... stocks are not sustainably harvested, and the western population has declined by roughly 90 percent ... undermined the quotas and recovery plans for the western basin stock. With regard to Pacific salmon, ...

Case Western Reserve researchers develop 'wireless' activation of brain circuits

... electrode. But a team of researchers at Case western Reserve University is going "wireless." And ... in the neurosciences department in the Case western Reserve School of Medicine and Clemens Burda, an ... between the two departments," says Burda. "Case western Reserve is unusual in having its medical school ...

Wildlife Conservation Society helps Cameroon create new national park

... containing the most northern population of western lowland gorillas. "Deng Deng National Park is ... and protects the Cross River gorilla. The western lowland gorilla is the most populous of the four ... year, WCS scientists discovered more than 125,000 western lowland gorillas in the northern Republic of ...

Climate change's impact on invasive plants in Western US may create restoration opportunities

... the retreat of some invasive plant species in the western United States, which could create unprecedented ... of five prominent invasive plants in the western United States known colloquially as the "kudzus ... expanded their ranges in recent decades in the western U.S., causing millions of dollars in damage to ...

NAU research ties tree mortality trends to climate warming

... Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the western United States," an article to be published in the ... and Nathan L. Stephenson, scientists with the western Ecological Research Center for the U.S. ... data sets from old trees across much of the western part of the country and one thing those forests ...

Tree deaths have doubled across the western US

... the last few decades in old-growth forests of the western United States, and the most probable cause of the ... ultimately could lead to substantial changes in western forests, said Phil van Mantgem, a USGS scientist ... increasing tree mortality rates mean that western forests could become net sources of carbon ...

January-February GSA Bulletin media highlights

... 10Be chronology of the last deglaciation of western Ireland and implications for sensitivity of the ... of the Killard Point stadial ice margin from western Ireland. Eight 10Be dates from the Ox Mountains ... Fault, a major active structure near the western margin of the Colorado Plateau. CO2 gas ...

Dirty snow causes early runoff in Cascades, Rockies

... is important for water resource managers in the western United States and Canada who plan for ... the first-ever study of soot on snow in the western states at a scale that predicted impacts along ... zoom in on the Rocky Mountain, Cascade, and other western United States mountain ranges. They modeled how ...

USGS Science Picks

... Where is Snfellsjkull? Human Footprint in western U.S.: Impact to Wildlife and Plants How Many ... about 1,000 times greater than levels found in western cities, where coal-tar sealcoat is less commonly ... or dozman@usgs.gov . Human Footprint in western U.S.: Impact to Wildlife and Plants Over the ...

Scientists find facial scars increase attractiveness

... have found. It was previously assumed that in western cultures scarring was an unattractive facial ... and Stirling University, however, have found that western women find scarring on men attractive and may ... the historical tradition of academic fencing in western culture, whereby scarring on a man was often ...

NSF grant to launch undergrads from Case Western Reserve into math and science teaching

... Foundation (NSF) is funding a new program at Case western Reserve University to prepare 24 high-achieving ... within the College of Arts and Sciences at Case western Reserve will seek to encourage science and ... In addition, the Noyce program builds on Case western Reserve's existing partnership with Fisk ...

Building a better bee

... ( Apis mellifera carnica ) is a subspecies of the western honey bee. The subspecies, which originated in ... among California beekeepers, after another western honey bee subspecies, the Italian honey bee. ... diseases. The bee species now known as the western honey bee was initially brought from Europe to ...

NIH selects Case Western Reserve University to participate in National Children's Study

... CLEVELAND October 3, 2008 Case western Reserve University School of Medicine has been ... At a briefing today, NIH officials named Case western Reserve University School of Medicine as one of ... three different counties.) "The award to Case western Reserve University will bring a number of ...

Case Western Reserve University researchers track Chernobyl fallout

... More than 20 years later, researchers from Case western Reserve University traveled to Sweden and Poland ... of the department of geological sciences at Case western Reserve University, Lauren Vitko, field assistant from Case western Reserve, and others took soil samples in various ...

October 2008 GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights

... are recorded from Early Triassic rocks found in western Alberta, northeast British Columbia, and the ... that a colonization window existed along ancient western Canadian shorelines that was controlled by ... tectonics and climate forcing of biodiversity, western United States Matthew Kohn and Theodore Fremd, ...

Southern Sierra Science Symposium planned for Visalia

... ON THE SIERRA NEVADA NATHAN L. STEPHENSON - USGS western Ecological Research Center, Sequoia Kings Canyon ... Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in western Mountains). His current research efforts are primarily in concert with USGS's western Mountain Initiative, a global change research ...

Codeine not safe for all breastfeeding moms and their babies

... according to researchers at The University of western Ontario, and the Hospital for Sick Children ... of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of western Ontario, and is a professor of pediatrics at both western and the University of Toronto. He is also a ...

2007 hurricane forecasts took blow from winds and Saharan dry, dusty air

... connected to relative humidity over the tropical western Atlantic, and is a perfect measure of how far ... They also found that the far-reaching western extent of dust in 2006 and 2007 was associated with less-than-normal humidity over the western North Atlantic. "This index hasn't been looked ...

Tiny invasive snail impacts Great Lakes, alters ecology

... Long a problem in the western U.S., the New Zealand mud snail currently ... in the east until 1991 in Lake Ontario. The western and eastern U.S. populations are separate ... same as one clone found in Europe. "In the western U.S., this species is of special concern largely ...

Wildlife Conservation Society discovers 'Planet of the Apes'

... The world's population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas received a huge boost today when ... The new census tallied more than 125,000 western lowland gorillas in two adjacent areas in the ... from the 1980s placed the entire population of western lowland gorillas, which occur in seven Central ...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers receive $10.8 million

... States and Canada led by physicians at Case western Reserve University School of Medicine, have ... the Scott Inkley Professor of Medicine at Case western Reserve University "It is very gratifying to ... resulting in AIDS. In addition to Case western Reserve University, researchers involved in CLIC ...

AGU journal highlights -- July 23, 2008

... suppression may have reduced carbon storage in western U.S. forests Active fire suppression since ... and the density of stems growing on trees within western U.S. forests. These factors have created thicker ... than increased, the amount of biomass stored in western U.S. forests. Title: Has fire suppression ...

August 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology, western Australia 6102, Australia. Pages 639-642. The ... and Mining, P.O. Box 1130, Bentley 6102, western Australia, Australia. Pages 655-658. Due to ... as those found at Mount Keith and Black Swan in western Australia, are now being mined profitably. The ...

Cancer drug delivery research at Case Western Reserve University cuts time from days to hours

... CLEVELAND Researchers at Case western Reserve University have developed a technique ... Dynamics and Nanomaterials Research at Case western Reserve University and graduate student Yu Cheng, ... (a phthalocyanine compound) was developed at Case western Reserve by Malcolm Kenney, professor of ....

Study: Future snowmelt in West twice as early as expected; threatens ecosystems and water reserves

... could lead to larger changes in snowmelt in the western United States than was previously thought, ... able to reproduce the complex topography of the western United States and capture details of the effect ... to the success of water management in the western United States. Water resources for the area are ...

Biodiversity maps developed by UCSD scientists will help guide conservation measures in East Africa

... increased farming has fragmented the landscape, western said. "It's removed the highland grazing for both ... the land open, through a conservation easement," western said. To determine how the centers of ... in Kenya and Tanzania. "The organization David western represents has close ties to the stakeholders in ...

Geology and biology meet in the history of US southwestern desert surface waters

... of the aquatic history of this fascinating western North American region and to develop broader ... in honor of their pioneering studies of western North American fishes and aquatic biogeography ... in the protection and conservation of native western fishes and their fragile habitats. ...

Researcher strives for watershed moment

... and pollution, a researcher at The University of western Ontario hopes to help protect future water resources. western geography professor Katrina Moser studies the ... Lake and Reservoir System Research Facility at western and is also conducting studies related to changes ...

Monarch butterflies help explain why parasites harm hosts

... strains from monarch butterflies in eastern and western North America that have different migratory ... back again, traveling up to 5,000 km round-trip. western monarchs migrate roughly a third of this distance ... produce any offspring. The team exposed western and eastern monarchs to parasite strains from ...

Sierra Nevada rose to current height earlier than thought, say Stanford geologists

... studying deposits of volcanic glass in the western United States have found that the central Sierra ... of the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains in the western United States has direct implications for climate ... a time span when volcanism was rampant in the western United States owing to the ongoing subduction of ...

Ugandan monkeys harbor evidence of infection with unknown poxvirus

... this month that red colobus monkeys in a park in western Uganda have been exposed to an unknown ... red colobus monkeys in Kibale National Park, in western Uganda. Chapman, also an associate scientist ... and wildlife are on the rise, Goldberg said. western Uganda has one of the fastest growing populations ...