Lincoln Park Zoo researcher awarded prestigious conservation biology fellowship
... Reed canary grass is a fast-growing perennial grass that is a major threat to marshes and natural wetlands. The overabundance of it decreases biotic diversity and often has a devastating impact on ecosystem processes. Jacobi will work under the academic mentorship of Jeffrey Camm, Ph.D., ...World Environment Day (International Polar Year)
... Any interference or disruption in the latter is bound to affect humans, seriously. Visible changes are already having a deleterious impact on the biotic community. As global warming increases, negative consequences will also rise. USA, Russia, China, India and Brazil, are among some of the ...Harvard Proposes Drug Disposal Plan
... envelopes and disposed in bag used for disposal of hazardous wastes. Researchers feel that proper disposal of drugs are required for maintaining the biotic ....Geology and biology meet in the history of US southwestern desert surface waters
... and speciation. The book's 19 papers summarize and integrate geologic and biotic perspectives to provide a current synthesis of the aquatic history of this ... the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and biotic Perspectives is dedicated to Carl Leavitt Hubbs (1894-1979) and Robert ...Conservation of freshwater fish biodiversity: a challenge for the countries of the South
... of the non-native fish species. Three hypotheses were tested: the biotic resistance, biotic acceptance and human activity. The first suggests that a high diversity of ...December GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
... evidence from a South China section (an optimal section to study the biotic crisis) that indicates a two-episodic global change in association with ... bolide impact. The temporal sequence of these two events suggests that the biotic crisis was a consequence of prolonged and episodic changes in the marine ...New species of phallus-shaped mushroom named after California Academy of Sciences scientist
... and Perry named the new species after Drewes as an acknowledgment of his "inspiration and fortitude to initiate, coordinate and lead multiorganism biotic surveys on Sao Tome and Principe," according to the Mycologia paper. "It's a wonderful honor and great fun to have this phallus-shaped fungus ...Princeton geoscientist offers new evidence that meteorite did not wipe out dinosaurs
... in sediments below the impact layer and counted all 52 still present in the layer above it, indicating that the impact has not had the devasting biotic effect on species diversity as has been suggested. "Not a single species went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub impact," Keller said. In ...Host shift triggers cascading effect on ecosystem, research finds
... postdoctoral researcher in professor Jay Rosenheim's laboratory in the UC Davis Department of Entomology. "It also suggests why certain areas and/or biotic regions may have more species than others." The research, "Sequential Sympatric Speciation Across Trophic Levels," published Feb. 6 in the ...New paper offers key insights into how new species emerge
... mass extinction events, for why certain groups of organisms with certain lifestyles may be more diverse than others, and for why certain areas of biotic regions may have more life forms than others," Feder said. Where Darwin once traveled to the Galapagos Islands and sleuthed to other far-flung ...January-February GSA Bulletin media highlights
... years. This is the first estimate for the duration and age of the Ludlow Member, and it can be used as an important tool for interpreting rates of biotic recovery after the K-T extinction. Paleogene landscape evolution of the central North American Cordillera: Developing topography and ...Academy participates in project to discover drugs, biofuels in tropical seas
... evolutionary biologist at the Academy, the oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas. Rosenberg already has developed a biotic database documenting more than 25,000 species of Indo-Pacific marine mollusks. He oversees the Academy's world-renowned collection of more than 10 ...Discovering drugs, biofuels in tropical seas
... of malacology (the study of mollusks) and an evolutionary biologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, who already has developed a biotic database documenting more than 25,000 species of Indo-Pacific marine mollusks. The second aim is discovery of biologically active molecules from ...Agilent Arabidopsis 3 Oligo Microarray Kit from Agilent Technologies
Description:... Delaware. This microarray will be useful for scientists studying gene activity associated with various plant organ functions, stages of growth, and biotic and abiotic stresses. Features ~40,000 (60-mer) probes that represents full genome coverage of Arabidopsis thaliana with annotations available ...Rice Oligo Microarray Kit, 22K from Agilent Technologies
Description:... 22K enables researchers to simultaneously characterize thousands of rice genes associated with biological functions, growth processes, and biotic and abiotic stress response. Each microarray contains sequences representing estimated coverage of 60% of the rice (japonica) genome focuses on well ...