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Afghanistan to protect wildlife and wild lands

...ties to help them sustainably manage their natural resource base; and setting up a wildlife monitoring program. "Conserving Afghanistan's unique biological diversity is an important element of USAID's overall reconstruction program in the country," said Alonzo Fulgham, Mission Director, USAID/Afghanistan. "...

Creating a window on 'oceans in motion'

Scientists and resource managers could soon have a highly detailed picture of marine conditions and the migrations of fish and ocean animals throughout the world, according to international experts convening a landmark conference in Canada June 27-30. Academics, scientists...

Insect predation sheds light on food web recovery after the dinosaur extinction

...g insects faced the choice of shifting their food resource or dying. Many died, but in most places a few survived, and from these, some evolved to feed on new host plants. As the ecosystem rebuilt new links from its shattered state, the empty ecological space was open to opportunism, and in a few places...

DOE JGI sequences, releases genome of symbiotic tree fungus

...vide the global research community with a critical resource to develop faster-growing trees for producing more biomass that can be converted to fuels, and for trees capable of capturing more carbon from the atmosphere," said DOE JGI Director Eddy Rubin. "The woody tissues of trees act as one of the world's ...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

...ary primate tree and making available an essential resource for researchers unraveling the genetic factors involved in human health and disease. Comparing the genomes of other species to humans is an exceptionally powerful tool to help researchers understand the working parts of the human genome in both healt...

A new look at the state of the oceans

...e oceans, their significance as the most important resource for the world's population, and their impact on the climate will be at the centre of discussion during the seminar 'A new look on the ocean' at the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF 2006) in Munich. The primary focus of the seminar will be on utilisation ...

Pollen proves beneficial for northern lakes

...ng the availability of plankton, an important food resource for forage fish, the production of harvestable sport fish may also rise, all thanks to pollen. Since climate also affects annual pollen production predicted climate change scenarios could affect the productivity of northern lakes by altering the ma...

Discovery could aid fight against cystic fibrosis infection

...rotein, called Hcp1, into the Protein Data Bank, a resource used by biologists worldwide to find information about the proteins they are studying. While exploring the Protein Data Bank, Mougous, who was studying PA in the laboratory of department chair John Mekalanos, recognized that the amino acid sequenc...

Scientists describe new African monkey genus ?first in 83 years

.... Logging, charcoal making, poaching and unmanaged resource extraction are common. Without intervention, both forests will be further fragmented, the authors note in their paper. The main predators of Kipunji are crowned eagles and possibly leopards. But humans also hunt and kill Kipunji, and eat their meat. ...

NAU researchers chirping over discovery of new cricket genus

...ureau of Land Management cave coordinator and cave resource management lead for Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. He is a co-investigator on both the Arizona component of the cave ecological inventory project and phase two of the Earth-Mars cave detection study. "Jut has a very diverse research prog...

Learning the language of DNA

...essor Hume said. "This knowledge will be a major resource to the biomedical research community." Part of understanding the language of cells lies in identifying promoters - the DNA regions at the start of genes that regulate their activity. "We have identified the core promoters of the large majority of...

African wetland managers armed with new technology

... focuses on the use of EO data for improving water resource management in Africa. Abundant water makes wetlands the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth, more productive even than tropical rainforests. Unlike rainforests, they are scattered across the world, providing regional flood and erosion pre...

Genetic 'roadmap' charts links between drugs and human disease

...s of human biology would provide a valuable public resource for the scientific community. Such an effort would parallel the sequencing of the human genome, both in its scope and in its potential to accelerate the pace of biomedical research." ...

Mother birds give a nutritional leg up to chicks with unattractive fathers

...viding new insight into the strategic basis behind resource allocation in eggs, the researchers found that fem...vitably be faced with decisions regarding how much resource to invest in each egg in each clutch she lays." Male house finches display nutrition-linked plumag...

Ground spider diversity studied in research project

...k is expanding our knowledge of this local natural resource and the role such habitats play in nature," Harris said. "This knowledge can enrich our human experience and can also be used in larger studies of biodiversity and production agriculture involving spiders." For people who think the only good spider...

Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms

...oms are widely acknowledged to be a severe coastal resource management issue, adversely impacting virtually every coastal region. Current methods for detecting the poisonous toxins characteristic of the blooms are cumbersome, require either expensive reagents or animal testing, or are unable to quantify toxin...

A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species

...increases a species' value into a classic model of resource exploitation used to manage fisheries. Prizing rarity, they found, triggers a positive feedback loop between exploitation and rarity that drives a species into an extinction vortex. This phenomenon, the authors explain, resembles an ecological proc...

Study suggests evolutionary link between diet, brain size in orangutans

...ate a relationship between relative brain size and resource quality at this microevolutionary level in primates," they said. Such a change would provide support for what Taylor called the "expensive tissue" hypothesis. "Compared to other tissues, brain tissue is metabolically expensive to grow and maintain,...

International team analyzes human genetic variation in key immune region

...of Nature Genetics. "This new map will be a key resource for researchers to use to find genes affecting health, disease, and responses to medications," said senior author Dr. John D. Rioux, PhD, who is associate professor of medicine at the UdeM and at the MHI where he works as a researcher and director of...

PLoS ONE is launched by the Public Library of Science

...d in the article, a link to another useful work or resource that can be added, or an alternative interpretation that can be offered for some of the results. In each case, readers and authors can respond to the addition, and everyone else can benefit from the resulting dialogue. The possibilities are without l...

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