Tasmanian Ecology Affected By Devil Facial Tumor Disease
The Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease has affected the ecological balance existing between native and feral species in Tasmania//. Due to this disease the number of devils has sharply reduced. David Pemberton a researcher said that there is a 40% drop in the devil population in the Mt Willia...Birth Control May Help Ward Off Bacterial Vaginosis
...ng said. "Nobody really knows which comes first," Erbelding said. Hormonal contraceptives may help ward off a recurrence by altering the vaginal ecology or by reducing menstruation, which is also associated with changes to vaginal bacteria levels, according to the study. More information The U...Was SIDS the cause of infant deaths even 150 years ago?
.... Ariane Kemkes, an independent researcher from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Her findings (1) are published online this week in Springer's journal Human ecology . SIDS is the third most prominent cause of death among infants under a year old, accounting for 30-55 percent of infant deaths during their first ...Plant communication: Sagebrush engage in self-recognition and warn of danger
...essor Richard Karban of the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, in groundbreaking research published in the current edition of ecology Letters . Karban and fellow scientist Kaori Shiojiri of the Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Japan, found that sagebrush responded...Scientists find city rats are loyal to their 'hoods
... In the rat race of life, one thing is certain: there's no place like home. Now, a study just released in Molecular ecology finds the same is true for rats. Although inner city rodents appear to roam freely, most form distinct neighborhoods where they spend the majority of...UTSA announces funding for new faculty research
...Recipients (All projects will receive $22,000 in funding.) The Evolution of Terrace Farming in Mountainous Environments: Archaeology, Historical ecology and Ethnography in the Eastern Andes PI: Sonia Alconini, Assistant Professor, Anthropology (COLFA) Synergistic effects of chemicals released from ...Thus the bile does not overflow
...on of the bacterial communities of the catheters. Their results have now been published by the scientific journal International Society for Microbial ecology Journal . The Scientists of the HZI Department "Microbial Pathogenesis" used material from biliary stents of patients where old catheters had been ...Natural Killer Cells May Help Protect Against New Strains of Influenza Virus
...ctoral degrees. Our 31 faculty members and scientists are passionately involved in teaching and conducting research in Cellular and Molecular Biology, ecology and Environmental Science, Organism Physiology and Development, Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, and Nutrition and Food. About Active Hex...Photos: How You Can Help Protect Yourself & Your Family From Swine Flu (H1N1)
...ng or blowing your nose, using the restroom, eating or preparing food or touching an animal," says Eileen Lantier, RN, PhD and Associate Dean of Human ecology at Syracuse University . Dr. Lantier also notes viruses can be transferred by shaking hands, social contact and in public places. "To effectively an...K-State Researchers Bringing Expertise to Kansas City Symposium on Disease and National Security
...erichia coli 0157 and Food Safety" at 9 a.m. He will discuss how Escherichia coli O157 has emerged as a major foodborne pathogen. Nagaraja studies the ecology of E. coli O157 in cattle and is working to identify intervention strategies at the farm level that will ultimately reduce the risk of human disease. ...Urban water ecology at the ESA annual meeting
Increasingly, human urban development overlaps with habitat for wild animals and plants, creating environments that degrade natural landscapes. But people, animals and plants all have in common the need for healthy, sustainable freshwater ecosystems. In a series of presentations at the Ecological ...Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments
From hair color to the ancestral line of parasitic bacteria, scientists can glean a lot from genes. But imagine if genes also revealed where you lived or who you spent time with. It turns out they do, if you know where and how to look. Stanford researchers with collaborators at Tel-Aviv Univers...Federal scientists recognized for contributions to knowledge of bird ecology and habitat
PORTLAND, Ore. February 6, 2009. Two federal scientists have won national awards for their research on the habitat and ecology of the marbled murrelet and the northern spotted owl. Martin Raphael and Eric Forsman, research wildlife biologists at the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Stat...Smithsonian scientists receive coveted BBVA Ecology and Conservation Award
Outstanding leaders in tropical biology and conservation, William F. Laurance, senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Thomas E. Lovejoy, research associate at the Institute and Biodiversity Chair at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Envi...Minnesota ecology professor wins international award for biodiversity and biofuels research
David Tilman, Regents Professor of Ecology at the University of Minnesota, has been named the 2008 recipient of the International Prize for Biology. Tilman will receive a medal, a $100,000 cash prize and a gift from Emperor Akihito of Japan in a ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 8. Following the ceremony,...NSF, NIH award Ecology of Infectious Disease grants
Unprecedented changes in biodiversity have coincided with the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases around the world. To address this problem, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced $16 million in funding for eight projects ...The 12th International Behavioral Ecology Congress held at Cornell University, Aug. 10-14
WHAT: 12th International Behavioral Ecology Congress WHEN: August 10-14, 2008 WHERE: Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. WHO: Hosted by the International Society for Behavioral Ecology ITHACA, N.Y. Journalists are welcome to attend the 12th International Behavioral Ecology Congress,...UGA Odum School of Ecology professor receives grant to study West Nile Virus in NYC
Athens, Ga. When West Nile virus first struck New York City in 1999, news of the potentially fatal illness alarmed citizens and public health officials alike, showing that even affluent, urban societies are vulnerable to vector-borne diseases. Although West Nile virus has been widely studied, the...Lohafex provides new insights on plankton ecology
The Indo-German team of scientists from the National Institute of Oceanography and the Alfred Wegener Institute has returned from its expedition on research vessel Polarstern. The cooperative project Lohafex has yielded new insights on how ocean ecosystems function. But it has dampened hopes on th...Rise or fall of reef fish driven by both economy and ecology
Overfishing on coral reefs isn't simply caused by too many people, according to a new report published in the February 10th issue of Current Biology , a Cell Press publication. Rather, the researchers found that the biomass of fish found on coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean depended mostly ...2 Springer authors receive NWO/Spinoza Prize in the Netherlands
...in complex systems, varying from transitions in shallow lakes to climate change and the collapse of ancient cultures. Dr. Scheffer published his book ecology of Shallow Lakes with Springer. Professor Albert van den Berg is a physicist at the University of Twente, and has made key breakthroughs in the und...Biologist discovers pink-winged moth in Chiricahua Mountains
...areas in the country and collectors have been finding hundreds of new species for decades. This one, however, is different. Walsh is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a member of the UA's BIO5 Institute. He is best known in the science community as an authority on plant and animal breedi...Nature parks can save species as climate changes
...conservation concern in sub-Saharan Africa and on the network of sites designated for them (termed Important Bird Areas). Published in the journal ecology Letters , the research - funded by the RSPB - demonstrates that a network of wildlife areas will be a crucial tool to help biodiversity survive future...Internet can warn of ecological changes
...nings of ecological crisis are still limited by insufficient data and gaps in official monitoring systems. In an article for the journal Frontiers in ecology and the Environment , centre researchers Victor Galaz, Beatrice Crona, rjan Bodin, Magnus Nystrm and Per Olsson, and Tim Daw from the School of Intern...Ecologists propose first prevention for white-nose syndrome death in bats
... says Justin Boyles, a graduate student in biology at Indiana State University and the first author of the paper, published this week in Frontiers in ecology and the Environment e-View. The syndrome has baffled scientists since its discovery in the winter of 2006 in upstate New York, where hibernating ...Weed Science Society of America Announces Winners in Annual Scientific Awards Program
... Environmental Science Montana State University Bozeman, Montana Mark L. Taper, Ph.D. Research Associate and Associate Professor, Department of ecology Montana State University Bozeman, Montana - Outstanding Paper in the Journal Weed Science "Heterologous Hybridization of Cotton Microa...A need for improved efficiency in nanomanufacturing
...of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the processes used to manufacture them. Research published in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial ecology , a peer-reviewed journal owned by Yale University and headquartered at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, highlights the need for...Bayer Broadens Its Manufacturing Basis for Biopharmaceuticals in Tobacco Plants
... the principles of sustainable development and acknowledges and accepts its role as a socially and ethically responsible "corporate citizen". Economy, ecology and social responsibility are corporate policy objectives of equal rank. In fiscal 2007, Bayer employed 106,200 people and had sales of EUR 32.4 billi...Oil palm plantations are no substitute for tropical rainforests, a new study shows
...hest wildlife habitat on land, are also home to some of the most threatened species on earth. The review, published today in the journal Trends in ecology and Evolution, singles out deforestation associated with plantation development as by far the biggest ecological impact, but finds that the links bet...UT Knoxville Wins $16M Mathematics and Biology Center
...utions. The center will be directed by Louis Gross, a professor of math and ecology and evolutionary biology. "NIMBioS is an exceptional addition to our camp...al science to biology in general. Sergey Gavrilets, a professor of math and ecology and evolutionary biology at UT Knoxville, will oversee research at NIMBioS ...Competitive exclusion principle
...r stable coexistence allow for unlimited number of species to coexist, yet in nature, any community contains just a handful of species. See also: ecology References Gause, G. F. (1934). The struggle for existence . Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins. ...