Science Current Events | Science News | Brightsurf.com
 

Ecosystem Productivity Current Events | Ecosystem Productivity News | 2
Page 2 of 17 | 410 Results
Previous0102030405060708091011   Next   
Sort By: Page Views | Date
Yale study offers new paradigm on ecosystem ecology
Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions, according to a Yale study published today in Science.   view more (2008-02-15)

The Milky Way shaped life on Earth
Frenzied star-making in the Milky Way Galaxy starting about 2400 million years ago had extraordinary effects on life on Earth.   view more (2006-11-15)

New study finds biodiversity conservation secures ecosystem services for people
Healthy ecosystems that provide people with essential natural goods and services often overlap with regions rich in biological diversity, underscoring that conserving one also protects the other, according to a new study.   view more (2007-12-06)

Deep-sea species' loss could lead to oceans' collapse, study suggests
The loss of deep-sea species poses a severe threat to the future of the oceans, suggests a new report publishing early online on December 27th and in the January 8th issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.   view more (2007-12-28)

Accelerating loss of ocean species threatens human well-being
An international group of ecologists and economists has shown that the loss of biodiversity is profoundly reducing the ocean's ability to produce seafood, resist diseases, filter pollutants and rebound from stresses such as overfishing and climate change.   view more (2006-11-07)

Frozen hair holds secrets of Yellowstone grizzlies
Locks of hair from more than 400 grizzly bears are stored at Montana State University, waiting to tell the tale of genetic diversity in the Yellowstone Ecosystem.   view more (2007-12-19)

Yellowstone ecosystem may lose key migrant
A mammal that embarks on the longest remaining overland migration in the continental United States could vanish from the ecosystem that includes Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, according to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and National Park Service.   view more (2006-07-11)

Hareless: Yellowstone's rabbits have vanished, study says
A new study by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society found that jack rabbits living in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have apparently hopped into oblivion.   view more (2008-02-15)

Big vegetarian mammals can play a critical role in maintaining healthy ecosystems, study finds
Removing large herbivorous mammals from the African savanna can cause a dramatic shift in the relative abundance of species throughout the food chain.   view more (2007-01-17)

New appointment for team promoting UK competitiveness and productivity
A new appointment has been made to the team of experts set up to look at ways of enhancing the competitiveness and productivity of UK businesses. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has appointed Professor Andy Neely of Cranfield School of Management as the Associate Director of... view more (2003-06-20)

Global warming will reduce ocean productivity, marine life
A 10-year, satellite-based analysis has shown for the first time that primary biological productivity in the oceans-the growth of phytoplankton that forms the basis for the rest of the marine food chain-is tightly linked to climate change, and would be reduced by global warming.   view more (2006-12-07)

Oil palm research in context: Identifying the need for biodiversity assessment
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) cultivation has expanded dramatically in recent decades and is frequently cited as a major threat to tropical biodiversity.   view more (2008-02-13)

Biodiversity yields dividends, finds pan-European research
A team of scientists from eight European countries, led by Professor John Lawton at the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, say that their experimental evidence should send a clear message to European policy makers: that preserving and... view more (1999-11-01)

New cost-benefit model will aid efforts to conserve wilderness: UBC researcher
A new conservation model that measures the value of ecosystem services benefiting humans - ranging from flood control to crop pollination - can foster more win-win solutions between wilderness advocates and landowners.   view more (2006-10-31)

Lowly Icelandic midges reveal ecosystem's tipping points
The midges that periodically swarm by the billions from Iceland's Lake Myvatn are a force of nature.   view more (2008-03-06)

Live skin substitute to unlock new products
Many long-established skin products, such as shampoos and soaps, contain harmful or ineffective ingredients because effective testing methods were unavailable when they were developed. The first ever model of live skin with a full ecosystem of micro-organisms - created at the University of Leeds -... view more (2004-07-06)

Antarctic icebergs: unlikely oases for ocean life
Icebergs have long gripped the popular imagination, whether as relatively run-of-the-mill floating hazards that cause "unsinkable' ships to founder or, more recently, as enormous breakaway pieces of ice the size of states or small countries.   view more (2007-06-25)

Productivity Gap of East German Firms only partly explicable
Even ten years after economic and monetary union, the productivity of East German manufacturing firms is only about two-thirds of that of Western firms. This is revealed by recent analyses of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe. They investigated about 1,300... view more (2001-05-03)

What makes life go at the tropics?
What causes tropical life to thrive: temperature, or sunlight? The answer is not necessarily "both." According to a study published online this week in PNAS Early Edition, the explosion of species at the tropics has much more to do with warmth than with light.   view more (2008-05-28)

Envisat captures first image of Sargassum from space
Sargassum seaweed, famous in nautical lore for entangling ships in its dense floating vegetation, has been detected from space for the first time thanks to an instrument aboard ESA's environmental satellite, Envisat.   view more (2007-06-07)

Resilience concepts poised to aid management of coastal marine ecosystems
The January 2008 issue of BioScience includes a special section entitled "Managing for Resilience in Coastal Marine Ecosystems." The four articles in the section highlight different aspects of attempts to incorporate modern concepts from mathematical ecology into ecosystem-based... view more (2008-01-02)

Current mass extinction spurs major study of which plants to save
The Earth is in the midst of the sixth mass extinction of both plants and animals, with nearly 50 percent of all species disappearing, scientists say.   view more (2008-10-21)

New research says a university degree adds 25% to earnings
New research by Professor Ian Walker and Dr Yu Zhu, economists at the University of Warwick, says that completing an undergraduate degree adds an average of around 25% to one's earnings compared to those who choose to leave education at 18. But the research also shows that this boost in earnings... view more (2003-03-05)

Ecosystem consequences of a single, genetically based plant trait
Climate is often touted as the most important regulator of decomposition and nutrient cycling processes in forest ecosystems, however, in the forthcoming issue of Ecology Letters, Schweitzer and her research team from Northern Arizona University and the University of Wisconsin, USA, demonstrate... view more (2004-02-05)

Smithsonian scientists report new carbon dioxide study
Researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center report the results of a six-year experiment in which doubling the atmospheric greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in a scrub oak ecosystem caused a reduction in carbon storage in the soil.   view more (2007-03-13)
Page 2 of 17 | 410 Results
Previous0102030405060708091011   Next   
Sort By: Page Views | Date
© 2008 BrightSurf.com