Scitizen Biodiversity

Gary Luck and colleagues' paper Protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity in the world's watersheds, recently posted online in Conservation Letters, is a novel approach to an admittedly prob...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/global-conservation-priorities-based-on-human-need_a-22-2875.html

A paper just published online in Conservation Letters by Venter and colleagues entitled Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals gets my vote for the Potential list.

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/tropical-forests-worth-more-standing_a-22-2796.html

Think of island-dwelling animals and enormous Kodiak bear, giant tortoises, and huge man-eating lizards alongside miniature mammoths, and dwarf hippos spring to mind. In 1964, a scientist called ...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/the-island-rule-made-to-be-broken-_a-22-1213.html

A variety of human activities have caused the recent global decline of reef-building corals. The key drivers of anthropogenic coral mortality and loss are nearly all regional- to global-scale str...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/marine-reserves-and-climate-change-study-finds-no-take-reserves-do-not-increase-reef-resilience_a-22-2242.html

I noted in early August that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) closed its Center for Capacity Building, a center focused on social effects of climate change. Apparently, the Roc...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/the-rockefeller-foundation-and-climate-change_a-22-2240.html

Robert Hahn, Reg-Markets Center at the American Enterprise Institute, and Peter Passell, senior fellow at the Milken Institute, had an op-ed piece in the New York Times this week arguing that env...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/the-costs-of-drilling_a-22-2229.html

I have long protected my forests, now where is my money? The Rights and Resources Initiative provides some interesting cautionary advice in new reports, suggesting that rushing to pay for forest ...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/carbon-forest-protection-payments-who-gets-the-check-_a-22-2139.html

A new study found that large brown seaweeds, when under stress, release large quantities of inorganic iodine into the coastal atmosphere, where it can contribute to cloud formation, thus influenc...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/the-antioxidant-function-of-iodide-in-kelp-impacts-coastal-climate_a-22-2041.html

According to a new study by researchers in China and Japan, we found that marine bacteria were helpful in enhancing composting process of wakame, a kind of seaweed generally existed in the coasta...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/marine-pollution-control-by-seaweed-planting-and-composting_a-22-1974.html

Ms Helle Siegstad, MSc in Biology, is the Department Manager of the Department of Fish & Scrimps in Greenland's Nature Institution. This video is from Workshop 1: Marine environment and sustainab...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/climate-changes-and-effects-on-marine-resources-in-greenland-and-polar-waters_a-22-1945.html

Part II of the video above from Ms. Helle Siegstad, TACC2008.

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/climate-changes-and-effects-on-marine-resources-in-greenland-and-polar-waters-part-ii_a-22-1946.html

In an era of climate change, pollution, and rapid habitat loss, it?s all too easy for doom and gloom to prevail when discussing conservation issues. However, armed with the right information, it ...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/a-new-model-to-protect-biodiversity_a-22-1931.html

In an investigative report published today by Eyes on the Forest, evidence shows that a new logging road in Riau Province -- strongly indicated as illegally built by companies connected to Asia P...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/logging-road-threatens-biodiversity_a-22-1885.html

If you plan to vacation at the beach this summer or open the tap for a clean glass of water, that small stream in your neighborhood may be more important than you think. Why is this? It's because...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/streams-are-important-nitrogen-filters-in-the-landscape_a-22-1856.html

Overview from Laurens Rademakers on Biopact.com*: A study by UC Irvine ecologists finds that excess nitrogen in tropical forests boosts plant growth, countering the belief that such tropical ecos...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/nitrogen-pollution-boost-plant-growth_a-22-1526.html

Ecosystems are in flux around the world. Important species are disappearing due to mismanagement and climate change, while invasive new species are appearing. These changes are striking fear into...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/a-new-way-to-assess-local-ecosystems-sustainability_a-22-1481.html

A report from CNN examines a project which uses electricity to revive the dying coral reef in Bali.

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/reviving-the-coral-reef_a-22-1486.html

The exploration of the abysses of our planet is one of the last frontiers of ecological research. The dark portion of the biosphere likely hosts millions of undiscovered-yet new species. A global...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/deep-sea-biodiversity-conservation-needed-to-avoid-ecosystem-collapse_a-22-1398.html

A recent research study coordinated by Joan B. Company and Pere Puig from the Marine Sciences Institute in Barcelona (CSIC) has demonstrated that the formation of dense shelf water cascades is be...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/climate-influences-on-deep-sea-populations_a-22-1437.html

Amphibians across the globe are facing a mass extinction event, believed by many to be worse than any other witnessed by humans. Nearly a third of all amphibian species are threatened with extinc...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/habitat-protection-for-the-big-picture-of-environment-conservation_a-22-1304.html

6-14% of birds are likely to go extinct in the 21st century as a result of habitat loss, hunting, pet trade, and introduced animals like cats that kill birds. This 2004 study did not examine the ...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/trouble-for-birds_a-22-1323.html

Scientists have reclassified biomes like deserts and forests into ecosystems that show how humans have altered the Earth. Jorge Ribas (Discovery News) talks to one of the proposal's authors, Dr. ...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/human-influence-on-ecology_a-22-1307.html

A century-long examination of trends in population, farm income and crop production in the Great Plains reveals stability of farm income and population during the last 40 years, while simultaneou...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/surprising-sustainability-of-great-plains-agriculture_a-22-1216.html

For many environmentalists, acid rain was the cause c?l?bre of the 1980s, but how far have we come in solving the problem? Recent work shows how continuing acid episodes can explain the weak biol...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/the-long-hard-reign-of-acid-rain_a-22-1168.html

Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo travels to the Mata Atlantica, which is as rich in biodiversity as the more famous Amazon and in danger of disappearing under expanding cities.

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/brazil-s-atlantic-forest-under-threat_a-22-1163.html

A persistent challenge in ecology is to explain the high species diversity of tropical forests. One approach to facing this challenge is to analyze the spatial patterns of explicit maps of indivi...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/spatial-patterns-of-tropical-tree-species-retain-little-signature-of-species-interactions_a-22-1127.html

Biological diversity is being lost at unprecedented rates around the world, both in the number of different species and the genetic variety within a species. Do these processes happen independent...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/biodiversity-a-rock-paper-scissors-game-played-at-multiple-scales_a-22-1076.html

Recent research in south-east England shows how constraints on the dispersal of threatened and declining snails has been overlooked as a constraint on their survival and persistence.

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/are-snails-too-slow-for-their-own-good-_a-22-1069.html

IUCN-The World Conservation Union released yesterday its 2007 Red List of Threatened Species. There are now 41,415 species endangered and 16,306 of them are threatened with extinction, up from 16...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/two-hundred-more-endangered-species-than-last-year_a-22-1049.html

Until now, we knew very little about geographic and temporal patterns of coral loss in the Indo-Pacific, which contains 75% of the world?s reefs and is the global center of marine biodiversity. R...

http://www.scitizen.com/biodiversity/indo-pacific-coral-reefs-are-disappearing-more-rapidly-than-expected_a-22-968.html