11/20/2008
Biogeography (About.com)
Biogeography is a branch of geography that studies the past and present distribution of the world's many plant and animal species. Learn how and what biogeographers study the flora and...
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11/21/2008
Disappearance Of Pine Trees In Spain's Cantabrian Mountains Threatens Cantabrian Capercaillie Bird (Science Daily)
The crux of the problem about the revival and conservation of the Cantabrian capercaillie bird could be that the decline in pine forests has not been linked with its survival. This is the conclusion of a study published in the most recent number of the Journal of Biogeography. The scientists are requesting urgent conservation measures to protect the natural pine forests of Cantabria.
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11/13/2008
The Evolution Of Water Balance In Glossina (Diptera: Glossinidae): Correlations With Climate (Medical News Today)
The water balance of tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) has significant implications for understanding biogeography and climate change responses in these African disease vectors.
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11/03/2008
Parasites And Global Change: Past Patterns, Future Projections (Science Daily)
Throughout history, environmental disturbances and global climate change have strongly influenced how humans are affected by parasites, according to one parasitologist.
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10/30/2008
November 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights (EurekAlert!)
( Geological Society of America ) Geology topics include a new model for Grand Canyon erosion; opal formation on Mars; the beautiful and delicate preservation of soft tissues in the Burgess Shale of Canada; Ediacaran atmosphere, ocean, and fossil preservation, including that of an eight-armed ocean-dweller in both China and Australia; a new technique for seismic hazard studies; and arsenic ...
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10/27/2008
Is Focusing on "Hot Spots" the Key to Preserving Biodiversity? (Scientific American)
In the field of conservation, success stories about saving individual species abound. Bald eagles have recovered from their bout with the pesticide DDT; from fewer than 500 breeding pairs in 1963, the population in the lower 48 states has grown to nearly 10,000 breeding pairs, such that they are no longer listed even as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Gray wolves have returned to ...
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10/27/2008
Robbing lecturers to pay students (Malta Today)
Alternattiva Demokratika Chairman, Arnold Cassola, has expressed his dismay on the EU’s postponement of its decision on measures to combat climate change and urged the Maltese Government not to give up in its bid to see the EU’s climate change strategy to be in place by the end of the year.
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10/25/2008
Parasites and global change: Past patterns, future projections (High Plains Journal)
Throughout history, environmental disturbances and global climate change have strongly influenced how humans are affected by parasites, according to parasitologist Eric P. Hoberg. He works at the Agricultural Research Service Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory in Beltsville, Md.
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