News tagged with ecologist
Related topics: species , climate change
Satellites reveal surprising connection between beetle attacks, wildfire
If your summer travels have taken you across the Rocky Mountains, you've probably seen large swaths of reddish trees dotting otherwise green forests. While it may look like autumn has come early to the mountains, ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Canada's lost salmon found
Sockeye salmon, which mysteriously vanished last year prompting a government inquiry, are expected to return to Canada's Fraser River this month in numbers not seen since 1913, officials said Wednesday.
Aug 25, 2010 |
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Reconciliation ecology: The fun way to adapt to climate change
A University of Arizona ecologist plans to involve Tucson neighborhoods in a giant test of reconciliation ecology.
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Study challenges long-held assumption about competition in disturbed ecosystems
Hurricanes, wildfires and influxes of pollutants create disturbances that can put ecological systems under extreme stress. Ecologists had believed that at times like these, competition between species becomes ...
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Study provides new standards for reliable fisheries
The many populations of sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska act like a diversified portfolio of investments, buffering fisheries and incomes from the ups and downs of particular stocks. Sockeye salmon are one of the most ...
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Setting time limits for hunting and fishing may help maintain wildlife populations
Hunting and fishing quotas limit the number of game animals or fish an individual may take based on harvests from the previous year. But according to a new study co-authored by University of Minnesota ecologist Craig Packer, ...
May 13, 2010 |
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Eminent group of scientists call for moratorium on issuance of mountaintop mining permits
Based on a comprehensive analysis of the latest scientific findings and new data, a group of the nation's leading environmental scientists are calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S Army Corps of ...
Jan 07, 2010 |
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New study provides insight on energy development and sage-grouse habitat in the intermountain West
A study released October 14th in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE will shed new light on oil and gas development potential in the Intermountain West. Maps accompanying the study show the impacts to gre ...
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Research shows that animals need time to survive
To understand how climate change may affect species survival, we need to understand how climate influences their time-keeping.
Aug 01, 2009 |
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Scientists publish the discoveries that saved the large blue butterfly
On the 25th anniversary of the project that brought the large blue butterfly back from extinction in the United Kingdom, ecologists are for the first time publishing the decades of research that helped them ...
Jun 16, 2009 |
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High human impact ocean areas along US West Coast revealed
Climate change, fishing and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United States.
May 11, 2009 |
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Ecologists put price tag on invasive species
Invasive species can disrupt natural and human-made ecosystems, throwing food webs out of balance and damaging the services they provide to people. Now scientists have begun to put a price tag on this damage. In a study ...
Apr 20, 2009 |
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A venomous tale: Vipers shape lizards' tail-shedding abilities
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan ecologists and their colleagues have answered a question that has puzzled biologists for more than a century: What is the main factor that determines a lizard's ability ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Housing shortage alters reproductive behaviour in blue tits
(PhysOrg.com) -- Increased competition for rare breeding sites causes female blue tits to invest more time in their current brood, to spend more time feeding their offspring and also to produce more male offspring ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Crafty Australian crayfish cheat
Nestled just off the east coast of Australia, picturesque North Stradbroke Island is a haven for local wildlife. Yet some of the inhabitants of the island's creeks and swamps are far from peaceful. Slender crayfish are aggressive ...
Feb 27, 2009 |
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