New study challenges old views about evolution of early life
A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has tested a popular hypothesis in paleo-ocean chemistry, and proved it false.
Dec 23, 2012
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Scientist develops a test method for the measurement of soil microbial diversity
The doctoral dissertation of Milja Vepsäläinen, M.Sc. (microbiology), prepared at the Finnish Environment Institute, involved developing a test pattern designed to measure soil biological diversity. The ...
Nov 09, 2012
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Birds' diverse traits survive Amazon fires
Biodiversity enhances ecosystems global drylands: researchers
An international team of researchers including Dr. Bertrand Boeken of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev suggest in a new study that plant biodiversity preservation is ...
Jan 30, 2012
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UNSW students sequence genome of the Wollemi Pine
(PhysOrg.com) -- UNSW students have sequenced the chloroplast genome of the ancient Wollemi Pine - a world first that could reveal how a "dinosaur" of the tree kingdom survived 200 million years of shifting ...
Dec 17, 2009
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Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal Differences
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different ...
Nov 05, 2009
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Alternative agricultural practices combine productivity and soil health
The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted ...
Jul 24, 2009
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