A new study on biological invasions based on extensive data of alien species from 10 taxonomic groups and 28 European countries has shown that patterns of established alien species richness are more related ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 20, 2010 not rated yet 0 |

After 21 years of work, Cornell researchers are spreading the word about an on-farm biocontrol method to solve the problems caused by the destructive invasive species alfalfa snout beetle (ASB).

Biology - Ecology

Nov 29, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

Lions, bears, monkeys, crocodiles, parrots and iguanas may seem inoffensive at first glance when they're behind bars in zoos. But some exotic species can escape and become invasive species. This has been confirmed ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 23, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

According to research published today by a University of Cincinnati faculty member, native plants in southwestern Ohio are flowering significantly earlier, a finding he attributes, at least in part, to global ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 16, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

An international team led by the Forest Technology Centre of Catalonia has carried out the first large-scale study of the threats facing freshwater fish in the Mediterranean basin. Invasive species, along ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 11, 2010 not rated yet 0

The latest weapon in the fight against Asian carp doesn't look much like a weapon at all: It's a 13-mile concrete and steel mesh fence that splits the narrow divide between the Des Plaines River and the Chicago Sanitary and ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 01, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

The most comprehensive assessment of the world's vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one-fifth of species threatened. However, the situation would be worse were it not for current global conservation efforts, according ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 26, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A potentially important invasive insect species – the fruit fly Drosophila suzukii, or spotted wing Drosophila (SWD) – winged its way to North and South Carolina this summer. The insect has the ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 19, 2010 not rated yet 0

Faster development of the promising field of cellulosic biofuels - the renewable energy produced from grasses and trees - is being significantly hampered by a "deep and thorny regulatory thicket" that makes almost impossible ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 01, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 3 |

A black, two-millimeter-long wasp from East Africa is helping wage war on one of its own kind—the Erythrina gall wasp, an invasive species that's decimated Hawaii's endemic wiliwili (Erythrina sandwicensis) and in ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 28, 2010 not rated yet 0

When packing for a manned mission to Mars or the Moon, the best thing to bring may not be food or fuel, but specially designed organisms that can create those things for you.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 23, 2010 3.6 / 5 (5) 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have appealed for a halt to plans to build a road through the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania in 2012, saying it will be an environmental disaster.

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 17, 2010 3.6 / 5 (11) 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two ecological issues of increasing concern are the conservation of threatened and endangered species and the management of invasive species. A study by University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology postdoctoral ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 03, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 1

A new ecological network is urgently needed in Northern Ireland to ensure the continued survival of its precious lizard population, according to researchers at Queen's University Belfast.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 26, 2010 not rated yet 0

How should a country respond to a biological invader that reaches its shores via cargo shipped as international trade?

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 23, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0