News tagged with landscape corridors
Beneficial plant 'spillover' effect seen from landscape corridors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a North Carolina State University biologist and colleagues shows that using landscape corridors, the "superhighways" that connect isolated patches of habitat, to protect certain plants has a large ...
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Country cousins: Climate connections and land urbanization dynamics
(Phys.org) -- What’s in a name? Quite a bit in climate science, where the term teleconnection refers not to digital communications, but rather to a recurring and persistent large-scale pattern of pre ...
May 28, 2012 |
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Tracking endangered elephants with satellite technology
A hundred years ago wild elephants on the Malay Peninsular could be counted in their thousands — now there are less than 1500. Over the last century around 50 per cent of forest cover in Peninsular Malaysia ...
May 23, 2012 |
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The real cost of coal is quickly adding up
"Cheap coal" is a myth. And like all myths, we accept its wisdom without thinking.
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May 21, 2012 |
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Jungle cats caught on camera in Belize
A camera trap survey, set up by scientists from Ya’axché Conservation Trust, has caught pictures of Central America’s two big cats: the jaguar and the puma (known locally as the red tiger).
May 17, 2012 |
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The desert Southwest: Oasis or mirage?
(Phys.org) -- The American West has a drinking problem. On farms and in cities, we are guzzling water at an alarming rate.
May 09, 2012 |
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Traffic harms Asturian amphibians
The roads are the main cause of fragmenting the habitats of many species, especially amphibians, as they cause them to be run over and a loss of genetic diversity. Furthermore, traffic harms two abundant species ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Virginia Tech wildlife researchers explore DNA research to help save Nepal's Bengal tigers
Tigers are fast disappearing from the modern world. The 2010 tiger census in Nepal estmates that only 155 of the Bengal tiger subspecies still exist there. Conserving tigers is a top priority for the government ...
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Nowhere to hide: Study finds future of Sumatran tigers threatened by human disturbances
Three of the world's subspecies of tigers are now extinct. A new study found that the Sumatran tiger subspecies is nearing extinction as a result of human activities, particularly the conversion of natural ...
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Satellite study reveals critical habitat and corridors for world's rarest gorilla
Conservationists working in Central Africa to save the world's rarest gorilla have good news: the Cross River gorilla has more suitable habitat than previously thought, including vital corridors that, if protected, ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Preserved habitat near national parks helps species conservation
National parks often are established to help preserve species native to a particular region, but it appears that some species preservation is more successful if a significant portion of land adjacent to a ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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