News tagged with population control
50 years of cereal leaf beetle management research
A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management provides a review of cereal leaf beetle biology, past and present management practices, and current research being conducted.
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Agricultural pest management program efficiency challenged by information diffusion barriers among farmers
While international pest management programs have long relied on farmer cooperation to spread pest control information at larger scales, a study by French researchers published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Bi ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Possible biological control discovered for pathogen devastating amphibians
Zoologists at Oregon State University have discovered that a freshwater species of zooplankton will eat a fungal pathogen which is devastating amphibian populations around the world.
Aug 26, 2011 |
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CDC: Food poisoning from salmonella up in US
(AP) -- More Americans got food poisoning last year, with salmonella cases driving the increase, the government reported Tuesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 07, 2011 |
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No safety in numbers for moths and butterflies
Scientists at the University of Leeds (UK) are to investigate how lethal viruses attack differently sized populations of moths and butterflies in research that may open the door to new methods of pest control.
May 10, 2011 |
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Family planning programs have success in developing countries, but need to be expanded
While many researchers generally credit the desire for smaller families for the decline in fertility rates in developing, low-income countries, new research suggests that prevention of unwanted births may actually be a larger ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 20, 2011 |
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More intensive methods needed to identify TB in HIV-prone populations
Identifying tuberculosis patients in Africa using passive methods is leaving many cases undiagnosed, according to researchers from the Netherlands, Kenya and the United States, who studied case detection methods in HIV-prone ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 14, 2011 |
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Hunting affects wolves more strongly than expected, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from 21 North American wolf populations, two Montana State University researchers have found that the recently proposed levels of hunting for Montana and Idaho wolves are likely ...
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Gender-bending fish on the rise in southern Alberta
Chemicals present in two rivers in southern Alberta are likely the cause of the feminization of fish say researchers at the University of Calgary who have published results of their study in the journal Environmental To ...
Jul 29, 2010 |
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Cycad pest uses small size to hide from predators
One way to keep from getting eaten is to run. But recent research at the University of Guam's Western Pacific Tropical Research Center shows that sometimes it's better to just hide.
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Study confirms classic theory on the origins of biodiversity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell study on the diversity of milkweed plants has used new techniques to prove an old theory that explains how the arms race between attacking insects and defended plants led to great ...
Sep 09, 2009 |
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