Invertebrate diversity
Invertebrate diversity
Biological Invasions Increasing Due To Freshwater Impoundments, Says CU-Boulder Study
Main Category: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Article Date: 04 Sep 2008 - 1:00 PDT The growing number of dams and other impoundments is increasing the number of invasive species and the speed at which they ... (more...)
shipwrecks and deep-sea oil rigs
The findings confirm that oil and gas platforms, as well as the wrecks themselves, are serving as hard surfaces, supporting hundreds of life forms. (more...)
Disproving Conventional Wisdom On Diversity Of Marine Fossils And Extinction Rates
Alroy, a researcher with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at UC Santa Barbara, is the principal author of the new report published in Science. (more...)
5 September 2008
Its a thoroughly miserable morning here in the valley with a strong east wind blowing yet more rain across the fells. (more...)
UCSB researcher leads worldwide study on marine fossil diversity
It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks he's disproved much of the conventional wisdom about ... (more...)
River as classroom
Asheville This summer the French Broad River was turned into a classroom for 40 local and visiting students. (more...)
Blackberries can be held back with a little work
Question: How do I get rid of the blackberries that continually are encroaching and taking up more and more of the backyard? Answer: Keeping thorny blackberry vines at bay is a universal challenge to most ... (more...)
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Ancient marine invertebrate diversity less explosive than thought
Diversity among the ancestors of such marine creatures as clams, sand dollars and lobsters showed only a modest rise beginning 144 million years ago with no clear trend afterwards, according to an international ... (more...)
Pacific shellfish ready to invade Atlantic
As the Arctic Ocean warms this century, shellfish, snails and other animals from the Pacific Ocean will resume an invasion of the northern Atlantic that was interrupted by cooling conditions three million years ... (more...)
County will count the birds but not the bees
An open letter to Simcoe County Council: The Environmental Impact Statement is the first line of defense for the County's environment. (more...)
A festival of grovelling to terrorists
The threat to freedom here does not come from a few Islamic radicals, but from the invertebrate liberals of the cultural establishment who have so lost faith in themselves t... (more...)
Do microorganisms have biogeography?
... eres, 1997; Bohonak & Jenkins, 2003; Fenchel & Finlay, 2004), might explain why prokaryotes and some microscopic eukaryotes, such as protists and small invertebrates, h ave acquired global distributions. ... All this evidence points out that there might be a high degree of cryptic diversity in the microbial world, and that there are more restrictions to the dispersal o... (more...)
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Vernal pools
In Eastern Pennsylvania, most vernal that serve as breeding locales for invertebrate and invertebrate species alike. ... There are many good field guides and other books that will help you learn more about vernal pools and their value to furthering nature?s legacy and wild diversity.... (more...)
The purple monster
It?s late August, and one of the most maligned flowers to be introduced to North America is bl (more...)
The evolution and evolvability of modularity in the brain
... f vertebrate and invertebrate embryos (cf. this post).... (more...)
5 September 2008
This too prompted a fair bit of discussion and opened quite a few eyes to the diversity of invertebrate life in the river.... (more...)
Gorillas make eye contact, and we save them, while frogs hop at our feet and struggle for recognition
Naskrecki, the director of Conservation International?s Invertebrate Diversity Initiative, and research associate at Harvard?s... (more...)
Life Photo Meme: Honor an Invertebrate(s) Day!
The artsy fartsy side of me loves insects because I find inspiration in their diversity. ... So here's to you invertebrates - thanks for making my day little more inspired.... (more...)
New Species of Giant clam discovered!!!
Giant clams are among the most spectacular but also the most endangered marine invertebrates. ... ]. The diversity of giant clams is extremely low because of reliction in this Tethyan group [3, 4].... (more...)
i got the jesus on the chain but it dont mean shit
... but it also reminds me of invertebrate zoology because its in the same room. anyways today i had a revelation, duh. im always figuring things out. ... less genetic diversity, leads to kind of interbreeding, but not like sister-brother. just with similar genotypes.... (more...)