25 Jul, 2007 12:00 pm
A report on the Metagenomics 2007 meeting*. For those who do not know - metagenomics is the simultaneous sequencing of the genomes of communities of microbes... 11 Jul, 2007 07:01 pm
Andy Hector is a specialist on biodiversity. According to his study published today in Nature,... 5 Jul, 2007 10:06 am
Biodiversity in the Arctic is undergoing rapid changes, which is a serious concern to scientists. On the other hand new access to the Arctic waters could... 4 Jul, 2007 03:51 pm
Terry Callaghan, professor of Arctic biology states that the biodiversity in the Arctic is in grave danger, which could have parallel consequences for... 7 Jun, 2007 04:11 pm
Disease is one of the primary factors causing the global loss of reef building corals. Results from a paper recently published in PLoS Biology indicate... 29 May, 2007 07:30 pm
Biodiversity?the great variety of populations, species, and ecosystems?is now being eroded at a rate not seen since the last mass extinction some 65 million... 28 May, 2007 12:19 pm
Past variations in ocean climate have affected location and migrations of fish stocks. This indicates that global warming will have similar effects... 9 May, 2007 01:10 pm
It's a story that everyone knows. Some 65 million years ago a giant asteroid slams into the Earth. The resulting catastrophe spreads around the world,... 4 May, 2007 12:45 pm
Species that used to start fruiting in September now do so in July or August. The end of the season now ends later. It used to be in October,... 3 May, 2007 12:04 pm
The idea of niche dimension is that greater diversity at lower levels in a food web allows greater diversity at higher levels: greater diversity of limiting... |