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Scientists Unravel Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish
With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the ...
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Read morePlants prefer their kin, but crowd out competition when sharing a pot with strangers
The research, which appears in the current issue of the American Journal of Botany, suggests non-kin plants will not only compete underground for soil nutrients, but will attempt to muscle out the com...
Life Sciences | Read moreAnts: Flexible in Tending the Brood
This demonstrates: It is not only the genes, but also the conditions experienced during individual development that account for flexible behavior in an insect society.Genes are not everything:...
Life Sciences | Read moreCentral Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic
The Congo Basin — with its massive, lush tropical rain forest — was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana...
Earth Sciences | Read moreCalifornia's Ancient Kelp Forest
The kelp forest tripled in size from the peak of glaciation 20,000 years ago to about 7,500 years ago, then shrank by up to 70 percent to present day levels, according to the study by Rick Grosberg, p...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreStudies show marine reserves can be an effective tool for managing fisheries
A recent study in the Gulf of California, for example, confirmed the validity of a key concept behind marine reserves--the idea that offspring produced in a protected area can replenish the stocks of ...
Life Sciences | Read moreResearchers Hail Innovative Plan to Save Rainforest, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Ecuadorian proposal, known as the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, would protect a large area of pristine Amazon rainforest, by leaving untouched nearly one billion barrels of oil that lies beneath the Yasu...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreNorth Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting as Ocean Temperatures Warm
About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreWolves, moose and biodiversity: An unexpected connection
A large and unexpected one, say wildlife biologists from Michigan Technological University. Joseph Bump, Rolf Peterson and John Vucetich report in the November 2009 issue of the journal Ecology that t...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreFSU, Duke Partner to Study Impact of Gulf’s ‘Dead Zone’ on Shrimp Fishery
Florida State will serve as the lead institution for the collaborative project, which is funded by a four-year, $702,969 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Norther...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreSandia, Others Funded to Sequence Microbial Genes for Potential Biofuels Use
“This award positions a very talented team to collaboratively apply DOE’s unique facilities in genomics and systems biology to the important challenge of sustainable bioenergy production,” said Grant ...
Life Sciences | Read moreResearch Could Boost Coastal Economics with Crustacean Molting on Demand
Soft-shelled blue crabs are a delicacy enjoyed by food lovers each spring and early summer when the crustaceans naturally molt their hard outer shell in the wild. Molting is the process by which the c...
Business and Finance | Read moreOcean Acidification May Contribute to Global Shellfish Decline
In one of the first studies looking at the effect of ocean acidification on shellfish, Stephanie Talmage, PhD candidate, and Professor Chris Gobler showed that the larval stages of these shellfish spe...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreGlobal warming cycles threaten endangered primate species
This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and Associate Professor of Biology Eric Post examined how El Niño warming affected the abundance of four New World monkeys over decades. The...
Life Sciences | Read moreWhen ants attack: Researchers recreate chemicals that trigger aggression in Argentine ants
The new study, to be published Wednesday, Oct. 28, in the open-access journal BMC Biology, sheds light on the factors influencing the social behavior of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, and prov...
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