Ecology, The Environment and Conservation
This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.
innovations-report offers informative reports and articles on topics such as climate protection, landscape conservation, ecological systems, wildlife and nature parks and ecosystem efficiency and balance.
Small sea creatures may be the 'canaries in the coal mine' of climate change
Gretchen Hofmann, associate professor of biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has just returned from a research mission to Antarctica where…
Antarctic marine life under threat from warming seas
Antarctic marine communities resemble the primeval waters of millions years ago because modern predators – crabs and fish – are missing.But this is about to…
Antarctic life hung by a thread during ice ages
Although the area is covered in ice and bears witness to some of the most extreme cold on the planet, this ecosystem is dynamic, not static, and change here…
New tool for resolving fisheries conflicts
One possible solution, advanced by NSERC grantee Dr. Suzana Dragicevic of Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia involves digital maps and…
Tracking sulfur and nitrogen in snow provides clues to acidification
In forests of the northeastern United States, sulfate and nitrate are the dominant dissolved forms of sulfur and nitrogen in precipitation. In winter, these…
Oregon researchers study widespread areas of low oxygen off northwest coast
A team of scientists studying the California Current – a slow-moving mass of cold water that travels south along the coast from British Columbia to Baja…