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.
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Energy-using Products Act (EuPA): a building stone for climate protection
Energy-using products are those products for whose use energy must be supplied in the form of electricity, fossil fuels or renewable energy resources. This…
Asia's odd-ball antelope faces migration crisis
The study, which appears in the latest issue of The Open Conservation Biology Journal, tracked saiga with GPS collars in Mongolia and discovered a “migration…
Clovis-age overkill didn't take out California's flightless sea duck
A team of six scientists, including Jon M. Erlandson of the University of Oregon, pronounced their verdict in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
New study changes conditions for Spanish brown bears
An international study being published this week in the Net edition of the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, shows that,…
New Window Opens on the Secret Life of Microbes: Scientists Develop First Microbial Profiles of Ecosystems
Nowhere is the principle of “strength in numbers” more apparent than in the collective power of microbes: despite their simplicity, these one-cell organisms –…
Ornithologists announce discovery of new bird species
Ornithologists, including one from Michigan State University, describe for science a new species of bird from the Togian Islands of Indonesia – Zosterops…