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.
Mix of endocrine disrupters a dangerous cocktail
Many young men have a low sperm count and more and more boys are born with malformed sexual organs. A little less than five per cent of all Danish boys are,…
Ocean's fiercest predators now vulnerable to extinction
Now, the global status of large sharks has been assessed by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), which is widely recognized as the most comprehensive,…
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…