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Science & Tech News tagged with ecology

Eco Sleuths Use DNA Bar-Coding to Nail Poachers, Map Species
Science & Tech  (tags: ecology, biologists, DNA, environment, scientists, poachers, wildlife )

Simone
- 18 days ago - beta.thehindu.com
DNA analysis will now be used to solve the most widely perpetrated crimes today - those against the ecology. Biologists are now taking the DNA route to track the effects of global warming on the world's species or for identifying a piece of dried meat
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Venomous Sea Snakes Play Heads Or Tails With Their Predators
Science & Tech  (tags: science, marine life, ecology, sea snakes, venomous, research, study )

Dee
- 111 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily-In a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published August 5 in Marine Ecology.
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Effects of Climate Change on Infectious Diseases Questioned By Ecologists
Science & Tech  (tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses, environment, ecology, effects, science, research, scientists, study, technology, discovery, environment, humans, interesting )

Barb
- 227 days ago - virtualmedicalcentre.com
Recent research has predicted that climate change may expand the scope of human infectious diseases. A new review, however, argues that climate change may have a negligible effect on pathogens or even reduce their ranges...
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Speedy Songbirds
Science & Tech  (tags: Earth, environment, ecology, birds, songbirds, science )

Scarlett
- 284 days ago - blogs.nature.com
Tiny geolocating "backpacks" have helped scientists discern that songbirds can migrate three times as fast as previously thought, as reported in Science.
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America Ponders Pika Protection
Science & Tech  (tags: Earth, environment, ecology, science, pika, animals, endangered )

Scarlett
- 284 days ago - blogs.nature.com
A small, rabbit-like animal in US may soon have something in common with the polar bear. The US Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether the American pika (Ochotona princeps) should be protected under the endangered species act.
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Scientists Dismayed By 7 Vanishing Whales
Science & Tech  (tags: world, puget sound, orca, killer whales, population decline, oceans, stock market, environment, news, habitat, research, scientists, science, study, tech, technology, endangered, nature, protection, wildlife, ecology )

SirRobert
- 395 days ago - cnn.com
Seven Puget Sound Orca killer whales are missing and feared to be dead, in what scientists say could be the largest decline in nearly a decade. If comapared to the economic crisis, this is far worse than the stock market drop!
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Our Planet Is Running Out of Clean Water
Science & Tech  (tags: world, environment, water, crisis, science, tech, humans, health, ecology, Climate Change )

SirRobert
- 431 days ago - cnn.com
A severe water shortage is on the way. A film argues accurate points of prediction. Today one-sixth of the world's population tries to live without access to clean drinking water.
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Hawaiian Plant, Thought To Be Newcomer, Actually Shaped Ecology Of The Islands From The Beginning
Science & Tech  (tags: ecology, biodiversity, hawaii )

Ingrid
- 586 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have discovered data that suggests one of Hawaii's most dominant plants, Metrosideros, has been a resident of the islands far longer than previously believed.
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Female Katydids Prefer Mates 'Cool' in Winter and 'Hot' in Summer
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, study, Neoconocephalus triops, katydid, biological sciences, ecology, habitat, mating calls, climate )

J.
- 624 days ago - munews.missouri.edu
COLUMBIA, Mo. - According to scientists one species of katydid may owe its ecological success and expanded habitat range to the ability of male katydids to adjust their mating calls to attract females.
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Sluggish Tuatara Fastest in DNA Evolution
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, DNA, evolution, ecology, dinosaurs )

Tom
- 628 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
Tuatara, called living dinosaurs, have not changed much physically over very long periods of evolution going back millions of years. But analysis of their old bones in New Zealand has shown their DNA has evolved faster than any other animal species.
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A Difficult Youth Is a Good Thing for a Fish
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, study, research, science, marine biology, evolution, ecology, habitat, bluehead wrasse, ocean )

J.
- 666 days ago - ia.ucsb.edu
The Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) at UC Santa Barbara,want to know where the young of many marine organisms are coming from and going to, and what factors determine whether they survive.'
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Two Blind Fish Can Make Sighted Offspring.
Science & Tech  (tags: science, ecology, genetics, interesting, wildlife, fish, discovery, environment )

Caitlin
- 687 days ago - nature.com
The offspring of crossbred blind cave fish see like their surface-dwelling cousins, shown in the background.
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Key Found To Moonlight Romance On The Reef
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, research, science, environment, habitat, oceans, marine biology, fish, coral reefs, ecology, wildlife )

J.
- 767 days ago - coralcoe.org.au
An ancient light-sensitive gene has been isolated by researchers that appears to act as a trigger for the annual mass spawning of corals across a third of a million square kilometers of Australia's Great Barrier Reef,shortly after a full moon.
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Genetic Differences in Clover Make One Type Toxic
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, discovery, interesting, study, endangered plants, botany, nature, genetics, biochemistry, research, ecology )

J.
- 785 days ago - news-info.wustl.edu
Some clovers have evolved genes that help the plant produce cyanide to protect itself against little herbivores, such as snails, slugs and voles, that eat clover. Other clover plants that do not make cyanide are found in climates with colder temperatures.
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