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Impact of land use activity in the Amazon basin evaluated
Posted from ScienceDaily: Ecology News 7 days ago
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Portions of the Amazon basin are experiencing a transition in energy and water cycles. Evidence suggests that the Amazon may also be transitioning from a net carbon sink to a net source. This research shows that although the Amazon is resilient to individual disturbances, such as drought, multiple d... (original story)
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How lemurs fight climate change
Posted from ecology news from mongabay.com 15 days ago
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Kara Moses may have never become a biologist if not for a coin toss. The coin, which came up heads and decided Moses' direction in college, has led her on a sinuous path from studying lemurs in captivity to environmental writing, and back to lemurs, only this time tracking them in their natural habi... (original story)
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Pet trade, palm oil, and poaching: the challenges of saving the 'forgotten bear'
Posted from ecology news from mongabay.com 21 days ago
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Siew Te Wong is one of the few scientists who study sun bears (Ursus malayanus). He spoke with Laurel Neme on her "The WildLife" radio show and podcast about the interesting biological characteristics of this rare Southeast Asian bear, threats to the species and what is being done to help them. Sun ... (original story)
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The ocean crisis: hope in troubled waters, an interview with Carl Safina
Posted from ecology news from mongabay.com 21 days ago
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Being compared—by more than one reviewer—to Henry Thoreau and Rachel Carson would make any nature writer's day. But add in effusive reviews that compare one to a jazz musician, Ernest Hemingway, and Charles Darwin, and you have a sense of the praise heaped on Carl Safina for his newest work, The... (original story)
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Putting people to work: restoring our ecosystems, sequestering carbon
Posted from ecology news from mongabay.com 21 days ago
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President Obama's sole focus of his September 8th speech to the United States Congress was job creation. He closed his speech by summoning an earlier time of promise: "President Kennedy once said, ' Our problems are man-made—therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he want... (original story)
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Lessons from the world's longest study of rainforest fragments
Posted from ecology news from mongabay.com 21 days ago
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For over 30 years, hundreds of scientists have scoured eleven forest fragments in the Amazon seeking answers to big questions: how do forest fragments' species and microclimate differ from their intact relatives? Will rainforest fragments provide a safe haven for imperiled species or are they last s... (original story)
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Critically Endangered lemurs disperse seeds, store carbon
Posted from ecology news from mongabay.com 21 days ago
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Many tropical plants depend on other species to carry their progeny far-and-wide. Scientists are just beginning to unravel this phenomenon, known as seed dispersal, which is instrumental in supporting the diversity and richness of tropical forests. Researchers have identified a number of animal seed... (original story)
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Photos: camera traps reveal oil's unexpected impact on Arctic birds
Posted from ecology news from mongabay.com 21 days ago
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A study in the Alaskan Arctic, employing camera traps, has shown that oil drilling impacts migrating birds in an unexpected way. The study found that populations of opportunistic predators, which prey on bird eggs or fledglings, may increase in oil drilling areas, putting extra pressure on nesting ... (original story)
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Elephants: the gardeners of Asia's and Africa's forests
Posted from ecology news from mongabay.com 21 days ago
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It seems difficult to imagine elephants delicately tending a garden, but these pachyderms may well be the world's weightiest horticulturalist. Elephants both in Asia and Africa eat abundant amounts of fruit when available; seeds pass through their guts, and after expelled—sometimes tens of miles d... (original story)
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Saving (and studying) one of Nigeria's last montane forests
Posted from ecology news from mongabay.com 21 days ago
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Between 2000 and 2010, Nigeria lost nearly a third (31 percent) of its forest cover, while its primary forests suffered even worse: in just five years (2000 to 2005) over half of the nation's primary forests were destroyed, the highest rate in the world during that time. Yet, Nigeria's dwindling for... (original story)
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