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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Chirp Thrills Farmland birds don't seem to mind wind turbines, says study		01 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 10:50 AM on 01 Oct 2008 The sights and sounds of wind turbines don't seem to bother farmland birds, according to research published in the Journal of Applied Ecology. Scientists studied the effects of two wind farms in eastern England on 3,000 birds of 23 species, and found that only pheasants seemed to be disgruntled enough to move farther away from the turbines. (Incidentally, if we had a band, we'd call oursel ...
Topics: biodiversity, energy, England, news, renewable energy, scientific research, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Common Baby, Light My Ire Many of world's common birds are taking a population dive		23 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 10:21 AM on 23 Sep 2008 Some of the world's most common bird species have suffered big population declines in the last few decades due to habitat loss, invasive species, industrial agriculture, and logging, says a new report from BirdLife International. The report found that in the last 25 years, some 45 percent of Europe's common bird species have been in decline, as have over 80 percent of Australia's ...
Topics: biodiversity, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Alien invaders: More to the story, part 2 NYT critiques alien biology	Erik Hoffner	10 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Last year, I posted an argument that not all alien species are bad, based on a study of the invasive aquatic plant Hydrilla; I got pretty bloodied, not only because it's an unpopular notion in enviro circles, but also because of my clumsy presentation and defense of the idea. Yesterday's New York Times ran a feature called 'Friendly Invaders' that says rather well what I was angling on, and then it goes a lot further. The scientists profiled make the case that very few ...
Topics: climate, biodiversity, scientific research (all these topics)

The Invasion Equation Could invasive species be a good thing?		09 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 10:58 AM on 09 Sep 2008 Could invasive species' bad reputation be undeserved? Bucking conventional wisdom, new research suggests that if exotic species aren't predators of natives, competition by nonnative species can actually improve biodiversity. A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences notes that just three of New Zealand's 2,065 native plants have gone extinct, despite introduction of 22,000 ...
Topics: biodiversity, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Bird by bird A third of avian species on land could disappear this century as a result of climate change	Katy Balatero	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In more depressing bird news, researchers at my alma mater estimate that up to 30 percent of all land-dwelling bird species could be extinct by 2100 as a result of global climate change. The study, published this week in the journal Conservation Biology ($ub. req'd), modeled bird population responses to changes in vegetation for over 8,000 species and 60 scenarios, and is one of the first analyses of extinction rates to incorporate information from the recent IPCC rep ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, habitat loss, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Those Who Repeat the Past Are Doomed to Know It Study of fossil record predicts climate change could fuel mass extinction		24 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 7:42 AM on 24 Oct 2007 Photo: iStockphoto Climate change may fuel a mass extinction in which half of all plant and animal species could -- how to put this delicately? -- exit stage left, according to a new study. If the past 520 million years of fossil records are any predictor of the future, a globally warmed world will not bode well for biodiversity, researchers ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Possible new species discovered Scientists uncover underwater community on Atlantic seamount	Andrew Sharpless	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Scientists encountered what may be a new species of seed shrimp, a translucent crustacean that swims at a depth of 50 to 200 meters. On a seamount in the Northern Atlantic, remote-operated vehicles shed light on what one researcher referred to as an underwater 'continent.' Clutching to the rocky cliffs was a menagerie of corals and sponges, as well as brittle stars and starfish, sea cucumbers, and worms. Some of the creatures are quite rare, not found anywhere el ...
Topics: biodiversity, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

Someone Alert Ben and Jerry Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing twice as fast as rainforest, study says		08 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Someone Alert Ben and Jerry Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing twice as fast as rainforest, study says Forget the rainforest: the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific oceans are vanishing twice as quickly, researchers say. The Indo-Pacific region, home to 75 percent of the world's coral reefs, has lost nearly 600 square miles of reef each year since the late 1960s. In addition, coral cover -- ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, news, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

Power of a map Washington watersheds deserve better data	Erik Hoffner	14 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Water-typing is the name for a process of identifying and cateorizing streams, lakes, and wetlands in terms of their importance for biodiversity and human use. It's a pretty basic inventory developed by the Washington Department of Natural Resources in the 1970s, and it works, but only when it's done right. The accompanying image shows what happens when it's done wrong. In January, this important habitat for fish was logged without any protection simply because the ...
Topics: biodiversity, fishing, scientific research (all these topics)

Where's Biodee this time? Nice job, Einstein	biodiversivist	11 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I'll give you some hints. Just a few days ago, a man walked on a stage a few hundred yards from where I sit to accept an honorary degree in science. Following is the speech that preceded the award: As Einstein is to relativity you are to biodiversity -- the insight that our world is unimaginatively rich in its number of species, whose lives are inextricably woven together. This idea has powered much subsequent biological research and re-shaped forever human underst ...
Topics: biodiversity, scientific research (all these topics)

Alien invaders: More to the story They may not all be bad.	Erik Hoffner	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Two recent news stories from the Chesapeake illustrate well the opposite poles in the debate on invasive species. The first details the appearance of the cuddly-sounding mitten crab in Chesapeake waters, an Asian species that has also hitchhiked in ships to California, Germany and Great Britain. Articles about it use terms like alien and exotic for the little fellas, often pitting them against the beleaguered native blue crabs. So the news that a foreign species ...
Topics: biodiversity, scientific research (all these topics)

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