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NEWS FEATURE 27 March 2020 Several cancer and HIV drugs have come from marine organisms, but scientists worry that a new agreement to save species could hinder some research. Olive Heffernan Olive Heffernan is a science journalist in Dublin. Search for this author in: A new treaty will govern uses of organisms from the open […] More
Site description and soil property measurements The soil warming experiment was set up at the Kessler Atmospheric and Ecological Field Station in McClain County, OK (34° 59′ N, 96° 31′ W). The mean annual temperature is 16.3 °C and mean annual precipitation is 914 mm [20]. The experiment was a blocked split-plot design and initiated in July, […] More
1. Hossain, M. S. et al. Background paper for preparation of the 7th Five Year Plan 2016-2020 on opportunities and strategies for ocean and river resources management. Economic Relation Department, Ministry of Planning, The Government of Bangladesh, 67 pp (2014a). 2. Kumar, S. P. et al. Is the biological productivity in the Bay of Bengal […] More
1. Fischer, A., Marshall, P. & Camp, A. Disturbances in deciduous temperate forest ecosystems of the northern hemisphere: their effects on both recent and future forest development. Biodivers. Conserv. 22, 1863–1893 (2013). Article Google Scholar 2. Frelich L. E. Forest dynamics and disturbance regimes. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002). 3. Seidl, R., Schelhaas, M.-J., Rammer, […] More
Systematic review On the 26th of January 2018 we used Web of Science (version 5.27) to find peer-reviewed research articles from 1900–2018 on plastic ingestion by any organism using the search string ((plastic OR plastics OR microplastic* OR mesoplastic* OR macroplastic*) AND (ingest* OR absorb* OR devour* OR eat* OR digest* OR consum* OR swallow* […] More
1. Díaz, S. et al. Summary for Policymakers of the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, 2019). 2. Mittermeier, R. A. Megadiversity: Earth’s Biologically Wealthiest Nations (Agrupacion Sierra Madre, 1997). 3. Statistical Databases: Land Use Total (FAO, 2019); http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/GL 4. Liu, Y., […] More
Experimental overview An in situ field experiment was conducted over two years to examine the influence of larval density on initial settlement and post-settlement persistence, coral abundance and growth. Using a regression design, we tested 30 different larval densities of Acropora tenuis in a degraded reef environment. Larvae were initially confined within 30 individual flow-through […] More
The early detection of a species outside of its previous known distribution, including both native and invaded areas, triggers a series of cascading questions as to (1) the source of propagules (i.e., the donor region), (2) the mechanism by which they were transported and released into the recipient region, (3) the probability that the species […] More
