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Microsoft scientist highlights urgent need for new computer models to address climate change
Two papers published in the journal Science today* by Microsoft Research ecologist Drew Purves together with research colleagues at Princeton University and universities in Madrid, Spain, highlight ...Reliance on unverifiable observations hinders successful conservation of wildlife species
... by supplying preliminary data, such as early warnings of population declines," said Kevin McKelvey, a research ecologist based in Missoula, Mont., and the study's lead investigator, "but conclusions ...Ouch! Taking a shot at plague
... impacted prairie-dog colonies were occupied by ferrets, but researchers do not know yet how many ferrets have died ... die-offs. Dr. Dean Biggins, a research ecologist and black-footed ferret expert at ...Biocontrol insect exacerbates invasive weed
... head," says Dean Pearson, lead author on the study and a research ecologist with the U.S.D.A. Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research station. "The larvae then overwinter in the seed heads for ...Wildfires result in loss of forests reserved by Northwest Forest Plan
... important factor of loss to old-growth than harvesting between 1993 and 2002," says Tom Spies, a research ecologist and co-author on a study on the dynamics of older forests. The study, which was ...Orphaned elephants forced to forge new bonds decades after ivory ban
... its kin to rebuild," said lead researcher Kathleen Gobush, Ph.D., a research ecologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency and a former doctoral student at the University of Washington ...Montana State University tracks warming trend in northwestern North America
... ran from 1938-1973 and 1974-1991. The researchers looked at different periods for Bozeman and Coldstream, ... monthly and annual trends. Dan Fagre, a research ecologist based in Glacier National Park, ...Origins of wolverine in California genetically verified
... this animal came to the Tahoe National Forest," said Bill Zielinski, one of the study's authors and a research ecologist at the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station. "But, this peer- ...Rhododendron expansion may increase the chance of landslides on Southern Appalachian slopes
... published online in JGR-Earth Surface, SRS researchers Chelcy Ford and Jim Vose, along ... cohesive strength of soil in some hollows," says Vose, research ecologist and project leader of the SRS Coweeta ...Northwestern United States could face more tamarisk invasion by century's end
... than one percent of these areas is currently occupied by the species," said Becky Kerns, a research ecologist with the Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC) who led the ...Panama butterfly migrations linked to El Niño, climate change
... ," said Robert Srygley, former Smithsonian post doctoral fellow who is now a research ecologist at the US Agricultural Research Service, the chief scientific research agency of the U.S. Department of ...
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