Sentences with phrase «from biodiversity studies»

DNA barcodes can be used to identify and study species in many contexts, from biodiversity studies to forensic studies.

Metagenomics: Tools and Insights for Analyzing Next - Generation Sequencing Data Derived from Biodiversity Studies — Anastasis Oulas — Bioinform Biol Insights — May 2015

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From our broad range of collections down to specific case studies on animals, plants and ecosystems, we're studying a range of Australian animals and plants to better understand, protect and strengthen our rich biodiversity.

A case study from BASC's Green Shoots biodiversity programme has featured in the latest FACE manifesto.

Reductions in biodiversity from illegal wildlife trade can have other substantial negative human health impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

This study in Science, published on April 18, underlines this emerging reality, giving it a new and worrisome precision and leading Nick Gotelli and his co-authors to conclude that there «is need to expand the focus of research and planning from biodiversity loss to biodiversity change.»

The study, published today in PNAS and led by scientists at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F), the University of Vienna and UCL, analysed a global database of 45,984 records detailing the first invasions of 16,019 established alien species from 1500 until 2005 to investigate the dynamics of how alien species spread worldwide.

The study found that protecting natural forests avoids emissions that would otherwise result from logging and land clearing while also conserving biodiversity.

«One can already suspect that the mutation rate of carnivores, especially bears, will be most likely different from that of primates,» argues bioinformaticist Axel Janke of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Germany, one of the researchers behind the study published in Science.

Prof. Jean Paul Metzger from the University of Sao Paulo, another lead author of the study, said: «Our study shows a clear threshold of biodiversity losses with deforestation; below this threshold, not only many species disappear, but the functions they perform in the ecosystem will also decline, many of which are highly beneficial to humans.

Palaeontologists from Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands and the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, studied the fossil using high energy X-rays at the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, revealing the structure and development of teeth and bones.

«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services suggests that higher plant diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

«We are the first to examine all important ecological processes of forest regeneration in a global meta - analysis of existing case studies,» explains Dr. Eike Lena Neuschulz, the lead author of the study from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center.

A recent study showed that poisoning dingoes by dropping tainted meat from aeroplanes changes the dynamics of the ecosystem and reduces biodiversity.

«Previously, the debate has been about whether biodiversity is regulated mainly by the interaction between species or the external environment,» explains researcher and leader of the study Samuli Lehtonen from the Biodiversity Unit of the Universibiodiversity is regulated mainly by the interaction between species or the external environment,» explains researcher and leader of the study Samuli Lehtonen from the Biodiversity Unit of the UniversiBiodiversity Unit of the University of Turku.

A new study from Stockholm University shows that the ancient pasture burning maintains biodiversity and habitats for alpine plant species not found anywhere else.

The study confirms experience from European heathlands and other REDD + projects in the tropics, that ecosystem services such as timber production and carbon sequestration often compromise other services, such as biodiversity and local livelihoods.

Professor Michael Benton from the University of Bristol, another co-author of the study, said: «This work illustrates a case of the impact of climate change on the evolution of animal biodiversity, and shows that for crocodilians, warming phases of our earth's history constitute ideal opportunities to colonise new environments.»

Experts Lluís Cardona, Àlex Aguilar and Marcel Clusa from the Department of Animal Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona (UB), and Carlos Carreras and Marta Pascual (member of IRBio), from the Department of Genetics of UB, participated in these studies.

Dr Richard Unsworth, from Swansea University's Biosciences department, led the study and said: «Our research is for the first time recording how an area of the world so critically important for its biodiversity is rapidly losing a key marine resource.

In an attempt to answer these issues, a recent study of 31 target spider species from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, discovers that both time and body size are significant factors in determining which specimens can produce DNA barcode sequences.

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an increasingly popular strategy for protecting marine biodiversity, but a new global study demonstrates that widespread lack of personnel and funds are preventing MPAs from reaching their full potential.

Now, a study, recently published in the open access Biodiversity Data Journal, suggests that the latest advances in both digitization and machine learning might together be able to assist museum curators in their efforts to care for and learn from this incredible global resource.

Watson said most climate studies on biodiversity focus on the effects climate change could have 50 to 100 years from now.

The study, published today in Science, led by researchers from UCL, the Natural History Museum and UNEP - WCMC, found that levels of biodiversity loss are so high that if left unchecked, they could undermine efforts towards long - term sustainable development.

Moutinho started his career studying ants but has spent most of his time in recent years looking at ways to use carbon markets to stem emissions from deforestation while protecting biodiversity and the rights of indigenous people.

In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.

Researchers from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center and the University of Mainz study which genes control these raids.

«We studied the diversity of the rarely collected wingless long - horned beetles from Borneo, which is one of the major biodiversity hotspots in the world,» says main author and PhD student Radim Gabriš.

Studies on mild fluctuations in weather have provided support for the idea that higher biodiversity results in more stable functioning of ecosystems, but critical appraisal of the evidence from extreme event studies is lStudies on mild fluctuations in weather have provided support for the idea that higher biodiversity results in more stable functioning of ecosystems, but critical appraisal of the evidence from extreme event studies is lstudies is lacking.

[7] «Within the BelSPO - funded BELDIVA project, we are studying the microbial biodiversity and its response to climate change, in collaboration with scientists from the Universities of Liège and Ghent and the Botanic Garden in Meise.

A study on hantavirus and Panama rats suggests another and less obvious benefit to biodiversity — it may diminish the threat humans face from zoonotic diseases.

In a study published Nov. 6 in PLOS ONE, a team of University of Wisconsin — Madison researchers used modeling tools to explore how switching land from growing an annual corn crop to growing perennial grasses for bioenergy would impact farmer income, energy production, and environmental benefits like greenhouse gas mitigation, biodiversity support and water quality.

Researchers from the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F) have extracted this information, as well as many other facts, from their studies of fossilized raindrops.

«Such insights into the past may help to separate natural from «man - made» oscillations of rainfall which is particularly important in view of ongoing climate change,» says the lead author of the study, Dr. Eva Niedermeyer, LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F).

A new study researchers from LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F) and the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main explains how.

As scientists from the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F) have found out as a result of a recent overview study, the influence of climate change is frequently unfavourable.

Another in vitro study published in Chemical Biodiversity focused on chemical isolation of 8 steroidal compounds derived from fenugreek, testing their individual effect on growth hormone production.

Results from studies suggest that sites adjacent to the current reserve, namely the Haulover Creek and Burdon Canal between Jones and Northern Lagoon, contain higher biodiversity than the reserve itself.

Working with researchers from Humboldt State University, University of California, Berkeley, and citizen scientists, we are studying the impacts of climate change on redwoods» growth, carbon storage, and forest biodiversity through the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative (RCCI).

Low tundra shrubs, many of which are willow and alder species, have rapidly grown into small trees over the last 50 years, according to the study, led by scientists from the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Oxford and the Arctic Center of the University of Lapland.

The report, «Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services,» is one of a suite of studies feeding into what will be the third National Climate Assessment, an overarching analysis of impacts on everything from transportation systems to public health.

«If [the CTI] increases, you know that it is a direct biodiversity response to climate change,» comments Vincent Devictor, researcher of the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier, France, who previously led a study monitoring species from seven European countries.

These findings come from a wide - ranging study — Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems and [continue reading...]

This activity report presents some examples of the IFAD - GEF partnership from around the world by using brief case studies to highlight certain aspects of various projects, which includes over 43 national and regional projects, covering areas of biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation and sustainable forest management.

These studies investigate everything from the increased risk of birth defects and depression to impacts on biodiversity and hydrology.

Climate change is fundamentally re-shaping lake ecology in the Tropical Andes, a development that could undermine biodiversity and jeopardize critical water resources in a region stretching from Venezuela to Bolivia, according to a study published this past February in PLoS One.