Dr. Malhi and
several other biologists familiar with the study said that the high biological diversity in Yasuní, in itself, hints that the area functioned as a moist refuge for life through past climate shifts that saw much of Amazonia shift to drier forest.
Not exact matches
To get ready for field collection work, he asked
several biologists in
other departments at Jagiellonian for guidance.
Stem cell researchers in Boston and in Stockholm confronted a bizarre and uncomfortable situation last week: accusations of scientific fraud from an anonymous e-mail address, sent not only to the researchers in question but also to
other prominent stem cell
biologists,
several scientific journals, and reporters.
But this — and
several other studies reported here — reveals how readily humpbacks around the world come up with new hunting strategies, says Alexander Werth, a marine
biologist at Hampden - Sydney College in Virginia who was not involved with the work.
A critic of the select agent program, molecular
biologist Richard Ebright of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, says that
several «substantive» and many
other «minor» changes in the memo «will improve U.S. select - agent oversight.»
Neuroscientist Steven Kushner of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, together with chemical
biologist Mario van der Stelt from nearby Leiden University and colleagues at
several other institutes, set out to find out why.
Toughie, living alone in recent years in a special habitat at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, was one of
several dozen Rabbs» frogs and tadpoles captured in Panama in 2005 and brought to Atlanta by
biologists practicing the emerging art of «captive conservation» — trying to safeguard this (and
other) tropical frog species ahead of the fungal holocaust.