Revealing krill diets with DNA
Krill are shrimp-like crustaceans found throughout the world’s oceans. The Antarctic krill, Euphasia superba, is thought to be the most abundant species on the planet in terms of biomass (500…
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COI characters resolve chitons, distances do also
…representing 19 species of Mopalia chitons. Chitons are molluscs with flattened segmented shells, and most of the 860 known world species are herbivores that graze in tidal zones, although some…
The Great Reversal: The Potentials for Forest Protection to 2050
…production of forest products into a small area of the world’s forests, leaving the rest for other purposes such as preservation of biodiversity, carbon sequestration and protection of water catchments….
Rockefeller #1
We share in the pride of everyone at The Rockefeller University that it ranked #1 in a recent survey of the impact of research of 750 universities around the world….
Web initiative aims to help clear name confusion
…interest in birds, it is surprising there is no single authoritative world checklist, especially since most of the differences at the species level reflect minor disagreements about generic assignment, a…
The Jack Rabbit of Depression, or Do economic slumps benefit environment?
…what happened to USA energy use and emissions during the slumps of the 1930s and after World War II.  A short essay, “The Jack Rabbit of Depression, or Do…
Jesse Ausubel named Fellow of American Geographical Society
…Ausubel on the 20thof November during the AGS Fall Symposium, Geography 2050: Exploring our Future in an Urbanized World, to be held at Columbia University. Here is the press release….
Wired, Scientific American highlight DNA-based future of species identification
…are also clever traps to catch all the people in the world whose curiosity impels them toward data as if toward light.” An article in October 2008 Scientific American, with…
mtDNA recovery from old bones hints at DNA durability, ubiquity
…designed to recover short fragments, rather than one of the newer sequencing technologies, demonstrating the continued power of DNA amplification. In 28 july 2008 BMC Evol Biol Proc a group…
Plant specialists work towards standardization
…female trees always lack these distinguishing characters. (It is remarkable that something as large as a tree can sometimes not be identified even by specialists!) In one study (Newmaster, Mol…