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How do fish adapt to oil pollution?
Scientists have studied guppies, a family of fish that seems to be thriving in oil-polluted water to understand how they adapt to pollution. Learn more here .
The aquatic-terrestrial model ecosystem – a possibility to integrate riparian food webs in stream mesocosm testing
In this post, Matthias Wieczorek informs about their recent paper on the use of an aquatic-terrestrial model ecosystem to study cross-ecosystem effects of contaminants. The scientific background Emerging aquatic insects provide an important food source...
Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Prenatal Residential Proximity to Agricultural Pesticides: The CHARGE Study
By Janie F. Shelton, Estella M. Geraghty, Daniel J. Tancredi, Lora D. Delwiche, Rebecca J. Schmidt, Beate Ritz, Robin L. Hansen, and Irva Hertz-Picciotto. June 2014. Background: Gestational exposure to several common agricultural pesticides can induce...
Why do some fish thrive in oil-polluted water?
Scientists thought guppies in Northern Trinidad could be a rare example of adaptation to crude oil pollution. But they found something else. By Melody Enguix (26 JAN 2016): When scientists from McGill University learned that some fish were proliferating...
Drone and research in ecology!
Fly high above Lake Iliamna in Alaska, following the crew of the Alaska Salmon Program as they conduct sockeye salmon surveys during one of the largest salmon returns in years.
Freshwater Information Platform
Major European research institutes have joined forces to enable and maintain the Freshwater Information Platform, a new community information resource. Numerous EU funded projects addressing freshwater ecology and water management have generated websites,...
MARS Experiments: Peak Flows in Alpine Rivers
The MARS project is carrying out seven long-term experiments across Europe to study how river and lake ecosystems respond to multiple stresses. Read more here The Hytech experimental channels in Austria. Image: Christian Feld
Irrationality in mate choice revealed by túngara frogs
Lea, A.M. and Ryan, M.J. 2015. Science, Vol. 349 no. 6251 pp. 964-966, DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2012 Mate choice models derive from traditional microeconomic decision theory and assume that individuals maximize their Darwinian fitness by making economically...
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Long-term project on wild guillemots interrupted at a time it would be most needed: http://t.co/3Ex7mXuHbW — Denis REALE (@DenisREALE) 22 Octobre 2014
Research in the Northern Plant Ecology Lab
A brief description of the research conducted in the Northern Plant Ecology Lab from the University of Saskatchewan.
Taira Y, Hayashida N, Tsuchiya R, Yamaguchi H, Takahashi J, et al. (2013) Vertical Distribution and Estimated Doses from Artificial Radionuclides in Soil Samples around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Testing Site. PLoS ONE 8(2): e57524.
For the current on-site evaluation of the environmental contamination and contributory external exposure after the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP) and the nuclear tests at the ...
Przewalski's Horses in Chernobyl
The rare and endangered Przewalski's Horse was introduced to the Chernobyl Zone following the nuclear disaster. Here is an aerial view taken using a DGI Phantom 2 Vision Plus V.3. Pr. Tim Mousseau and these colleagues just completed a census of the population...
Serum microRNAs are early indicators of survival after radiation-induced hematopoietic injury
S. S. Acharya, W. Fendler, J. Watson, A. Hamilton, Y. Pan, E. Gaudiano, P. Moskwa, P. Bhanja, S. Saha, C. Guha, K. Parmar, D. Chowdhury, Serum microRNAs are early indicators of survival after radiation-induced hematopoietic injury. Sci. Transl. Med. 7,...