Posts Tagged ‘biodiversity’

Hungry Sea Otters Save Shorelines

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Image by Robert Scoles/NOAA

Researchers are discovering just how vital sea otters are to healthy ecosystems.

What Lives Where

Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
collections, museums, biodiversity, informatics, ecosystems, conservation, scientific research

The Academy’s Stan Blum works in Biodiversity Informatics– he documents what lives where.

Undercover Ecosystem Agents

Thursday, June 6th, 2013
ecosystems, biodiversity, coral reefs, rainforests, alpine, forests, meadows, moray, deforestation, sediment

Healthy ecosystems often rely on secret agents. Not spies, but organisms that might not seem to have an obvious connection to a natural community.

Biodiversity and Disease

Thursday, April 11th, 2013
diseases, biodiversity, pathogens, viruses, ecosystems, habitats, economy, shannon bennett

How does biodiversity affect human health? Can we put a price tag on it?

Biodiverse Perspectives

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
biodiversity, dimensions, perspectives, NSF, national science foundation, species, ecosystems

We’re running out of time to find and discover all the species on Earth and the benefits they provide. Here’s a clever way to speed the process up!

189 New Species

Monday, January 28th, 2013
nudibranchs, ants, sharks, fish, academy research, terry gosliner, biodiversity, species, count

Meet some of the new species that Academy researchers discovered last year.

Arthropods and Biodiversity

Monday, December 17th, 2012
insects, biodiversity, beetles, forests, rainforests, arthropods

What influences biodiversity? A staggering number of arthropods.

Biodiversity Informatics

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Forest_on_San_Juan_Island

Conservation depends on this practice…

Biodiversity in Streams

Thursday, April 7th, 2011
stream-algae

Biologically diverse algae cleanup streams!

Will There Be Fish in 2050?

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Coral_reefs_in_papua_new_guinea

Yes… but the ocean and its population will be very different.

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