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Understanding the Past and Predicting the Future by Looking Across Space and TimeIn a new paper published this week (May 20) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and elsewhere validate a fundamental assumption at the very heart of a popular way to predict relationships between complex variables. |
Released: 5/24/2013 3:00 PM EDT
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Bittersweet: Bait-Averse Cockroaches Shudder at Sugar
Sugar isn’t always sweet to German cockroaches. In a new NC State study published in Science, researchers show that glucose sets off bitter receptors in roach taste buds, causing roaches to avoid foods that bring on this taste-bud reaction. |
Embargo expired: 5/23/2013 2:00 PM EDT
Released: 5/20/2013 12:00 PM EDT
North Carolina State University |
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Slow and Steady, Turtles Gain Ground
WCS builds assurance colonies in its zoos and in the field to help restore endangered turtles. |
Released: 5/23/2013 11:00 AM EDT
Wildlife Conservation Society |
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Thinking ‘Big’ May Not Be Best Approach to Saving Large-River FishLarge-river specialist fishes — from giant species like paddlefish and blue catfish, to tiny crystal darters and silver chub — are in danger, but researchers say there is greater hope to save them if major tributaries identified in a University of Wisconsin-Madison study become a focus of conservation efforts. |
Released: 5/23/2013 10:00 AM EDT
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Scientists Announce Top 10 New Species
An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10 species selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. A global committee of taxonomists — scientists responsible for species exploration and classification — announced its list of top 10 species from 2012 today, May 23. |
Released: 5/22/2013 4:00 PM EDT
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Conservationists Release Manual on Protecting Great Apes in Forest Concessions
A new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) highlights the plight of great apes in the forest concessions of Central Africa and recommends actions to improve protection for gorillas and chimpanzees in these mixed-used landscapes, according to authors from the Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, IUCN, Lincoln Park Zoo and Washington University. |
Released: 5/21/2013 3:00 PM EDT
Wildlife Conservation Society |
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Ant Study Could Help Future Robot Teams Work Underground
Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States. |
Embargo expired: 5/20/2013 3:00 PM EDT
Released: 5/16/2013 10:00 AM EDT
Georgia Institute of Technology, Research Communications |
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Reports from the Central African Republic Indicate Security Has Returned to Dzanga-Sangha National Park
The following statement was released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society President and CEO Cristián Samper in response to the news that Gabon has agreed to help improve the management of the Central African Republic’s protected areas, which are currently threatened by large-scale elephant poaching for ivory, and that security has returned to Dzanga-Sangha National Park. |
Released: 5/19/2013 3:00 PM EDT
Wildlife Conservation Society |
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Invasive Species: "Away-Field Advantage" Weaker Than Ecologists ThoughtFor decades, ecologists have assumed the worst invasive species—such as brown tree snakes and kudzu—have an “away-field advantage.” They succeed because they do better in their new territories than they do at home. A new study led by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center reveals that this fundamental assumption is not nearly as common as people might think. |
Released: 5/17/2013 12:05 PM EDT
Smithsonian Institution |
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Coral Reef Fishes Prove Invaluable in the Study of Evolutionary EcologyCoral reef fish species have proven invaluable for experimental testing of key concepts in social evolution and already have yielded insights about the ultimate reasons for female reproductive suppression, group living, and bidirectional sex change. |
Released: 5/16/2013 11:40 AM EDT
Boston University College of Arts & Sciences |