Tuesday
Jun082010
Entries in Research Briefs (340)
Tuesday
Jun082010
Using "landscape limnology" to make freshwater conservation more effective
Filed under : 
Freshwater, Planning
Freshwater, Planning Scientists have developed a pioneering, comprehensive approach that makes conserving and managing freshwater lakes, streams and wetlands more integrated and effective...
Monday
Jun072010
Monday
Jun072010
Priortizing restoration across agricultural landscapes
Filed under : Agriculture, Planning, Restoration
Agriculture, Planning, Restoration A new case study presents a planning method for prioritizing ecosystem restoration efforts across an agricultural region. While this type of systematic approach to prioritization has been widely used in land protection, it is much less common in restoration...
Friday
Jun042010
Friday
Jun042010
Understanding public attitudes towards wildlife recovery efforts
Filed under : Mammals
Mammals Black bears are returning to their historic ranges in places like southern Wisconsin and Eastern Texas. So how do local residents feel about the returning wildlife and what explains their attitudes?
Thursday
Jun032010
Calculating the greenhouse gas value of ecosystems
Filed under : Climate
Climate Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new, more accurate method of calculating the change in greenhouse gas emissions that results from changes in land use. The new approach, described in the journal Global Change Biology, takes into account many factors not included in previous methods, the researchers report.
Tuesday
Jun012010
Tuesday
Jun012010
Plantations sequester less carbon than natural forests
Plantations sequester less carbon than natural forests according to a new study recently published in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Yiqi Luo from the University of Oklahoma and fellow researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 86 experimental studies comparing plantations and their natural forest counterparts...