Podcast: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Wildlife Trade Management
The illicit wildlife trade is a multi-billion-dollar business that spans the globe. Unfortunately, efforts to control it have often fallen short, and massive numbers of organisms are regularly removed from ecosystems and sold as pets, food, and traditional medicines. Writing in BioScience, Dr. Mary Blair, Dr. Minh Le, and their colleagues describe an integrative framework to help characterize and mitigate the wildlife trade. Based on Elinor Ostrom’s social-ecological systems thinking, the framework incorporates biological, anthropological, socioeconomic, and other types of data to paint a holistic picture of the prob...
Source: ActionBioscience - November 10, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Podcast: A Waterway Bounces Back following the Passage of the Clean Water Act
Although the aims of environmental legislation are well known, measuring the effects of regulation is often a difficult task. Inadequate data for baseline conditions and the recovery period can hamper efforts to quantify the effects of a regulation. In a rare exceptional case, Dr. Daniel Gibson-Reinemer and his colleagues describe in BioScience the successful recovery of the Illinois Waterway following the implementation of the 1972 Clean Water Act. Using a robust, multi-decadal data set, the authors demonstrate a tight linkage between water quality and the rebound of numerous fish populations. Dr. Gibson-Reinemer joins us...
Source: ActionBioscience - November 10, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Podcast: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Wildlife Trade Management
The illicit wildlife trade is a multi-billion-dollar business that spans the globe. Unfortunately, efforts to control it have often fallen short, and massive numbers of organisms are regularly removed from ecosystems and sold as pets, food, and traditional medicines. Writing in BioScience, Dr. Mary Blair, Dr. Minh Le, and their colleagues describe an integrative framework to help characterize and mitigate the wildlife trade. Based on Elinor Ostrom’s social-ecological systems thinking, the framework incorporates biological, anthropological, socioeconomic, and other types of data to paint a holistic picture of the prob...
Source: ActionBioscience - November 10, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Podcast: A Waterway Bounces Back following the Passage of the Clean Water Act
Although the aims of environmental legislation are well known, measuring the effects of regulation is often a difficult task. Inadequate data for baseline conditions and the recovery period can hamper efforts to quantify the effects of a regulation. In a rare exceptional case, Dr. Daniel Gibson-Reinemer and his colleagues describe in BioScience the successful recovery of the Illinois Waterway following the implementation of the 1972 Clean Water Act. Using a robust, multi-decadal data set, the authors demonstrate a tight linkage between water quality and the rebound of numerous fish populations. Dr. Gibson-Reinemer joins us...
Source: ActionBioscience - November 10, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Podcast: A Waterway Bounces Back following the Passage of the Clean Water Act
Although the aims of environmental legislation are well known, measuring the effects of regulation is often a difficult task. Inadequate data for baseline conditions and the recovery period can hamper efforts to quantify the effects of a regulation. In a rare exceptional case, Dr. Daniel Gibson-Reinemer and his colleagues describe in BioScience the successful recovery of the Illinois Waterway following the implementation of the 1972 Clean Water Act. Using a robust, multi-decadal data set, the authors demonstrate a tight linkage between water quality and the rebound of numerous fish populations. Dr. Gibson-Reinemer joins us...
Source: ActionBioscience - November 9, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Podcast: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Wildlife Trade Management
The illicit wildlife trade is a multi-billion-dollar business that spans the globe. Unfortunately, efforts to control it have often fallen short, and massive numbers of organisms are regularly removed from ecosystems and sold as pets, food, and traditional medicines. Writing in BioScience, Dr. Mary Blair, Dr. Minh Le, and their colleagues describe an integrative framework to help characterize and mitigate the wildlife trade. Based on Elinor Ostrom’s social-ecological systems thinking, the framework incorporates biological, anthropological, socioeconomic, and other types of data to paint a holistic picture of the prob...
Source: ActionBioscience - November 9, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Neglected Biodiversity and the Current Extinction Crisis
What is neglected biodiversity?
More than 14 million species are estimated to exist worldwide, of which approximately 1.7 million, or 12 percent, have been documented by scientists over the last three centuries. Well-studied and iconic groups of organisms such as plants, mammals and birds account for only about 18 percent of the total documented life on Earth. The other 82 percent, more than 1 million species, collectively constitute what we here call “neglected biodiversity,” or species that are not recognized, understood, or appreciated by most people. Considering that scientists agree that the majority of t...
Source: ActionBioscience - May 10, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Neglected Biodiversity and the Current Extinction Crisis
What is neglected biodiversity?
More than 14 million species are estimated to exist worldwide, of which approximately 1.7 million, or 12 percent, have been documented by scientists over the last three centuries. Well-studied and iconic groups of organisms such as plants, mammals and birds account for only about 18 percent of the total documented life on Earth. The other 82 percent, more than 1 million species, collectively constitute what we here call “neglected biodiversity,” or species that are not recognized, understood, or appreciated by most people. Considering that scientists agree that the majority of t...
Source: ActionBioscience - May 10, 2016 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Neglected Biodiversity and the Current Extinction Crisis
What is neglected biodiversity?
More than 14 million species are estimated to exist worldwide, of which approximately 1.7 million, or 12 percent, have been documented by scientists over the last three centuries. Well-studied and iconic groups of organisms such as plants, mammals and birds account for only about 18 percent of the total documented life on Earth. The other 82 percent, more than 1 million species, collectively constitute what we here call “neglected biodiversity,” or species that are not recognized, understood, or appreciated by most people. Considering that scientists agree that the majority of t...
Source: ActionBioscience - May 10, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
AIBS, 48 Member Organizations Send Letter to Senate on Future of NSF
The Honorable Cory Gardner
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
512 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Gary Peters
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
254 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senators Gardner and Peters,
Thank you for the opportunity to provide input regarding the scientific community’s priorities for the reauthorization for the America COMPETES Act.
Scientific research is an important engine that powers our nation’s economic growth. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the federal agency th...
Source: ActionBioscience - August 21, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
AIBS, 48 Member Organizations Send Letter to Senate on Future of NSF
The Honorable Cory Gardner
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
512 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Gary Peters
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
254 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senators Gardner and Peters,
Thank you for the opportunity to provide input regarding the scientific community’s priorities for the reauthorization for the America COMPETES Act.
Scientific research is an important engine that powers our nation’s economic growth. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the federal agency that supports the fu...
Source: ActionBioscience - August 21, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
AIBS, 48 Member Organizations Send Letter to Senate on Future of NSF
The Honorable Cory Gardner
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
512 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Gary Peters
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
254 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senators Gardner and Peters,
Thank you for the opportunity to provide input regarding the scientific community’s priorities for the reauthorization for the America COMPETES Act.
Scientific research is an important engine that powers our nation’s economic growth. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the federal agency tha...
Source: ActionBioscience - August 20, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
Regime Shifts in Social-Ecological Systems
What are regime shifts?
Ecosystems consist of components that interact and self-organize through internal feedback mechanisms that maintain the system’s structure and function. Regime shifts occur when systems experience changes in their internal dynamics that push the system into a new state. 1,2
For instance, natural periodic fires help to keep grasslands structure; if fire is suppressed grasslands may shift to encroached shrubland. 3 In humid forests tree evapotranspiration is an important source of humidity for forest persistence. The loss of large tracts of forest may lead to declines in evapotranspiration, wh...
Source: ActionBioscience - July 1, 2015 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Regime shifts in social-ecological systems
What are regime shifts?
Ecosystems consist of components that interact and self-organize through internal feedback mechanisms that maintain the system’s structure and function. Regime shifts occur when systems experience changes in their internal dynamics that push the system into a new state. 1,2
For instance, natural periodic fires help to keep grasslands structure; if fire is suppressed grasslands may shift to encroached shrubland. 3 In humid forests tree evapotranspiration is an important source of humidity for forest persistence. The loss of large tracts of forest may lead to declines in evapotranspiration, wh...
Source: ActionBioscience - July 1, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
