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Reserves 'win–win' for fish and fishermen
Marine protection areas could offer fisheries a boost.
- Rex Dalton
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Water-dwelling dinosaur breaks the mould
Spinosaurs' semi-aquatic habits helped them coexist with tyrannosaurs.
- Matt Kaplan
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Ancient filter feeders found lurking in museums
Fish fossils fill gaps in dinosaur-era ocean food chains.
- Andrew Bennett Hellman
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Ecology: why horses wear white
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Climate change: Warming boosts invasions
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Ecology: Aphid deception
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Still looking for that woodpecker
An expensive recovery plan to save the ivory-billed woodpecker from extinction may come decades too late.
- Rex Dalton
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Washed up in Madagascar
How, when and from where did Madagascar's unique mammalian fauna originate? The idea that the ancestors of that fauna rafted from Africa finds support in innovative simulations of ancient ocean currents.
- David W. Krause
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Biodiversity law could stymie research
Tighter rules on accessing and developing genetic resources may be counterproductive for conservation.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Biodiversity talks get under way
Delegates begin to hammer out a new strategy for the Convention on Biological Diversity.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Europe cannot keep its promises on fish stocks
Even with total cessation of fishing, UN target would still be missed.
- Daniel Cressey
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Conservation work is incomplete without cryptic biodiversity
- Genoveva F. Esteban
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Ecology: Asocial invaders
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Lemurs' wet and wild past
Model shows how mammals could have 'rafted' to Madagascar.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Mammalian biodiversity on Madagascar controlled by ocean currents
Madagascar has a striking and peculiar fauna. It has been proposed that the ancestors of Madagascar's present-day mammal stock rafted there from Africa, but the validity of this hypothesis is questioned. Using palaeogeographic reconstructions and palaeo-oceanographic modelling, surface currents during the Palaeogene period are now shown to have been capable of transporting the animals to the island, as required by the hypothesis.
- Jason R. Ali
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Mystery of the brown giant panda deepens
Rare sighting of brown-and-white panda sparks conservation debate.
- Henry Nicholls
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Why oil from the Exxon Valdez lingers
Rocky beaches may have locked oil away in airtight pores.
- Naomi Lubick
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Parasitic wasps' DNA laid bare
Nasonia wasp genomes should improve agricultural biological control.
- Brendan Borrell
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Biogeochemistry: DDT in the ocean
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Biology: Snakes face the heat
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Disease epidemic killing only US bats
European bats seemingly unaffected by fungal infection.
- Lizzie Buchen
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Learn to beat an identity cheat
Parent birds commonly face the problem of distinguishing their own brood from foreign chicks. Learnt chick-recognition evolves only when parents do not mistakenly learn to reject their own young.
- Rebecca Kilner
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Parasitic larva ditches doomed host
A cunning insect detects when its host is under threat from predators to make a timely escape.
- Lucas Laursen
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Harmful algae stun their prey
Toxic blooms may help single-celled algae to eat their competitors.
- Brendan Borrell
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Sea stars suck up carbon
Much more carbon is sequestered by echinoderms than previously thought.
- Matt Kaplan
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Correspondence |
Step up aspirations to save biodiversity as 2010 begins
- Ashok Khosla
- & Julia Marton-Lefèvre
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Ecology: Wish you were here
An annual excursion to an exclusive Caribbean island has yielded an impressive body of ecological fieldwork. Just don't call it a holiday, says Mark Schrope.
- Mark Schrope
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Discovery pushes back date of first four-legged animal
But controversy surrounds 400-million-year-old fossilized tracks.
- Rex Dalton
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