Tag: ecology
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How wolves changed a river… [or "Butterflies changing Mountains"]
Wolves re-introduced to Yellowstone. Wolves killing dears. Thus helping plants increase and grow into trees. Trees allowing more animals to come into the ecosystem. Making the bands of the river more stable, changing it's shape. Of you little butterfly. How powerless you look. How many mountains have you shaped into existence...
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Analyzing more. Explaining less. Another plague of modern science...
Ecologists are testing more and more hypotheses, but their studies are explaining less of the world. That’s the striking conclusion of a new study that analyzes 8 decades of research papers. What exactly is driving these trends isn’t clear, but researchers fear it could undermine confidence in ecological research. Since it gained momentum as a…
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Monkeys, music, ecology...
Research published today by the American Psychological Association has shown that chimpanzees prefer listening to West African akan and North Indian raga over listening to silence. What does this say about the evolutionary purpose of music? Previous work by McDermott and Hauser showed that when tamarins and marmosets were given a choice between a lullaby…
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Oil spills, purple elephants, science as a tool of politics.
Much of the methane released by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout hung around until the end of that year. In a new study of data collected in the months after the spill, scientists report that the numbers of methane-munching microbes plummeted while the gas was still abundant. The result contradicts an earlier report, which suggested…
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Mississippi river and the "Change things" mania of modern civilization...
Maybe the Mississippi river delta isn't doomed after all. Upstream dams on the rivers that run through the delta were thought to be starving it of the sediment it needs to stay above sea level – but now it seems there's enough sand to feed the delta for centuries to come. (1) We spend so…
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