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Category: Ecology

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Decline in Fish Stocks at Puget Sound Hurts Diving Birds

Posted on October 18, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 164 views

Birds that dive for fish while wintering in the Salish Sea, located between British Columbia and Washington, are more likely to be in…

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    Climate change alters cast of winter birds

    Posted on October 17, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 400 views

    Over the past two decades, the resident communities of birds that attend eastern North America’s backyard bird feeders in winter have…

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      Colonization of new land drives the evolution of new hummingbird species

      Posted on September 23, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 134 views

      The first comprehensive map of hummingbirds’ 22-million-year-old family tree — reconstructed based on careful analysis of 284 of…

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        Diversity of lake cichlid species due to unusually high gene duplication

        Posted on September 23, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 201 views

        In an effort to understand the molecular basis of adaptation in vertebrates, researchers sequenced the genomes and transcriptomes of five…

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          Deciduous trees flourished after dinosaur-killing meteor impact

          Posted on September 17, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 289 views

          Some 66 million years ago, a 10-km diameter chunk of rock hit the Yukatan peninsula near the site of the small town of Chicxulub with the…

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            Early mammals diverged from reptiles much earlier than thought in the late Triassic

            Posted on September 11, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 436 views

            Paleontologists have described three new small squirrel-like species that place a poorly understood Mesozoic group of animals firmly in the…

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              Terrestrial alga reveal the presence of genes that enable plants to cope with life on land

              Posted on September 6, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 138 views

              By analysing the genome of a terrestrial alga, a research group including researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kazusa DNA Research…

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                New species of sea-dwelling mushroom-shaped organisms represent an early branch on the tree of life

                Posted on September 5, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 80 views

                New deep sea mushroom-shaped organisms discovered Organisms’ discovery spurs identification of 2 new species Scientists discovered two…

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                  Marine protected areas should include ecologically valuable fish communities

                  Posted on September 4, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 102 views

                  Study finds marine protected areas inadequate for protecting fish and ocean ecology A new study reports that an expansion of marine…

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                    Evolution of new ant species in a single ant colony via sympatric speciation

                    Posted on August 27, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy 172 views

                    Alternate mechanism of species formation picks up support, thanks to a South American ant A newly-discovered species of ant supports a…

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