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Widespread coral decline linked with onshore activities

Originally posted on Summit County Citizens Voice:
Australian study shows how branching corals suddenly declined and failed to recover during Queensland settlement and development era Acropora coral at French Frigate Shoals, northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Photo courtesy NOAA. By Summit Voice…

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Crowdfunding forest ecology?

Originally posted on Among The Stately Trees:
“And if three whole people, why not — four? And if four whole people, why not–more, and more, and more….” – Snoopy and the Peanuts There has been much recent discussion on the…

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Originally posted on Animal Cultures:
Whose knowledge is more useful? Scientists’ or livestock keepers’? Recently I had the privilege to attend a “high-level” meeting between ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research and ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) bureaucrats and scientists.…

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Originally posted on Biodiversity Revolution:
There’s an interesting article in The Conversation today which suggests that climate change may have been responsible for the collapse of the Mayan civilisation in central America. The authors refer to a study in Science authored…

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