Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

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Finding the 'conservación' in conservation genetics

A recently published special issue of the Journal of Heredity focuses on case studies of real-world applications of conservation genetics in Latin America,…

Argonne Finds Butanol is Good for Boats

The battle for cleaner, greener fuels isn't fought solely on land – America’s rivers, lakes and surrounding seas are home to 17 million recreational boats…

Treating ships’ ballast water: filtration preferable to disinfection

In order to prevent the transfer of harmful organisms, ships’ ballast water is often subjected to electrochemical disinfection.* “However, our analyses show…

Are Fish Getting High on Cocaine?

Both prescription and illegal drugs such as morphine, cocaine and oxycodone have been found in surface waters in Canadian rivers. New research from McGill…

Inbreeding not to blame for Colorado's bighorn sheep population decline

Bighorn herds tend to be small and isolated in their mountain ecosystems, putting the animals at high risk for a genetic “bottleneck,” said Catherine Driscoll,…

One of World’s Rarest Turtles Heading Back to the Wild

– Species believed extinct in Cambodia until rediscovery in 2000

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