24.02.2012 Article alert: Organic Farming Improves Pollination Success in Strawberries PLoS ONE 7(2): e31599. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031599Andersson GKS, Rundlöf M, Smith HGPollination of insect pollinated crops has been found to be correlated to pollinator abundance and diversity. Sinc...

24.02.2012 Article alert: Effects of organic farming on biodiversity and ecosystem services: taking landscape complexity into account Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06413.xWinqvist C, Ahnström J and Bengtsson JThe recent intensification of the arable landscape by modern agriculture has had neg...

07.02.2012 Article alert: Rice, fish, and the planet PNAS (2011) 108(50):19841-2.Lansing JS, Kremer JNIn 2002, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization launched a program to recognize “globally important agricultural heritage systems”. However, so f...

07.02.2012 Article Alert: Evaluation of Genetic Variation Among Wild Populations and Local Varieties of Rice RICE 4(3/4): 170-177. DOI: 10.1007/s12284-011-9067-xIshii T et al.Cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) is derived from Asian wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff). Vietnamese local varieties and wild n...

03.02.2012 Job alert: PhD position in Ecolog (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany) The Department Community Ecology (UFZ) is offering a full PhD position in Ecology within the project LEGATO, funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. The position is limited to a three year contract. The pr...

24.01.2012 Article alert: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function Science 13 January 2012: 335(6065): 174-175. DOI: 10.1126/science.1217245Maestre FT et al.How is the biodiversity within an ecosystem related to the ecosystem's function? Quantifying and understanding this re...

21.01.2012 Protect biodiversity to safeguard ecosystem services Science for Environment Policy, Issue 269Most species in an ecosystem could help supply essential ecosystem services, according to a recent study. The researchers found that 84% of species in the grassland ecosy...

13.01.2012 Practical course: Dispersal analysis with mark-release-recapture methods (30 April – 2 May 2012, Prague, Czech Republic) A practical course on dispersal analysis with mark-recapture methods will be held on 30 April – 2 May 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic. The course is aimed at researchers / students / conservation managers, who are using, or pl...

12.01.2012 Job alert: PhD student at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Leipzig, Germany) Topic: Effects of land-use on multitrophic interactions in rice-dominated landscapes in South-East Asia.The Department of Community Ecology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ is offering a...

04.01.2012 Job alert: Postdoctoral fellowship: Biodiversity and biological control at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) SLU invite applications for a two-year post-doctoral position fellowship for research on ecosystem services in multifunctional agricultural landscapes. The positions are part of the project SAPES (Multifunctional Agriculture:...

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