29.08.2012 Job alert: Postdoctoral Position Vacancy (Göttingen, Germany) Landscape heterogeneity and functional biodiversityThe main objective of the project is to test better predictor for biodiversity and ecosystem functions than structural heterogeneity. General patterns of the ef...

21.08.2012 Wild pollinators support farm productivity and stabilize yield Most people are not aware of the fact that 84% of the European crops are partially or entirely dependent on insect pollination. While managed honeybees pollinate certain crops, wild bees, flies and wasps cover a very broad sp...

15.08.2012 Climate Change and Arthropods: Pollinators, Herbivores, and Others By Sandra L. Brantley and Paulette L. FordThe ecological roles of arthropods are important, even critical, and should be included when monitoring and predicting effects of global warming. Although knowledge of m...

25.07.2012 Job alert: PhD-position at Georg-August-University (Göttingen, Germany) Insect diversity, pollination success and the functional heterogeneity of agricultural landscapesHeterogeneity of agricultural landscapes can greatly influence biodiversity and associated ecosystem services, but...

24.07.2012 Job alert: Full professorship in “Theory in Biodiversity Sciences” (University of Jena, Germany) Within German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) the Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena invites applications for a full (W3) professorship in “Theory in Biodiversity Sci...

02.07.2012 Article alert: Introgression from cultivated rice influences genetic differentiation of weedy rice populations at a local spatial scale TAG THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS (2012) 124(2): 309-322, DOI: 10.1007/s00122-011-1706-5Zhuxi Jiang, Hanbing Xia, Barbara Basso and Bao-Rong LuHybridization and introgression can play an important role in ...

28.06.2012 New TV series on ecological engineering begins in the Mekong Entertainment education is a useful means to initiate social change. When the principles were applied to create the radio soap opera, the 104 episodes broadcast over the Voice of Ho Chi Minh City contributed significantly to ...

28.06.2012 THAILAND: Rice pests multiply post-floods BANGKOK, 12 March 2012 (IRIN) - Heavy flooding across parts of Thailand in 2011 has fuelled outbreaks of a rice pest that can decimate harvests, experts say. The pest, known as brown planthopper (BPH), transmits two viruses...

28.06.2012 Rice Pest Symposium - New Management Strategies for Insects and Diseases of Rice (The Second Announcement) Beijing, China, Oct. 25-26, 2012Rice, a staple food for over half of the worlds’ population is a key to food security, social stability and the economy. Today, in many Asian and African countries, rice production i...

27.06.2012 Article alert: Complex interactions among biocontrol agents, pollinators and an invasive weed: a structural equation modeling approach Ecological Applications (2012) in press. doi: 10.1890/12-0131.1Swope, Sarah M., and Ingrid M. ParkerHerbivores, seed predators and pollinators can exert strong impacts on their host plants. They can also affe...

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