04.04.2012 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability contributes to global sustainability policy A special issue is published of the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. The issue publishes papers on the topics of several policy briefs that are on the agenda of the annual United Nations Rio+20 ...

03.04.2012 Weed killers threaten Lange's metalmark butterfly By Peter Fimrite (SFgate) Weed killers commonly used to control invasive plants in the Bay Area also kill off butterflies, a federal toxicology study has found. Butterfly populations common to the Antioch Dune...

02.04.2012 Article alert: Relative Stability of Core Groups in Pollination Networks in a Biodiversity Hotspot over Four Years PLoS ONE 7(3): e32663. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032663Fang Q, Huang S-QPlants and their pollinators form pollination networks integral to the evolution and persistence of species in communities. Previous stu...

26.03.2012 Nature Conservation -- a new open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal launched Nature Conservation is a new-generation open-access journal launched by Pensoft Publishers. Its platform is comprising both innovative technologies and a routine medium for publication of data related to the vast area ...

26.03.2012 Efficient nature conservation policies require sharp focus People have always known that their survival depends on something that is outside of their control – that is, nature. Nature regulates human life, and from it people have tried to derive rules for proper behavior. This is the...

26.03.2012 Building the European Union's Natura 2000 - the largest ever network of protected areas The European Union's Habitats Directive is now 20 years old, and its network of protected areas, known as Natura 2000, is nearing completion. After a slow start, the network now includes some 26 000 protected sites and covers...

15.03.2012 International Conference on Managing Protected Areas under Climate Change (IMPACT) - Call for contributions 24-26 September 2012 in Dresden, GermanyIMPACT sets out to meet the growing need for sharing knowledge and experiences in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. Taking a transdisciplinary per...

01.03.2012 Article alert: Sex at the origin: an Asian population of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae reproduces sexually Molecular Ecology (2012) doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05469.xSALEH, D., XU, P., SHEN, Y., LI, C., ADREIT, H., MILAZZO, J., RAVIGNÉ, V., BAZIN, E., NOTTÉGHEM, J.-L., FOURNIER, E. and THARREAU, DSexu...

26.02.2012 Article alert: Can Tropical Insects Stand the Heat? A Case Study with the Brown Planthopper Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) PLoS ONE 7(1): e29409. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029409 Piyaphongkul J, Pritchard J, Bale JThe brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) is the most serious pest of rice across the world, espec...

26.02.2012 Article alert: Development of SYBR Green I based real-time PCR assays for quantitative detection of Rice tungro bacilliform virus and Rice tungro spherical virus Journal of Virological Methods (2012) doi:10.1016/j.jviromet.2012.01.018Shweta Sharma, Indranil DasguptRice tungro disease, caused by simultaneous infection of Rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV) and ...

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