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- 1From:Earth Island Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 2)Your "Eating Wild" newsletter (April 8, 2022) about foraging popped up as I blanched and chopped nettles for the night's soup. The nettles came from the Forest Park trail in Portland, OR, a couple of blocks from my...
- 2From:California BookwatchAmerican Jaguar Elizabeth Webb Twenty-First Century Books c/o The Lerner Publishing Group 241 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55401-1607 www.lernerbooks.com 9781541523678, $37.32, HC, 128pp...
- 3From:Natural History (Vol. 130, Issue 7)The celebrated history of biological exploration and research in Malesia began in the seventeenth century with the expeditions of the German-born botanist Georg Eberhard Rumphius (originally Rumpf, 1627-1702), who worked...
- 4From:The Economist (Vol. 430, Issue 9131)A long-term natural experiment hints at how species disperse THAT SPECIES might spread overseas by hitching lifts on floating vegetation is an idea going back to Charles Darwin. It is a plausible thought, but hard to...
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- 6From:Natural History (Vol. 126, Issue 7)The Galapagos archipelago is the best-known place where numerous species have evolved on different islands from a single common ancestor. However, Mindoro Island in the Philippine archipelago may be the smallest island,...
- 7From:Geographical (Vol. 85, Issue 2)Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have used data on more than 20,000 species to update Alfred Russel Wallace's century-old map of global biodiversity. Based on the work of 15 international researchers and...
- 8From:Geographical Magazine (Vol. 67, Issue 12)The disciplines of biology and geography may have combined to form a new discipline. Biogeography examines the geographical distribution of plant and animal species. Students of biogeography may analyze the patterns of...
- 9From:USA Today (Vol. 142, Issue 2827)A continent-wide assessment of the Antarctic's biogeography and a proposal that the landmass be divided into 15 distinct conservation regions to protect the continent from invasive alien species has been put forth by an...
- 10From:Parks & Recreation (Vol. 32, Issue 6)The concept of island biogeography has become an important consideration to those charged with protecting biological diversity in selected land areas. It examines whether more species are saved in a small number of large...
- 11From:EcosSCIENTISTS are using modern molecular tools to help unravel the evolutionary origins of New Zealand's plants and animals. Dr Geoff Chambers and his colleagues at the Institute for Molecular Systematics, Victoria...
- 12From:The New York Times Book ReviewHE SONG OF THE DODO Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. By David Quammen. Illustrated. 702 pp. New York: Scribner. $32.50. Slice up a fine Persian carpet into a few dozen neat rectangular pieces. The...
- 13From:Whole Earth (Issue 94)Central Asia is is nestled in between mountains, desert, steppe, and the Caspian Sea. The climate is difficult. Many rivers in the area never reach the sea and the Aral Sea is endangered. While this area was the cradle...
- 14From:New Statesman (Vol. 143, Issue 5204)I can't help but feel that Stefan Buczacki has misinterpreted Churchill's choice of oak (Notebook, 21 March). It seems far more likely that choosing a species found predominantly around Gallipoli was in homage to the...
- 15From:EcosAustralian bush birds are in decline. Both bird abundance and species numbers have fallen in many southern Australian agricultural regions, especially where woodlands have been cleared. Australia could lose half of its...
- 16From:Geographical (Vol. 81, Issue 11)SCIENTISTS FROM THE British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have identified ten new emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica by trawling through satellite imagery in search of an unlikely sign of their existence--their poo....
- 17From:Geographical (Vol. 82, Issue 3)Mystery of Pacific iguanas solved: A pair of US scientists believe they've solved one of the enduring mysteries of biogeography: how did iguanas, a group of lizards mostly found in the Americas, come to live on the...
- 18From:The New York Times Book ReviewTHE SONG OF THE DODO: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions By David Quammen. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $17. Selected as one of the best books of 1996 by the editors of the Book Review, this work...
- 19From:The Nation (Vol. 247, Issue 12)A movement is, of course, supposed to be more than its constituent parts, but what struck me most about the bioregional movement, as evidenced recently by its third North American congress, was the strength and scope of...
- 20From:Geographical (Vol. 83, Issue 2)SPECIES DIVERSIFICATION is limited by local environmental factors, according to new research on lizards in the Caribbean. The new findings support and extend the theory of island biogeography developed by Robert...