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Entries in ecology (4)

Wednesday
24Feb2010

When wildlife avoids perfectly good habitat: the perceptual trap

What should we do when perfectly good habitat exists but certain species of wildlife decide to avoid it anyway? Researchers from the University of Oklahoma grapple with this potential mismatch between wildlife perception and habitat quality - a phenomenon they call the "Perceptual Trap."

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Thursday
11Feb2010

Forests homogenizing as they become more species rich 

Temperate forests in Europe are homogenizing even though conventional measures of plant community health might suggest otherwise...

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Wednesday
21Oct2009

Using fossils to explain island bird extinctions... 

Wednesday
09Sep2009

Google ecology: using algorithms to predict the effects of species extinction

In a new study published in the open source journal Computational Biology, researchers apply Google's Page Rank algorithm to the food web to predict the consequences of species extinction on ecosystems...read more

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