BioScience articles from January 2003

BioScience archives from January 2003

BioScience: American institute of biological sciences. (Editorial).
January 1, 2003... Your AIBS Like me, you probably joined AIBS some years ago in order to receive BioScience, AIBS's award-winning scientific journal. Although that is still a perfectly valid reason for membership in AIBS, our umbrella professional...

Letters.
January 1, 2003... Mistaken Identity Adrienne Froelich's editorial in the October issue of BioScience (vol. 52, p. 867) is upsetting because it grievously misrepresents the causes for the serious problem of widespread inattention to "nonmedical" biology. She...

Leaders and followers in the intelligent-design movement. (Viewpoint).
January 1, 2003... Why did I devote the better part of a July weekend to attending a creationist conference in Kansas City called "Darwin, Design, and Democracy III: Teaching Origins Science Objectively"? It certainly wasn't for the joy of hearing cliches about...

To publish, or not to publish, after 9/11. (Washington Watch).
January 1, 2003... Immediately following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the subsequent anthrax attacks, scientists knew that the months ahead would bring new regulations on research activities. For scientists in fields such as nuclear physics, this...

Preparing Biologists for the 21st century. (Eye on Education).
January 1, 2003... Biology research is on a roll: In the last 50 years, we have discovered the basic links among all living things through our growing understanding of the structure of DNA, and scientists have gone on to map the genomes of humans and other...

Understanding fungi through their genomes. (Feature).
January 1, 2003... Ranging from microscopic yeast and molds to oversized mushrooms, fungi have been a part of human civilization since before recorded history. As agents of food spoilage, they have long been the bane of societies attempting to store provisions,...

Scientific accomplishments of the Long Term Ecological Research program: an introduction. (Article).
January 1, 2003... On the premise that today's complex environmental challenges require innovative long-term study over many types of habitat and over large areas of the landscape, the National Science Foundation established the Long Term Ecological Research...

The US Long Term Ecological Research program. (Articles).
January 1, 2003... The 24 projects of the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research Network, whose sites range from the poles to the Tropics, from rain forests to tundras and deserts, and from offshore marine to estuarine and freshwater...

Long-Term research on biosphere--atmosphere interactions. (Articles).
January 1, 2003... Selected findings from the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program are described in the field of biosphere-atmosphere interactions. The Palmer, Antarctic, site contributes evidence to the debate on the ecological effects of increased...

Disturbance dynamics and ecological response: the contribution of long-term ecological research. (Articles).
January 1, 2003... Long-term ecological research is particularly valuable for understanding disturbance dynamics over long time periods and placing those dynamics in a regional context. We highlighted three case studies from Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)...

Ecological variability in space and time: insights gained from the US LTER program. (Articles).
January 1, 2003... Long-term observations of comprehensive sets of ecological variables have resulted in a richer understanding of long-term ecological dynamics. In this article, we present a series of examples of research from the Long Term Ecological Research...

Using mechanistic models to scale ecological processes across space and time. (Articles).
January 1, 2003... Human activities affect the natural environment at local to global scales. To understand these effects, knowledge derived from short-term studies on small plots needs to be projected to much broader spatial and temporal scales. One way to...

The importance of land-use legacies to ecology and conservation. (Articles).
January 1, 2003... Recognition of the importance of land-use history and its legacies in most ecological systems has been a major factor driving the recent focus on human activity as a legitimate and essential subject of environmental science. Ecologists,...

Long-term and large-scale perspectives on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. (Articles).
January 1, 2003... In a growing body of literature from a variety of ecosystems is strong evidence that various components of biodiversity have significant impacts on ecosystem functioning. However, much of this evidence comes from short-term, small-scale...

Invasion of the dollar snatchers: the aliens have arrived and we are paying the price. (Books).
January 1, 2003... A Plague of Rats and Rubbervines: The Growing Threat of Species Invasions. Yvonne Baskin. Island Press, Shearwater Books, Washington, DC, 2002. 330 pp., $25.00 (ISBN 1559638761 cloth). A Plague of Rats and Rubbervines is a courageous and...

Will genes survive genomics?
January 1, 2003... The Misunderstood Gene. Michel Morange, trans. Matthew Cobb. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001. 222 pp., $24.95 (ISBN 0674003365 cloth). Misunderstood, maligned, malicious, mutant, mistranslated, and demystified, genes have...

AIBS news.
January 1, 2003... JANUARY 2003/VOLUME 53 NUMBER 1 New AIBS Board Members for 2003 The AIBS Board of Directors and staff thank retiring board members Judith Weis (Rutgers University, 2001 AIBS president) and Marvalee Wake (University of...

Calendar.
January 1, 2003... Calendar of meetings January 4-8 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Toronto, Ontario; Web site: www.sicb.org/meetings/2003/index.php3 26-31 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, 38th Annual...

Negotiating the trade-offs of conservation. (BioBriefs).
January 1, 2003... Conserving endangered species by regulating the international trade of them can be a precarious balancing act. Yet this is what the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) manages to do. At its...

Trade in ivory and mahogany. (BioBriefs).
January 1, 2003... The move that brought the most media attention was the controversial decision to allow Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa to sell stockpiles of legally obtained ivory to fund elephant conservation programs or community development projects for...

Conserving marine life. (BioBriefs).
January 1, 2003... CITES took its first steps in another controversial arena: global marine fisheries. Basking sharks and whale sharks, the world's largest fish, which can reach lengths of 12 and 15 meters and weigh up to 7 and 12 metric tons, respectively, have...

1973-2003. (BioBriefs).
January 1, 2003... This year marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of CITES. While the conference continues to grow in members and importance, its increasing role in conserving wildlife populations puts a growing financial burden on many countries,...