BioScience articles from May 2002

BioScience archives from May 2002

Making the case for biology. (Editorial).
May 1, 2002... As the new director of public policy for AIBS, I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss one of the eleven initiatives from the 1999 AIBS Presidents' Summit: MAKING THE CASE FOR BIOLOGY. Little did we know how much the success of the "other"...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2002... Serendipity, Science, and Biosphere 2: A Response to Walford. Dr. Roy Walford (2002) has suggested that Biosphere 2 should be considered a serendipitous voyage of discovery, one that is within the stream of the "integrative culture" of...

Bioresponsibility: engaging the scientific community in reducing the biological weapons threat. (Viewpoint).
May 1, 2002... The biological science community plays a vital role in thwarting bioterrorism. By improving our understanding of pathogens and of the mechanisms by which they cause disease, and by developing diagnostics, therapeutics, preventatives, and other...

Environmental Conflict Resolution. (Features).
May 1, 2002... A dispute over a storm-damaged road in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in northeastern Nevada had all the signs of becoming ugly. At issue was whether the US Forest Service should repair the road, which provided the only vehicle access...

Report from estuarine research federation 2001: an estuarine odyssey. (Features).(Narragansett Bay and Chesapeake Bay estuaries)
May 1, 2002... St. Pete Beach, Florida, 4-9 November 2001 Every week since January 1959, a trawler has left Wickford Harbor, Rhode Island, to make a 30-minute net tow in the Narragansett Bay estuary and in Rhode Island sound. The net collects animals...

Federal research funding: waiting for a green light. (Washington Watch).
May 1, 2002... On 4 February 2002, the Bush administration unveiled its budget for fiscal year 2003, rating federal agencies with red, yellow, and green lights on five government-wide management initiatives. One of these initiatives, budget and performance...

Forest fragmentation of the conterminous United States: assessing forest intactness through road density and spatial characteristics. (Articles).(Review)
May 1, 2002... FOREST FRAGMENTATION CAN BE MEASURED AND MONITORED IN A POWERFUL NEW WAY BY COMBINING REMOTE SENSING, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, AND ANALYTICAL SOFTWARE Over the past few centuries, widespread disturbance of native forests of the...

The evolution of the major histocompatibility complex in birds. (Articles).
May 1, 2002... SCALING UP AND TAKING A GENOMIC APPROACH TO THE MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILTY COMPLEX (MHC) OF BIRDS REVEALS SURPRISING DEPARTURES FROM GENERALITIES FOUND IN MAMMALS IN BOTH LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE AND THE MECHANISMS SHAPING THE EVOLUTION OF THE MHC...

Weaving traditional ecological knowledge into biological education: a call to action. (Education).(the paper examines the ecological knowledge of indigenous people regarding their homeland)
May 1, 2002... As scientists and educators, we train our students to thoroughly examine all the available evidence and to consider alternative explanations for biological phenomena. In peer review, we critically assess whether the author has carefully cited...

Noah's options: initial cost estimates of a national system of habitat conservation areas in the United States. (Roundtable).
May 1, 2002... Despite the current downturn in the economy, the United States has been enjoying a period of unprecedented economic prosperity. At the same time, our biodiversity assets are increasingly at risk. Approximately 100 species in the United States...

Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions. (Books: On the Brink).
May 1, 2002... Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions. Peter D. Ward. Columbia University Press, New York, 2000. 315 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 0-231-11862-7 hard cover). Peter D. Ward, professor of geological sciences at the...

Exploring Agrodiveristy. (Books: Farming Around the World).
May 1, 2002... Exploring Agrodiveristy. Harold Brookfield. Columbia University Press, New York, 2001. 348 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 0-231-102321 hardcover). Harold Brookfield has long been involved in the United Nations University international project on...

SPARC, AIBS partner in BioOne, releases guide on Nonprofit Electronic Publishing. (AIBS News).
May 1, 2002... SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) recently launched Gaining Independence: A Manual for Planning the Launch of a Nonprofit Electronic Publishing Venture. This new publication, available on the Web free of charge...

AIBS, ESA team up on chapter for AAAS budget book. (AIBS News).(Review)
May 1, 2002... Each year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science produces a book that analyzes the administration's proposed budget for science and technology research and development for the coming fiscal year. This year, Public Affairs...

AIBS Virtual Library to be free to members. (AIBS News).(Review)
May 1, 2002... The AIBS online Virtual Library of digital video recordings of the plenary lectures from all AIBS Annual meetings since 2000, at www.aibs.org/pubaibs/virtuallibrary.html, will be free to all individual members of AIBS after June 2002. Content...

Roundtable examines Bioterrorism Threats to the environment. (AIBS News).
May 1, 2002... The "Bioterrorism Threats to Natural and Urban Ecosystems" roundtable brought together a panel of scientists in Washington, DC, on 22 February 2002, to examine what situations might be faced by the United States in the event of a bioterrorist...

The Cofan of Ecuador. (Protecting Biodiversity).
May 1, 2002... The Cofan, self-described "guardians of the rainforest," are the indigenous people of northeastern Ecuador who, displaced by oil exploration and colonization in the mid-1960s, fought a decades-long battle to protect the rainforest from further...

Conservation and Ecotourism. (Protecting Biodiversity).
May 1, 2002... In an effort to focus attention on the important role ecotourism plays in preserving both cultural and natural diversity around the world, the United Nations designated 2002 the International Year of Ecotourism. The United Nations Environment...