BioScience articles from May 2006

BioScience archives from May 2006

Teaching for success.(Editorial)
May 1, 2006... Students or postdocs in biology who are thinking of embarking on a career in academia will do themselves a favor by reading the Professional Biologist article that begins on p. 430, by Christine Fleet and colleagues. These authors surveyed...

Leopold appealed to conscience.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... Barbara Paterson ("Ethics for Wildlife Conservation: Overcoming the Human-Nature Dualism," BioScience 56: 144-150) stimulated our thinking about the role of religion and philosophy in the development of an environmental ethic. After reviewing...

How teaching institutions can help conservation biology.(Viewpoint)
May 1, 2006... Conservation biology a is crisis-oriented science. Of critical concern are population declines, which often occur with little warning, leaving little time to determine their causative agents, magnitude, and extent and to develop management...

Interdomain interactions: dissecting animal--bacterial symbioses.
May 1, 2006... For the first billion years of life on Earth, prokaryotes had the place to themselves. By the time the first eukaryotes and then, finally, multicellular organisms arose and diversified, prokaryotic bacteria and archaebacteria had invaded almost...

Are there signs of life in the innovation budget?(Washington Watch)
May 1, 2006... For years, members of the scientific community have sounded alarm bells warning of a decline in the competitiveness of US research, development, and education systems. During the past year, taking note of high-profile innovation initiatives...

Controlling ticks and tick-borne zoonoses with biological and chemical agents.
May 1, 2006... Ticks are important vectors of disease-causing pathogens of humans, wildlife, and livestock. Reducing tick abundance is an important but elusive goal. Chemical pesticides applied to habitats occupied by ticks can be effective but appear to have...

Forest ecosystem responses to exotic pests and pathogens in eastern North America.
May 1, 2006... The forests of eastern North America have been subjected to repeated introductions of exotic insect pests and pathogens over the last century, and several new pests are currently invading, or threatening to invade, the region. These pests and...

Biophysical and biogeochemical responses to climate change depend on dispersal and migration.
May 1, 2006... Different species, populations, and individuals disperse and migrate at different rates. The rate of movement that occurs in response to changes in climate, whether fast or slow, will shape the distribution of natural ecosystems in the decades...

River and wetland restoration: lessons from Japan.
May 1, 2006... River and wetland restoration has emerged as a worldwide phenomenon and is becoming a highly profitable business. Although researchers worldwide know a lot about restoration practices in Europe and the United States, we have only scant...

Hiring criteria in biology departments of academic institutions.(Professional Biologist)
May 1, 2006... We surveyed faculty in the biology departments of US institutions of higher education to compare the experience and training valued by faculty at hiring institutions with the experience and training most graduate students receive. Our data show...

What use is half a wing in the ecology and evolution of birds?(Forum)
May 1, 2006... The use of incipient wings during ontogeny in living birds reveals not only the function of these developing forelimbs in growing birds' survival but also the possible employment of protowings during transitional stages in the evolution of...

Tooth and claw.
May 1, 2006... Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals. Tim Caro. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005. 591 pp., illus. $38.00 (ISBN 0226094367 paper). Predation is an important factor shaping the natural world around us. Very few animals are...

The big sleep.
May 1, 2006... Life in Ancient Ice. John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers, eds. Princeton University Press, New Haven, CT, 2005. 336 pp. $69.50 (ISBN 0691074755 cloth). Life in Ancient Ice, edited by John Castello and Scott Rogers, arose from an...

Paradigms undefined.
May 1, 2006... Ecological Paradigms Lost: Routes of Theory Change. Beatrix Beisner and Kim Cuddington, eds. Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA, 2005. 464 pp., illus. $79.95 (ISBN 0120884593 paper). The genesis of Ecological Paradigms Lost, according...

New titles.
May 1, 2006... Galapagos: A Natural History. John Kricher. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. 256 pp., illus. $19.95 (ISBN 069112633X paper). The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace. Ross A. Slotten. Columbia...

Limited number of gratis seats available for AIBS annual meeting.(AIBS news)
May 1, 2006... "Biodiversity: The Interplay of Science, Valuation, and Policy" is the theme of the 2006 AIBS annual meeting, to be held 24-25 May 2006 at the Westin Grand Hotel in Washington, DC. Plenary lectures and discussion groups of scientists, policy...

AIBS and NESCent at the 2006 NSTA National Conference.(AIBS news)
May 1, 2006... AIBS shared a booth with the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in the exhibit hall during the annual National Conference on Science Education hosted by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) in Anaheim, California, 5-9...

BEN award granted.(AIBS news)
May 1, 2006... The BiosciEdNet.org (BEN) Collaborative, managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library, one of four "Pathways"...

Biologists educate Congress, recognize representatives.(AIBS news)
May 1, 2006... More than 50 scientists and graduate students were in Washington, DC, in March to participate in a congressional visits event sponsored by the Biological and Ecological Sciences Coalition (BESC) and the Coalition on Funding Agricultural...

AIBS gives congressional testimony on FY 2007 budget.(AIBS news)
May 1, 2006... In March and April, AIBS gave testimony to House and Senate appropriations committees in support of the president's FY 2007 budget request for the National Science Foundation. The president's request would provide NSF with $6.02 billion in the...

Recent articles online at www.actionbioscience.org.(AIBS news)
May 1, 2006... Original articles in English * "Climate Change and Speciation of Mammals," interview with Anthony D. Barnosky, vertebrate paleontologist and curator of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California-Berkeley * "Biomedical...

Recent AIBS education reports online at www.aibs.org.(AIBS news)
May 1, 2006... * AIBS annual meeting updates * New education resources in Action Bioscience.org * National Evolutionary Synthesis Center: Education and outreach * Call for contributions: Encyclopedia of Earth * Professional development...

Recent AIBS public policy reports online at www.aibs.org.(AIBS news)
May 1, 2006... Public Policy Report for 10 April 2006 * AIBS submits congressional testimony on FY 2007 budget * Ehlers/Holt "Dear Colleague" letter on NSF * US Fish and Wildlife Service reports a net gain in US wetland acreage * New in...

Calendar of meetings.(Calendar)
May 1, 2006... May 5-6 Kansas (Central States) Entomological Society, Columbia, MO; www.oznet.ksu.edu/kes/ annual_mtg.htm 7-11 Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, The Hague, The Netherlands; www.setaceumeeting.org/ thehague/ 19-23...

Cooperators can prosper: population model resolves the tragedy of the commons.(Modeling Change)
May 1, 2006... Social conflicts naturally arise within populations, particularly around the use and management of common resources. The tragedy of the commons is a social dilemma that members of any group face: whether to cooperate for the benefit of the...

Over 100,000 volunteers simulate climate change.(Modeling Change)
May 1, 2006... Global climate models have been getting more sophisticated as computing power has increased. To make the most accurate predictions possible, models must incorporate as much of the global climate system as possible, a trend that has led recently...