{"id":3880,"date":"2010-08-17T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2010-08-17T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T16:02:00","slug":"from-the-community-shark-science-reconciliation-ecology-and-biodiversity-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2010\/08\/17\/from-the-community-shark-science-reconciliation-ecology-and-biodiversity-100\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Community: shark science, reconciliation ecology and Biodiversity 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>An analysis of Shark Week, research on reconciliation ecology from ESA\u2019s annual meeting, flowers that are genetically predisposed to adapting to climate change, endangered, purring titi monkey species found in Colombia\u00a0 and the details on the antibiotic-resistant \u201csuperbug.\u201d Here is the latest in ecological science from the second week in August.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shark science: <\/strong>August ushered in Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, and with it, an array of articles and research on sharks. An article in Scientific American<\/em> last week highlighted everything from \u201ctechnology to ecology\u201d in a descriptive slideshow. As John Pavlus wrote, \u201c[Shark] research is revealing, among other things, that even sharks like the great white are intelligent, curious animals with cognitive abilities worth studying.\u201d Read more<\/a> at \u201cToday\u2019s Sharks: Smart, Tagged, and in Short Supply.\u201d See also WhySharksMatter\u2019s annual rating of Shark Week programs on the Southern Fried Science<\/em> blog<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ecosystem engineering: <\/strong>In a Wired Science<\/em> article, <\/strong>Brandon Keim discusses the feasibility of reconciliation ecology and\u00a0 current research on the topic from University of Arizona\u2019s Michael Rosenzweig. As the article highlights: \u201c\u2018We decided to turn Tucson into a lab of a million people,\u2019 said Rosenzweig, who spoke on reconciliation ecology Aug. 3 at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh. \u2018We\u2019re not trying to restore old habitats. We\u2019re trying to invent new ones.\u2019\u201d Read more<\/a> at \u201cEcosystem Engineering Could Turn Sprawl Into Sanctuary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Biodiversity 100: <\/strong>Guillaume Chapron from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and George Monbiot from The Guardian<\/em> in the U.K. have started \u201cBiodiversity 100,\u201d a list of 100 recommendations for the G20 governments to address regarding biodiversity. Already, the list<\/a> is extensive with recommendations from ecologists and members of the public alike. Read more<\/a> at \u201cTalk has not halted biodiversity loss \u2013 now it\u2019s time for action.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Flower adaptation:<\/strong> According to a study published in a recent edition of Molecular Biology and Evolution<\/em><\/a>, some flowers may be genetically predisposed to adapting to climate change. Sarah Zielinski wrote in the Smithsonian\u2019s blog Surprising Science<\/em> that \u201cthese results also imply that trying to save threatened species by relocating them to places like botanical gardens for preservation could backfire. The plants could just as quickly lose the traits that made them so well adapted to their home ecosystem.\u201d Read more<\/a> at \u201cFlowers May Adapt Faster than Thought to Climate Change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Endangered monkeys: <\/strong>Researchers studying Colombia\u2019s Caqueta region<\/a> <\/em><\/span>have discovered a new species of titi monkey and reported the findings in <\/span>Primate Conservation.<\/em> <\/em>According to the study<\/a>, the red-bearded, strictly monogamous monkeys are endangered due to deforestation and fragmented habitats. Read more<\/a> at \u201cCrazy-Looking Redbearded Monkey Turned Up in Colombia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, silver nanoparticles<\/a> and greenhouse gas emissions, hypoxia<\/a> in Oregon, researching artificial<\/a> dead zones, warm-water dolphins<\/a> on the rise and an antibiotic-resistant \u201csuperbug<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo credit: Hermanus Backpakers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An analysis of Shark Week, research on reconciliation ecology from ESA\u2019s annual meeting, flowers that are genetically predisposed to adapting to climate change, endangered, purring tit monkey species found in Colombia amidst violence and the details on the antibiotic-resistant \u201csuperbug.\u201d Here is the latest in ecological science from the second week in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,287,60,63,747,543,724,893,630,912,785],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-adaptation","tag-biodiversity","tag-climate-change","tag-endangered-species","tag-flowers","tag-genes","tag-hypoxia","tag-monkeys","tag-nanotechnology","tag-reconciliation-ecology","tag-shark-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}