Aboveground Woody Biomass (Woods Hole Research Center, 2000)
4 months ago
January 10, 2012
network of Douglas Fir trees (Kevin Beiler) -
all trees in dry interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) forests are interconnected, with the largest, oldest trees serving as hubs, much like the hub of a spoked wheel, where younger trees establish within the mycorrhizal network of the old trees.
via UrbanTick
9 months ago
August 10, 201111 months ago
July 5, 2011
Data Basin
online map creator and collaborative data/map doowitchy tightly tied to ESRI and ESRI data
(i am not convinced it is a) collaborative and b) friendly to open web/open data initiatives - seriously, you need an esri account to log in. hinky.)
1 year ago
July 11, 2010
Museum of Animal Perspectives (M.A.P.)
collection of web cams and other imagery captured from remote sensing equipment (like cameras carried by animals, etc).
1 year ago
June 23, 2010
Yasser Ansari, one of the speakers for tonight’s salon uses mobile technology for wildlife exploration and bringing science to the masses.
Noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.
1 year ago
June 22, 2010
reblogged via 
Massive Beaver Dam Visible From Space : TreeHugger
According to The Sun, the massive beaver dam spans 2,790 feet, which is 1,546 feet longer than the Hoover dam, which held the title as the largest dam from the years 1936 to 1945. Biologists stumbled on the structure, located in Alberta’s Wood Buffalo National Park, while cataloging beaver activity in North America. One researcher described the dam as “particularly big.”
and may have taken twenty years to build
2 years ago
May 5, 2010
Behavioural Borders
The story starts with researchers at the University of Haifa, who partnered with Jordanian colleagues to study “a variety of reptile, mammal, beetle, spider and ant lion species on either side of the border in the Arava region.” According to the university’s press release, the team “set out to reveal whether the border – unknown to the species – could affect differences between them and their numbers on either side of the frontier, even though they share identical climate conditions.”
The question, in other words, is whether a border that exists only as a line drawn on a map, rather than an impassable physical boundary, can somehow become instantiated as biological fact?
The research team, led by Dr. Uri Shanas, found substantive differences in the numbers, diversity, and even behaviours of animals on either side of the border:
The first study inspected the reptile population and revealed that the number of reptiles is similar on both sides, but the variety of species in the sandy areas of Jordan is significantly higher than the variety found in the sands of Israel. A second study revealed that Israeli gerbils are more cautious than their Jordanian friends, while a third study showed that the funnel-digging antlion population in Israel is unmistakably larger than in Jordan.
These differences were then analysed to find evidence of a hypothetical “border effect.” Dr. Shanas concluded that although the yard-high strand of barbed wire tracing the political demarcation “is not capable of keeping these species from crossing the border between Israel and Jordan,” it nonetheless “does stop humans from crossing it and thereby contains their different impact on nature.”
via Edible Geography
the border stops people and also changes the behaviors of people on either side (different land use practices, laws, etc).
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