Tag Archives: habitat loss

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? A Visualization of Ocean Trash

Posted on May 18, 2014 by argylesock

Originally posted on Ocean News:
Project AWARE’s new interactive map is the first to visualize nearly three years of ongoing reporting by an international network of scuba divers who remove marine debris they find underwater through the Dive Against Debris…

Posted in ecology, knowledge transfer | Tagged Africa, America, Asia, conservation, data, Europe, finfish, fishing, glass, habitat loss, invertebrate, mammal, map, marine mammal, metal, paper, plastic, pollution, rubber, sea, shellfish, textile, vertebrate, waste, wildlife, wood | Leave a comment

Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 2 – bees and disease

Posted on April 21, 2014 by argylesock

Originally posted on Wellcome Trust Blog:
? Insect pollinators, including honeybees, bumblebees and hoverflies, are in decline. The £10 million Insect Pollinators Initiative aims to find out why. In the second of two articles, Chrissie Giles looks at four of…

Posted in agriculture, ecology, miniculture | Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, bacterium, bumblebee, conservation, data, deformed wing virus, dipteran, disease, disease transmission, emerging disease, fungus, habitat loss, honeybee, hoverfly, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, mite, miticide, Nosema ceranae, parasite, pesticide, pollination, research, scientist, Varroa destructor, Varroa destructor virus-1, vector, virus | Leave a comment

Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 1 – bees and ecology

Posted on April 21, 2014 by argylesock

Originally posted on Wellcome Trust Blog:
Insect pollinators, including honeybees, bumblebees and hoverflies, are in decline. The £10 million Insect Pollinators Initiative was launched to find out why. In the first of two articles, Chrissie Giles speaks to the head…

Posted in agriculture, ecology, food, miniculture | Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, beetle, biodiversity, bumblebee, coleopteran, conservation, crop, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, dipteran, disease, ecosystem, habitat loss, honeybee, hoverfly, hymenopteran, insect, mite, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, pollination, research, seed, Varroa destructor, virus, wasp, wild bee, wild pollinator | 2 Comments

The first detailed maps of the world’s forests from 2000-2012 (Google Maps)

Posted on November 17, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on DESERTIFICATION:
Read at : http://google-latlong.blogspot.be/2013/11/mapping-worlds-deforestation-over-time.html Mapping the world’s deforestation over time We’re excited to announce today that, in a collaboration led by Dr. Matthew Hansen at the University of Maryland, we’ve built the first detailed maps of…

Posted in ecology, knowledge transfer | Tagged arboriculture, conservation, data, ecosystem, forest, habitat loss, history, knowledge, land use, map, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, tree, woodland | Leave a comment

Nature conservation succeeds in parts of Europe

Posted on October 8, 2013 by argylesock

The State of Nature Report was sobering news for us in Britain in May 2013. I told you about it at the time. But a few weeks later, evidence came in Ecology Letters that conservation efforts may be paying off … Continue reading →

Posted in ecology, knowledge transfer, money and trade | Tagged arthropod, beetle, biodiversity, butterfly, coleopteran, conservation, data, dipteran, ecosystem, finance, habitat loss, history, hymenopteran, insect, intensive, knowledge, land use, lepidopteran, moth, pollination, pollution, research, wild pollinator, wildlife | 3 Comments

Short-haired Bumblebee Nests in Dungeness

Posted on September 19, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on vetsbeyondreason:
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-24112752 17 September 2013 Last updated at 01:57 GMT A species of bee reintroduced to the UK after becoming extinct has nested for the first time in a quarter of a century. The short-haired bumblebee…

Posted in ecology | Tagged arthropod, bumblebee, conservation, ecosystem, extinction, habitat loss, hymenopteran, insect, native species, reintroduced species, short-haired bumblebee | Leave a comment

A species not seen for decades has been seen again

Posted on August 4, 2012 by argylesock

Ancient woodlands are irreplaceable. They're a theme emphasised by The Woodland Trust and they’re one of the reasons I got interested in science. Those gnarled old trees, those mosses, those lichens! And today I see that there’s another reason to … Continue reading →

Posted in ecology | Tagged ancient woodland, arachnid, arthropod, conservation, ecosystem, forest, habitat loss, history, invertebrate, spider, woodland | 6 Comments

Tag Archives: habitat loss

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? A Visualization of Ocean Trash

Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 2 – bees and disease

Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 1 – bees and ecology

The first detailed maps of the world’s forests from 2000-2012 (Google Maps)

Nature conservation succeeds in parts of Europe

Short-haired Bumblebee Nests in Dungeness

A species not seen for decades has been seen again

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