Category: Ecology & Environmental Science
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Environmental DNA Detection: New Method for Monitoring Manatees
Researchers use new wildlife sampling technique to identify site occupancy of Manatees in a more accurate, less intrusive, cheaper manner. Listed by the IUCN as a vulnerable species, the West Indian Manatee is a prime candidate for conservation efforts[1]. However, designating protected areas for manatees can be difficult if you don’t know where they are.…
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Environment vs Inheritance – Air Pollutants Account for More Variation in Gene Expression than Ancestry, Transcriptome Analysis Reveals
Researchers at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research use RNA-sequence methods to generate transcription profiles of over 1000 French Canadians and find correlations between a number of environmental factors, chiefly air composition.
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An Endangered Animal For Every State
Fun little infographic I made. Full disclosure, apart from being listed as threatened/endangered, these choices were fairly arbitrary. I tried to get a good mix of phyla (obviously biased towards mammals lol).
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Researchers Use GoogLeNet & Drones to Help in Identifying 1.5 Million Penguins on Danger Island.
How does a team of researchers conduct a penguin survey in Antarctica?
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