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PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Regurgitating Birds Aid Rain Forest
An article on umbrellabird, an endangered species lives only in the Chocó rain forests of Ecuador and Colombia – where it makes vital contributions to the forests’ health.
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Islands in the sky: the impact of Pleistocene climate cycles on biodiversity
Minireview of paper by John McCormack et al. in BMC Biology “Integrating paleoecology and genetics of bird populations in two sky island archipelagos“
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Center for Tropical Research October 2008 Newsletter
Letter from the Director Dear Friends of CTR, We face tremendous environmental challenges during this presidential election year. Human activities are altering every ecosystem on our planet and the threat…
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Global Warming, Elevation Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics
A new scientific publication by Robert K. Colwell.
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Global warming affects warm-weather species too, study finds
Even tropical plant and animal species living in some of the warmest places on Earth may face threats from a warming planet, according to new research co-authored by a UCLA…
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Creating a New Defense for Biodiversity
As predictions of global warming and species extinction grow increasingly dire, research at UCLA is under way to combat climate change and reduce its potentially devastating effects.
