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NLBIF - Wed, 21 Jul 2010 NLBIF searches candidates for GBIF Young Researchers Awards NLBIF searches talented PhD and MSc students in the field of biodiversity informatics. Graduate and PhD students using the (new) possibilities of international (GBIF) datasharing in combination with novelty ICT applications to address scientific and societal biodiversity problems, can be nominated for the GBIF Young Researchers Award. This stimulation award, one for PhD students and one for MSc students, enables the selected candidates to invest up to 4000 euro in...
NLBIF - Thu, 24 Jun 2010 Living with biodiversity: people, knowledge, politics NLBIF cooperates more and more with organisations and institutes investigating the relevance of biodivesity data for science and society. The progress of international biodiversity networks such as GBIF very much depends on the social dynamics within this network and the interaction of the network with the outside world. NLBIF therefore uses its communication channels to announce the international symposium Living with Biodiversity: People, Knowledge, Politics.
Date: Wednesday 22 – Thursday 23...
NLBIF - Tue, 13 Apr 2010 NLBIF - UvA joint Summer Course on Geo-ecological Data Analysis open for registration A joint University of Amsterdam, NLBIF and LifeWatch Summer Course on Geo-ecological Data Analysis is now open for (pre)registration. The increasing availability of high quality occurrence and abundance data at the species level accompanied by many environmental data layers has boosted the developments in species distribution modelling (SDM). As a result, there are nowadays numerous data-driven modelling tools available for enhancing understanding of ecological systems or generating predictions, which has... Biodiversity news
Latest News - UPI.com - Thu, 2 Sep 2010 Explosives to be used to kill whale ALBANY, Australia, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Australian authorities said they expected to use explosive charges to euthanize a beached whale off the south coast of Australia. Australia - Oceania - Mammalia - Flora and Fauna - Chordata
ScienceDaily: Plants & Animals News - Wed, 1 Sep 2010 Are wolves saving Yellowstone's aspen trees from elk? Previous research has claimed that the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 is helping restore quaking aspen in risky areas where wolves prowl. But apparently elk hungry for winter food had a different idea. They did not know they were supposed to be responding to a 'landscape of fear.'
Livescience.com - Wed, 1 Sep 2010 Serengeti’s Great Migrations May Be on Road to Ruin Commercial road could cut off millions of animals, if built.
Newswise: SciNews - Wed, 1 Sep 2010 NY Sharks to Benefit form New Scientific Initative The Wildlife Conservation Society's New York Aquarium announced today the launch of the New York Seascape initiative--a conservation program designed to restore healthy populations of local marine species--many of them threatened--and to protect New York City and area waters, which are vital to wildlife and key to economic and cultural vitality.
New Scientist - Life - Wed, 1 Sep 2010 Zoologger: Death by world's longest animal A venomous medusa-like beast as long as a blue whale has emerged as an unlikely defender of the world's oceans |
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