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Ecosystem

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Ecosystem

description: A dynamic and complex system of plant, animal and microorganism communities and their non-living environment all interacting as a functional unit within a defined physical location. The term may be applied to a unit as large as the entire ecosphere, but usually refers to a division thereof.

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents

Tracking A Mass Extinction Via Mastodon Poop

The Younger Dryas period was an era of extinctions and ecosystem change that occurred just prior to the end of the last ice age. It's also a hot area of research right now, with some researchers suggesting that a comet or meteor struck the earth over ... [ArsTechnica - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Ecosystem, Herbivore, Mass Extinction

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Internet & IT)

LiMo Foundation Announces Korean LiMo Ecosystem Association

The LiMo Foundation announced on Wednesday that a series of powerful Korean mobile companies signed a MOU for the establishment of the Korean LiMo Ecosystem Association. The new initiative is aimed at delivering innovation for the LiMo platform on the ... [Softpedia - 11/19/2009]

Entities: LiMo Foundation, Ecosystem, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Ins...

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 22 hours ago - 3 Documents

Natural Resources Defense Council

Fish Fence Failure: Invasive Asian Carp Swimming Headlong into Great Lakes

– State and Federal agencies admitted today that tests show invasive Asian carp have evaded an electrical barrier intended to prevent the fish from gaining access to Lake Michigan, and eventually the entire Great Lakes ecosystem. Scientists and government ... [NRDC Worldview - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Ecosystem, Army Corps, Chicago, Natural Resources Defense Council

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

SAP AG

Customer and Partner Ecosystem Thrives With SAPÂ® BusinessObjectsâ„¢ Governance, Risk, and Compliance Solutions

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that a growing number of companies are using SAP® BusinessObjects™ governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to improve and automate their compliance and risk management processes. Worldwide, customers like BearingPoint, ... [Dashboard Insight - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Compliance Solutions Inc, SAP AG, Ecosystem

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Ant farmers use bacteria to make their gardens grow

In a new research, scientists have found that ant farmers, like their human counterparts, depend on nitrogen-fixing bacteria to make their gardens grow.The finding a previously unknown symbiosis between ants and bacteria and provides insight into how ... [Sify - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Bacteria, Nitrogen, Mutualism, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ecosystem

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Piracy is not the problem, piracy is the catalyst

Pinch Media, who provide analytic software for developers on Apple's phones, are estimating that piracy rates are as high as 60% on the iPhone (reports Pocket Gamer). You can be sure that this number is matched on Symbian, Windows Mobile other mobile ... [All About Symbian - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Piracy, Catalyst, iPhone, PlayStation Portable

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Microsoft Corporation

Ignore your ecosystem at your own peril

It's a fact – every technology company is part of one or more ecosystems. Each ecosystem, in turn, is comprised of companies and individuals that concurrently collaborate and compete to solve significant customer problems.A sure formula for killing your ... [Ottawa Business Journal - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Ecosystem, Lead, Carleton University, Microsoft Corporation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Trip Van Noppen: Back to the Bush Leagues on Arctic Drilling?

An ocean continues to wait for change In the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska, George W. Bush is still president, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the chance to inaugurate a new regime. Shell Oil recently got the green light from ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/19/2009]

Entities: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, George W Bush, Ken Salazar, Ecosystem, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Redwood National Park

Limited research has been published re current climate impacts on redwoods and other species in the ecosystem. These are the likely impacts:• Redwoods condense enough fog to provide a large part—20 to 40 percent—of the total precipitation in the forest. ... [Greenpeace International - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Species, Carbon, Ecosystem

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Glacier National Park

Because temperatures are warmer, there's less snow, and more rain, which leads to earlier snowmelt and spring runoff. The National Park Service estimates that spring runoff in the Pacific Northwest now occurs two weeks earlier than in the past, and that, ... [Greenpeace International - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Species, Grinnell Glacier, Ecosystem

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Yellowstone National Park

• As conditions become warmer and drier and precipitation declines, geysers in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem will likely erupt less frequently. A study published in 2008 found that in recent years the time between Old Faithful's eruptions shifted ... [Greenpeace International - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Precipitation, Ecosystem, Amphibian, Global Warming/Climate Change

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

'Stern review' of biodiversity calls for more ecosystem markets

Online News - New from Environmental Finance Publications to receive this weekly news service direct to your inbox 'Stern review' of biodiversity calls for more ecosystem marketsLondon, 19 November: Policy-makers should expand payments for ecosystem ... [Environmental Finance - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Biodiversity, Ecosystem, G8+5, Environment

Quotes

...Ms Dixson told BBC News: "Ocean acidification has the potential to become a widespread problem and it's unknown how many organisms and ecosystems will cope with the decrease [in] pH. 'This study shows that ocean acidification could lead to an increase in the mortality of larvae.'"

Fish 'at risk' in acidified ocean [BBC - 3 hours ago]

...'Production of a high quality maize genome sequence was a high priority for the NPGI from the beginning,' said Jane Silverthorne of NSF. "This accomplishment builds on technological advances and basic research into maize biology that were essential to the design of the most cost-effective strategy to assemble and anchor the genes onto the genetic and physical maps." Real-world applications

Scientists sequence corn genome [Drovers - 8 hours ago]

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Blogs

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2010: The Year Android Will Shake It’s Money Maker [TechCrunch - 20 mins ago] Editor’s note: More and more mobile app developers are deciding to make apps for Android, even though it still doesn’t have the same reach as the iPhone. In this ...
Nature Iraq's 'Second Creation Story' (Video) [Treehugger - 1 hour ago] Life hasn't been easy for the Ma'dan, or "Marsh Arabs," of Iraq's ancient wetlands. First the marsh area where they have made their homes -- and their living -- ...
Twitter COO Dick Costolo: Revenue is on and adv... [Venturebeat - 15 hours ago] Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at the Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. I’m taking some notes as we go.The big takeaways are that Twitter is making more ...
Wall Street Journal article: Science as a Team ... [Complexity and Social Networks Blog - 17 hours ago] Today I was quoted in the Wall Street Journal in an article on scientific collaborations by Robert Lee Hotz. (They also did a short video accompanying the online ...
Great Lakes Ecosystems May be Compromised by… C... [EcoWorldly - 20 hours ago] With concerns over climate change globally, you might think that the last thing that environmentalists would worry about would be the natural food chain of wildlife; ...

Audio/Video

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Nature Extra: Pavan Sukhdev [Mefeedia Video Tag : evoluti - 11/18/2009]
Nature Extra: Pavan Sukhdev [Mefeedia Video Tag : geneti - 11/18/2009]
Nature Extra: Pavan Sukhdev [Mefeedia Video Tag : medici - 11/18/2009]
Nature Extra: Pavan Sukhdev [Mefeedia Video Tag : physi - 11/18/2009]
Nature Extra: Pavan Sukhdev [Mefeedia Video Tag : biolo - 11/18/2009]

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