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NLBIF - Wed, 13 Apr 2011 NLBIF - UvA joint PhD / MSc Summer Course "Modeling and Mapping Species Distributions" 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 modeling (SDM). As a result, there are nowadays numerous data-driven modeling tools available for...
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...
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... Biodiversity news
Reuters: Environment - Fri, 3 Feb 2012 Grounded U.S. whooping cranes taking to the road (Reuters) - A flock of young whooping cranes stuck in Alabama have lost interest in following an ultra-light plane leading them to a Florida winter habitat, so the rare birds' human coaches prepared on Friday to drive them to a nearby marsh.
LiveScience.com - Fri, 3 Feb 2012 Unique Andes Species Lack Protection, Study Finds A new study based on data collected over the last 100 years shows that many of the species unique to the Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia lack vital national-level protection.
National Geographic News - Fri, 3 Feb 2012 Elephants Took 24 Million Generations to Evolve From Mouse-Size For mammals, evolving into bigger sizes takes a lot longer than shrinking, new evolution study shows.
Latest News - UPI.com - Fri, 3 Feb 2012 Calif. salmon return is encouraging SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Silver salmon in California's Marin County, long considered a bellwether of salmon health in California, are spawning in local creeks, conservationists say.
ScienceDaily: Plants & Animals News - Fri, 3 Feb 2012 A battle of the vampires, 20 million years ago? They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that 'bat flies' have been doing their noxious business with bats for at least 20 million years. |
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