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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
Environment - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Sat, 11 Sep 2010 ENVIRONMENT-PHILIPPINES: Mining Project Digs Up Locals' Ire Depending on who one talks to, Mt Mantalingahan is either a treasure trove of untapped minerals lying underneath the earth's crust, or a biodiversity hotspot that is home to some of the worlds rarest and threatened animals.
Environment - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Sat, 11 Sep 2010 ENVIRONMENT: South Still Battling to Stop North's Biopiracy The United Nations declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity. But 17 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the issue of biopiracy is still pitching North against South.
ScienceDaily: Plants & Animals News - Thu, 9 Sep 2010 Most penguin populations continue to decline, biologists warn Penguin biologists from around the world warn that ten of the planet's eighteen penguin species have experienced further serious population declines. The effects of climate change, overfishing, chronic oil pollution and predation by introduced mammals are among the major factors cited repeatedly by penguin scientists as contributing to these population drops.
Environment - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Thu, 9 Sep 2010 BRAZIL: Laws No Help to Amazon Animals, or People Every year, more than a million Amazonian turtle eggs do not make it to the hatching period, nor do they serve as food for humans in the Tabuleiro de Embaubal, a series of beaches along the final stretch of Brazil's Xingú River.
National Geographic News - Thu, 9 Sep 2010 'Lost' Fox Subspecies Found via Saliva Analysis Thought extinct in central California, a rare fox subspecies has been found there—upping the species' chances for long-term survival. California - Species - Biology - Recreation - Business |
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