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Klimaschatz aus Nevada

Die Felskluft Devils Hole in den USA ist weltweit einzigartig. Sie beherbergt ein Unterwasserreservoir, in dem seit hunderttausenden von Jahren konstante Bedingungen herrschen. In einem Projekt des Wissenschaftsfonds FWF untersuchen Forscherinnen und Forscher um Christoph Spötl dieses wertvolle Klimaarchiv und sind dabei einem Rätsel auf der Spur. (more…)

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Some birds come first — a new approach to species conservation

A Yale-led research team has developed a new approach to species conservation that prioritizes genetic and geographic rarity and applies it to all 9,993 known bird species.

“To date, conservation has emphasized the number of species, treating all species as equal,” said Walter Jetz, the Yale evolutionary biologist who is lead author of a paper published April 10 in Current Biology. “But not all species are equal in their genetic or geographic rarity. We provide a framework for how such species information could be used for prioritizing conservation.” (more…)

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