Alarming Butterflies and Go-Getter Fish.(speciation and splitting of...

Science News;  July 21, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Overlooked ways to invent new species There's a trick at the top of evolutionary...alike, but they don't belong to the same species. Instead, the five butterflies with blatantly...colors in the top row do belong to the same species. The bottom five, equally mismatched ones...

A synopsis and new species of Emilia (Compositae-Senecioneae) in Northeast...

Kew Bulletin;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Summary. The NE tropical African species of Emilia are revised and 14 species are recognised. Of these, five species are newly described and illustrated: E. herbacea, E. adamagibaensis, E. negellensis, E. serpentina and E. arvensis. One taxon is...

A New Species of Amolops (Anura: Ranidae) from Southwest China

Copeia;  December 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ...A new species of Amolops is described from a mountainous...of southern Yunnan Province, China. The species is unique in having a dark purple dorsum...Other characters that distinguish this species from other species of Amolops include...

MODELING THE OCCURRENCE OF BIRD SPECIES: ARE THE ERRORS PREDICTABLE?(Brief...

Ecological Applications;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Typical assessments of models where many species occurrences are predicted (e.g., from species-habitat matrices or Gap Analyses) report overall omission and commission errors. Yet species' attributes suggest that we may predict a...

Sequence Diversity, Reproductive Isolation and Species Concepts in...

Genetics;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Using the biological species definition, yeasts of the genus Saccharomyces sensu stricto comprise six species and one natural hybrid. Previous work...that reproductive isolation between the species is due primarily to sequence divergence...

Three new species of Cola (Sterculiaceae) from western Cameroon

Kew Bulletin;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Summary. Three new species of Cola, C. cecidiifolia Cheek, C. metallica Cheek...status is reviewed. A vegetative key to the 24 species of Cola known from Mt Cameroon, where all three species were originally discovered, is presented. INTRODUCTION...

Trophic rank and the species-area relationship.

Ecology;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION The tendency for species richness to increase with area (the species - area relationship ) is one of the most robust...ecology (May 1975, Rosenzweig 1995). Most studies of species - area patterns have focused on particular taxa...

Modeling native-exotic species within Yellowstone Lake.

American Journal of Agricultural Economics;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Exotic species become a problem when they involve significant harm...exotic invaders contribute to the extinction of native species around the globe (Wilcove et al.). Exotic species disrupt both natural and human functions in many ecological...

State poised to add to its protected species list; The Department of...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 21, 1996 ;     700+ words ...About 100 species of Minnesota animals and plants, including such...to the state list of endangered and threatened species. That will give the DNR legal authority to protect those species and, it hopes, prevent them from joining the passenger...

Sponge systematics by starfish: predators distinguish cryptic sympatric...

The Biological Bulletin;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Introduction Failure to distinguish cryptic species can confound our understanding of ecological...biodiversity and ecosystem function, (2) species diversity and community stability, (3...extinction depend on knowing how many species are present, which individuals fall into...

A new species of Rhaptopetalum (Scytopetalaceae) from western Cameroon

Kew Bulletin;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Summary. A new species of Rhaptopetalum, R. geophylax, is described from western Cameroon...several floral characters. INTRODUCTION Rhaptopetalum Oliv with 11 species is the most species-rich genus of the predominantly African (one species in South...

WHAT IS A SPECIES?(Brief Article)

Whole Earth;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Since the all species inventory sits firmly on the art of describing species, we have included some short essays on how taxonomists...have subverted the last century's confidence in the species concept. This concept, around since the days of French...

Is he worth saving?(controversy over Endangered Species Act)

U.S. News & World Report;  July 10, 1995 ;     700+ words ...The Endangered Species Act, a law passed with virtually no legislative...have effectively barred new endangered species listings for the remainder of the fiscal...interior the power to permit a listed species to go extinct. Ironically, many ardent...

Plan curbs lawsuits on species

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 12, 2001 ;     466 words ...Plan curbs lawsuits on species '73 act allows citizens to sue to protect...suspend a provision in the Endangered Species Act that lets citizens sue the government...not moving quickly enough to assure a species' survival. Environmental groups have...

Estimating species richness: the importance of heterogeneity in species...

Ecology;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION Estimating species richness (i.e., the actual number of species present in a given area) is the basic step of many...most studies, count data (e.g., the total number of species recorded in an area at a given time) are used as...