Tuesday, March 06, 2018
Algal blooms can kill fish and harm a lake's ecosystem, but by reducing two nutrients together such as nitrogen and phosphorus - not just one or the other - water managers might limit the blooms in lakes and rivers, a new University of Florida study shows. ..
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A new University of Florida study shows ecologists may have been missing crucial information from animal bones for more than 150 years. ..
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Using a new comprehensive index designed to assess the benefits to people of healthy oceans, a team of scientists that includes USF Biological Oceanographer Kendra Daly has evaluated the ecological, social, economic and political conditions for every coastal country in the world. ..
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
A Nova Southeastern University (Nova) researcher has invented software
that helps predict invasion patterns of non-native species including the
lionfish, a predatory species that has invaded Florida’s coastal waters as well as the Loxahatchee River. ..
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Using a state-of-the-art electron microscopy at Florida State
University, FSU biologist Akshinthala K.S.K. Prasad recently identified a
new diatom genus and species, and he didn't have to look far to find
it. He discovered the novel diatom in a seven-year-old sample of
material that a colleague had collected from the St. Johns River in
Northeast Florida's Putnam County. Consultations with international
diatom experts helped to confirm that what he was seeing was something
entirely new at the genus level and undocumented at the species level. ..
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Guy Harvey, the renowned artist, scientist, and conservationist, recently donated $100,000 to Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) to conduct research on fisheries. ..
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