BioChange : Biodiversity and environmental change

BioChange, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, is an integrated study encompassing a range of scales, taxa and habitats. The study is centred around County Clare (Ireland) including Galway Bay and the Aran Islands, and is conducted by a partnership of Irish universities. The study consists of four complementary work packages: Landscape conservation; Non-native species; Pollution; and Natural resource exploitation. The aims are to develop fundamental biodiversity research and capacity building in taxonomic skills, as well as development of biodiversity indicators and biomonitoring tools. The website gives details of each strand of the project, the personnel involved, and links to other related sites.

http://www.biochange.ie/

Copyright 2006-2009

Journal of ecology special feature : plant--soil interactions and the carbon cycle

This Special Feature published within an issue of the 'Journal of Ecology' (Volume 97 (5), September 2009) is aimed at researchers and undergraduates interested in the ways that plants influence soil carbon dynamics, and is available to all in full-text free of charge. It arose from the 2008 Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society, London and comprises an introduction and six peer reviewed articles by experts on ecosystem carbon dynamics. The papers consider global carbon cycle models, how plant traits and attributes of plant communities influence carbon input and cycling, and decomposition processes. The Journal of Ecology is published by the British Ecological Society and made available on the Web by Wiley InterScience.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122543439/issue

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Genetically Engineered organisms, wildlife, and habitat: a workshop summary

This book, published by the National Academies Press in 2008, represents the findings of a workshop held by the US Geological Survey and the National Research Council (NRC) to identify research needed into the ecological effects of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) on wildlife and habitats. The use of GEOs is established in agricultural crop production, and research is underway to develop a wider range of them (including fish, trees, microbes, and insects) that could transform aquaculture, biofuels production and pharmaceuticals. The hardcopy version can be purchased, but the full text can be read free online in both HTML and PDF formats.

http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12218

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Physics-Online.Ru

"Turpion Ltd in cooperation with Institute of Physics Publishing and editorial offices of the Russian Academy of Sciences presents an online community Physics-Online.Ru to attract a wide circle of scientists, scholars, students and post graduates to discussions of modern physics' problems.... Members of the community can submit their subjects for the discussion, download their materials on the web site, exchange comments, participate in news' section update, have open access to the most cited articles of Physics-Uspekhi, Quantum Electronics, and some other journals"

http://www.physics-online.ru/about_proj.phtml?option_lang=eng

Imaging Cell Biology

In November 2008, noted chemists Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Tsien were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Their work dealt with experiments that identified green fluorescent protein (GFP) and also showed that it can be used as a tool to study a wide range of cellular processes. The Trends of Cell Biology journal decided to commemorate the one year anniversary of this recognition by creating this special issue devoted to state-of-the-art imaging processes. Available online here, this issue provides "a snapshot of some of the most exciting work being done in cell biology using GFP, its relatives and derivatives, and other innovative tools and techniques." Here visitors can browse through the articles, and the introduction contains a narrative discussion of each article's main points and scientific processes.

http://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/special_issue

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TechJournalContents

Keyword search more than 3,500 scholarly technology journals to find new/recent content. You can also save your searches as RSS feeds and use an aggregator, place the feeds on web pages, etc. to monitor for new articles on your search terms.

About 400 of the journals are open access and the content is available for free. Most articles offer direct links to full text but you’ll need a personal or institutional subscriptions to access the material.

"TechJournalContents ingests Tables of Contents RSS feeds provided by numerous journal publishers such as Springer, Emerald, Inderscience, Wiley Interscience, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, IEEE, Sage, AIP, IMechE, etc"

http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/techtocs/

Climate Debate Daily

"Climate Debate Daily is intended to deepen our understanding of disputes over climate change and the human contribution to it. The site links to scientific articles, news stories, economic studies, polemics, historical articles, PR releases, editorials, feature commentaries, and blog entries. The main column on the left includes arguments and evidence generally in support of the IPCC position on the reality of signficant anthropogenic global warming. The right-hand column includes material skeptical of the IPCC position and the notion that anthropogenic global warming represents a genuine threat to humanity.

Many sites on the Internet, including some of those listed at the far left of the page, take firm views for or against the threat of anthropogenic global warming. As a matter of editorial policy, Climate Debate Daily maintains a studied neutrality, allowing each side to present its most powerful and persuasive case. Our object is to allow readers to form their own judgments based on the best available information."

http://climatedebatedaily.com/

Office of Scientific and Technical Information

The mission of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is to advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to Department of Energy (DOE) researchers and the public

http://www.osti.gov/mission

The Swingle Plant Anatomy Reference Collection

Born in 1871 in Pennsylvania, Walter Tennyson Swingle grew up with little formal schooling, but he ended up working for well over half a century in
the fields of tropical botany and Chinese literature. Created by the University of Miami Libraries and Professor Barbara Whitlock, this digital
archive brings together primary documents, slides, and other items taken from the Swingle archives. On the homepage, visitors can look through four
primary sections, including the "Plant Anatomy Digital Archive" and "Plant Anatomy Animations". In the "Plant Anatomy Digital Archive", visitors can
browse over 1700 images from more than 250 species collected from all over the world. Also, visitors can learn about the challenges involved with
maintaining such a collection. Moving on, the "Plant Anatomy Animations" are utterly fascinating, as they consist of transforming images of consecutive
microtome sections, providing "a new perspective on how plants are constructed in three dimensions." The site is rounded out with a section on
Swingle himself, complete with a biography, articles about his work, and a link to some of his publications.

http://swingle.miami.edu/

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