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Biodiversity And The Challenge Of Saving The Ordinary, Holly Doremus
Biodiversity And The Challenge Of Saving The Ordinary, Holly Doremus
Holly Doremus
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Nature, Knowledge And Profit: The Yellowstone Bioprospecting Controversy And The Core Purposes Of America's National Parks, Holly Doremus
Nature, Knowledge And Profit: The Yellowstone Bioprospecting Controversy And The Core Purposes Of America's National Parks, Holly Doremus
Holly Doremus
Examines response to an agreement between Diversa Corp., a biotechnology company, and Yellowstone National Park, which would allow Diversa to use microbes for commercial purposes; includes laws on technology transfer and National Parks, and the role of National Parks; US.
Protistan Diversity In The Arctic: A Case Of Paleoclimate Shaping Modern Biodiversity?, Thorsten Stoeck, Jennifer Kasper, John Bunge, Chesley Leslin, Valya Ilyin, Slava S. Epstein
Protistan Diversity In The Arctic: A Case Of Paleoclimate Shaping Modern Biodiversity?, Thorsten Stoeck, Jennifer Kasper, John Bunge, Chesley Leslin, Valya Ilyin, Slava S. Epstein
Slava Epstein
Background The impact of climate on biodiversity is indisputable. Climate changes over geological time must have significantly influenced the evolution of biodiversity, ultimately leading to its present pattern. Here we consider the paleoclimate data record, inferring that present-day hot and cold environments should contain, respectively, the largest and the smallest diversity of ancestral lineages of microbial eukaryotes. Methodology/Principal Findings We investigate this hypothesis by analyzing an original dataset of 18S rRNA gene sequences from Western Greenland in the Arctic, and data from the existing literature on 18S rRNA gene diversity in hydrothermal vent, temperate sediments, and anoxic water column communities. …