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- Include with your submission: your name, your section, the title of the article and the URL link to it's source. Additionally, upon submitting the above, I ask that you also include a very brief description. Hint: make your article stand out, in other words, make me want to read what you've found.
- Should you be selected as one of the lucky three, you will be required to write a 200 to 500 word blog post that describes the article you found. The post you write up will be featured on this blog. Your post must include citations and references giving credit to the original source. As an example, see the first post on this blog: HERE, note that the description is 291 words in length.
- Should two students find and post the same article/story, regardless of source, the first student who posted the article/story in the comments will be considered.
- Lastly, this extra credit can only be received once by an individual student.
7 comments:
Tiereny Morrison-Rohlfs
Biol 124 Section 22
Cats kill more than one billion birds each year
Outdoor house cats kill billions of birds per year! If this continues, bird populations in certain areas can greatly decrease. This would cause a huge domino affect on the way of life in different areas. With so many the baby birds not being able to grow into adult reproducing birds then what does this mean for bird populations, along with so many others?!
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347928/description/Cats_kill_more_than_one_billion_birds_each_year
Brendan Morgan
Biol 124-22
It seems as though we've made a fatal mistake!
The way the world has been assesing the extinction risk of threatened species was flawed. It looks as if the existing model failed to incorporate several factors that could make or break threatened species! How knows how many species may have been effected by this mistake in the system!
http://find.galegroup.com/gic/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=DateDescend&tabID=T004&prodId=GIC&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R2&searchType=¤tPosition=3&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28KE%2CNone%2C18%29population+ecology%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28LU%2CNone%2C39%29%22Population+Ecology%7Cpopulation+Ecology%22%24&userGroupName=mlin_w_sprcol&inPS=true&docId=A324788068&contentSet=IAC-Documents&docId=A324788068&docType=IAC
Carly Roy
BIOL 124-21
New Territory
The retreat of glaciers and melting of snow patches in Antarctica are evoking an expansion in Adelie penguin's habitat. This is leading a beneficial effect for the penguins, causing their population to flourish with an increase in 71% over the last five decades! Who knew there were any positive effects resulting from global warming?
http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2013/04/new-territory/
Daniel Fay
BIOL 124-25
Crustacean Comeback : Scientists Plan to Settle Lobsters In Wind Farms
What a weird thing to think about? Lobsters living in wind turbines! In the German Island of Helgoland, scientists are trying to help the population of lobsters grow. Because of their incredible taste with a little melted butter, lobsters have been caught for years. Their population has been decreasing drastically and despite breeding 10,000 lobsters over the last 10 years, their attempts are futile. These wind turbines will not only create a renewable source of energy but the base of these buildings have a perfect habitat for lobsters. The lobster plays an important role in the North Sea's ecosystem. The only drawback to this elaborate and expensive plan to repopulate the oceans is that lobsters are known to EAT EACH OTHER!
Don't forget to look at the pictures and see the THOUSANDS of eggs a female lobster can carry!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/researchers-are-hoping-to-boost-lobster-populations-in-the-north-sea-a-895477.html
Lauren Peladeau
BIOL 124-22
"Attack of the Rats"
Imagine walking in India on a warm, sunny day, admiring the beautiful green bamboo and enjoying the unique culture of the area. Moments later, an army of hungry rats begin running towards you, attacking the bamboo and destroying the area. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Well, this is reality for the remote Indian state of Mizoram once every 48 years. The inhabitants of this area suffer from the "mautam", which is when an indigenous species of bamboo blooms once every half-century, causing millions of rats to flood to the area to feed on the bamboo's fruit. According to the article, this rat army is so huge and vicious that some scientists thought it was just a myth! The unusual relationship between the bamboo and the rats of the area has the power to turn the ecology of this region upside down.
Check out this unbelievable article about population ecology and if you're brave, take a peek at the pictures of the huge armies of rats!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9198000/9198744.stm
To see the rats in action, be sure to watch the NOVA episode about this unique topic! (http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/54/nova/ep:3603)
Gabriela Christ
Biol 124-23
An Emperor Penguin Population Estimate: The First Global, Synoptic Survey of a Species from Space
Do you know how many Emperor Penguin breeding colonies there are? This is exactly what this article informs the reader in a detailed description stating how they found this information. The estimated population of Emperor Penguins with a survey in Antarctica using satellite imagery to identify locations. They found four new colonies with confirmed locations in three previously found sites. They found 46 Emperor Penguin breeding colonies with about 238,000 breeding pairs. Prior to this there was poor understanding of total breeding populations, but with this new information they found estimated total number of breeding populations and further populations, therefore providing a baseline for research down the road. In addition this article talks about how the growing populations will be affected by climate change, thus altering the marine food webs.
Don’t forget to look at the many data tables, scientific images, graphs and maps provided by this article to help further your knowledge on this interesting material.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033751
Victoria Fryzel
124-23
Humanity is Not A Plague on Earth
MANKIND IS A PLAGUE ON EARTH!! Are only option:KILL OR BE KILLED! Limit the population growth or the natural world will do it for us! David Attenborough believes everyone's worst fears will come true. The world's population will grow, food will run out,and we will all die due to mass starvation! But is that really true? Though world hunger is a constant battle, some believe that our world population rate has actually begun to slow down. However, with our forests, vegetation, and natural food sources continuing to deplete, are we really out of the woods? This article will provide you with insight into experts theories on the fate of this world. Read the article, understand the theories, and then you decide...is the human race going to make it??
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/de-extinction-is-the-mind-blowing-idea-of-the-year/2013/03/19/cbbce3b8-908e-11e2-9173-7f87cda73b49_blog.html
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