Biodiversity science USA: top 40 priorities
Fleishman E et al (2011) Top 40 Priorities for Science to Inform US Conservation and Management Policy BioScience 61, No. 4 (April 2011), pp. 290-300 DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.4.9
The UK government's Intellectual Property Office has released a guide for UK universities for managing intellectual assets
Interesting overview of science and indigenous genomics in a Science editorial from Vanessa Hayes (Indigenous genomics, Science 6 May 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6030 p. 639 DOI: 10.1126/science.1205999) Follows up on the earlier paper in Nature in early 2010 (Schuster S C et al. Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa
Nature 463, 943-947 18 February 2010 doi:10.1038/nature08795)
Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation is a UK Department for International Development, NERC and ESRC-supported research programme - developing research on biodiversity and ecosystem services in a number of world regions.