Biodiversity science: review of the Census of Marine Life
Just posted on the secretariat website - the review of the Census of Marine Life - lessons learnt.
Just posted on the secretariat website - the review of the Census of Marine Life - lessons learnt.
Launch today of a new All-Party Parliamentary Group for Biodversity, bringing together a range of parliamentary and other interests.
Recent paper from Cheng et al in PNAS on using museum collections of formalin-preserved amphibia to investigate chytrid epidemics. Commentary from Lips. Linked in terms of techniques to Barry Clarke's work in the NHM. References/....more
Lips, K R Museum collections: Mining the past to manage the future PNAS June 7, 2011 vol. 108 no. 23 9323-9324
Cheng, T L et al. Coincident mass extirpation of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the infectious fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis PNAS June 7, 2011 vol. 108 no. 23 9502-9507
Soto-Azat C, Clarke BT, Fisher MC, Walker SF, Cunningham AA (2009) Non-invasive sampling methods for the detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in archived amphibians. Dis Aquat Organ 84:163–166.
UK government Foresight report (so horizon scanning/assessment) published in July 2011 on the International Dimensions of Climate Change, together with a wide range of supporting evidence reports.
Good video talk from Rod Page on phylogeography visualisation and other innovation at VIZBI 2011. New possibilities for presenting and engaging with scientific ideas and data - I want one of those video walls in the galleries!