Biodiversity Institute, Oxford

International Biogeography Society Best Dissertation/Thesis Synopsis Award

Submissions until August 31st, 2013!

http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9b65z9rx

IBS Best Dissertation/Thesis Synopsis Award [eScholarship] announcements IBS Best Dissertation/Thesis Synopsis Award Frontiers of Biogeography and the IBS Early Career Committee are pleased to invite submissions for Doctoral Dissertation/Thesis synopses from early career biogeographers (up to 2 years after gradua‐ tion from a PhD program). A...

Work carried out by WildCRU and Earthwatch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18075711

Moth survey 'biggest of its kind' About 13,000 moths are captured and recorded by citizen scientists in a project described as the largest of its kind.

http://www.ceh.ac.uk/news/news_archive/hot-spring-2011-helps-rare-butterflies_2012_21.html

UK Butterfly Monitoring 2011 results show some respite for some rarer butterflies The record-breaking spring of 2011 helped some of the UK's rarest butterflies recover following years of decline, the latest annual report from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme has revealed.

http://vimeo.com/39048998

Welcome to the Anthropocene A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes. The film...

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/19/water-lives-animation-freshwater-ecosystems/

“Water Lives…”, An Ethereal Haiku Animation About Freshwater Ecosystems By Rob St.John How should we value and manage our freshwater ecosystems? “Water Lives…” is a new science communication animation designed to draw attention to the important (yet largely invisible) biodiversity that underpins and sustains our freshwater ecosystems. Produced at the Oxford University S...

http://www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk/news/25/02/2012/icope-2012-jake-snaddon-presented-paper-ecological-value-biodiversity-ecosystem-proc

ICOPE 2012: Jake Snaddon presented a paper on the ecological value of biodiversity to ecosystem proc On the 22nd - 24th of February the 3rd International Conference on Oil Palm and the Environment (ICOPE) meeting "Conserving Forests, Expanding Sustainable Palm Oil Productionin" was held in Nusa Dua Bali, Indonesia. At the meeting Dr Snaddon presented a paper on the ecological value of biodiversity ...

http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/takepart.aspx

How to take part So, you want to take part in Big Garden Birdwatch? That's really great news as it couldn't be easier to take part in, and your results will really help us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16698776

Suriname team find 46 new species Three-week research expedition to Suriname documents 1,300 species, including 46 believed to be new to science.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9674000/9674949.stm

BBC News - Today - In pictures: Spider web threads See the silk garments made using more than a million spiders

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16529540

Winner in satellite image contest An image of the ribbon-like Rakaia river in New Zealand has won an online vote for one company's best satellite image of 2011.

http://blog.cifor.org/6913/supernatural-plays-key-role-in-forest-use/

CIFOR Forests Blog » Supernatural plays key role in forest use BOGOR, Indonesia (11 January, 2011)_A new study co-authored by CIFOR shows that spiritual beliefs direct how many communities use forests – underscoring a need to respect local traditions in sustainable forest management strategies.

http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1126

Invisible fungi crucial for rainforest diversity A complex network of fungi in the lower canopy could be one reason tropical rainforests are home to so many different types of insects, spiders and centipedes, say scientists.