Image: Australian Museum Tongue biters have been in my inbox a few times lately. If you’ve managed never to come across these interesting little isopods before, they are members of a wholly parasitic group called the Cymothoidae. For regular readers of Deep Sea News, you can think about them as smaller versions of Bathynomus, which . . . → Read More: No fish is an island
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By para_sight, on  March 19th, 2012  10 comments  Biodiversity, Critters, Microbes, Ramblings  Biodiversity, diversity, fish, parasites By Kevin Zelnio, on January 9th, 2012 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment Biodiversity, Science Communication Last thursday I was a guest on Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour talking about communicating biodiversity (interview starts at 8 minutes in). It was response to an article I wrote on EvoEcoLab, another blog I write for Scientific American, titled The (Mis)use of Messaging in Biodiversity Loss Prevention. It was a lot of fun and I’m . . . → Read More: The Biodiverse Universe
By Archie Teuthis, on August 30th, 2011 One comment Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, New Research Animal Kingdom, Biodiversity, Catalogue of Life, Census of Marine Life, CoML, Ian Poiner, Mark Gibson, Species Accumulation Curve, Species Discovery, Species Diversity, taxonomy, World Register of Marine Species, WORMS Mark Gibson is a divemaster, social scientist, and independent writer living in Washington, DC. He can be found blogging at Breaching the Blue. You can find Mark on twitter @breachingblue. The following post is cross-posted at his blog here. —————————————— How many marine species are there? It is a question that stumped even the . . . → Read More: New Innovative Estimate of Total Marine Species
By Dr. M, on March 21st, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Environmental Sciences, Fishing, Natural Disaster, Uncategorized Biodiversity, conservation, environmental impact, tsumai Figure from UNEP: These images show a combination of a rocky, hilly headland along with a small river delta and swampy coastal strip. A low-lying wetland area connects the northern and western ocean fronts. An integration of natural and agricultural ecosystems operating prior to the tsunami combined rice cultivation, and fish/shrimp ponds, alongside natural delta . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: The Environmental Impacts of Tsunamis
By Dr. M, on March 21st, 2011 2 comments Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love, Climate Change Biodiversity, climate change, deep sea Over at Uncharted Atolls there is nice primer on the biodiversity of the deep and climate change. Add it to you “to do” list for today. Despite the isolation experienced by the deep-sea, the climate does have an effect in this seemingly remote environment. via Frontiers: The deep sea and climate | Uncharted Atolls. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Over at Uncharted Atolls there is nice primer on the biodiversity of the deep and climate change. Add it to you “to do” list for today. Despite the isolation experienced… By Dr Bik, on March 20th, 2011 2 comments Biodiversity, Ecology, Opinion, Ramblings, Scientist! Biodiversity, career, computational biology, cyberinfrastructure, DNA, marine biology, sequencing So you wanna be a marine biologist in the 21st century? Better crack open that MacBook and start writing perl scripts. As part of our NSF RAPID grant studying the impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill, our group is busy organizing an outreach workshop for undergrads entitled the “Bioinformatics of Biodiversity”. We’ll be giving a . . . → Read More: A 21st century view of Marine Biology
By Dr Bik, on March 10th, 2011 One comment Biodiversity, Ecology, Invertebrate Wars, New Research, Open Access Biodiversity, deep sea, molecular phylogeny, nemtodes Sometimes I am stunned by the vastness of the internet, as well as the brief 15-nanoseconds of fame that go along with most of its content. The other day I discovered the ‘Charlie the Unicorn’ videos on YouTube, after (ironically?) having a conversation with a real three-dimensional human. I was excited by this hilarity and . . . → Read More: Deep-sea additions to the Nematode Tree of Life
By Dr. M, on February 24th, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Environmental Sciences, Evolution, Geology, Natural Disaster, New Research, Paleobiology, Paleobiology ammonoid, anoxia, Biodiversity, Cambrian explosion, coal fly ash, extintion, flood basalt, mass extinction, Paleobiology, Permian, Siberian Trap An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Heightened biodiversity may make an ecosystem more stabile and robust. One of the reasons for this is that high biodiversity may create redundant species, i.e. species that serve a similar ecological role in the ecosystem. A loss of one species may not . . . → Read More: Tide Pool: Cephalopods, Ash, and Sulphur Are to Blame
By Dr. M, on February 6th, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Books/Media, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Biodiversity, deep sea, Podcast, radio interview Jai Ranganathan speaks to me about the biodiversity of the deep sea and my paper from last year. More than 70 percent of the earth is ocean floor, an environment as lethal to human life as outer space. With pressures hundreds of times stronger than on the surface, no sunlight, and near freezing temperatures, it . . . → Read More: Curiouser Podcast: Life Under Constant Pressure
By Dr. M, on February 2nd, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Environmental Sciences, Geology, New Research, New Species, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, Uncategorized Biodiversity, methane, Methane Seep, mud volcano via “Gooey” New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian Sea There’s a new island in the azure waters off Pakistan, but you might want to hold off on vacation planning: The tiny dot is a mud volcano that will likely disappear before it sees 1,001 Arabian nights. Pakistani fishers reported the new mud volcano in the Arabian . . . → Read More: “Gooey” New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian Sea
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