Scott | April 10, 2009
Tweet Well after a week of battling a hosting issue, I am finally back online and able to access my account. However, I think the headache will be worth it as the updates made to JournOwl.com will increase site usability , especially enabling visitor comments that I hope will spur discussion and continue to link [...]
Category: Endangered species, Wildlife |
4 Comments »
Tags: adapt, Biodiversity, coral reef, Endangered species, genetics, habitat loss, hybridization, hybrids, species
Scott | January 10, 2009
Tweet Who you gonna call? Raccoons! Well, that’s what a new study in Biological Conservation is suggesting in regards to threatened loggerhead turtles. Conservation plans typically call for raccoon management tactics as they are notorious sea turtle egg harvesters. At face value it makes sense to control sea turtle egg predation by keeping such nest [...]
Category: Biodiversity, Endangered species, Sea turtles, Wildlife, Wildlife management |
2 Comments »
Tags: Biodiversity, conservation, Endangered species, food web, ghost crabs, loggerhead sea turtle, raccoon, Sea turtles, turtle eggs, Wildlife management
Scott | November 25, 2008
TweetI guess I was not paying that much attention as it was only within the last two weeks that I discovered 2008 had been designated the Year of the Frog. Well, with a little more than a month to go I thought I would make a contribution to the plight of our amphibian cohabitants. In [...]
Category: Biodiversity |
1 Comment »
Tags: amphibians, Biodiversity, contamination, frogs, pollution, Year of the Frog
Scott | November 3, 2008
TweetMore than 60% of Americans believe global warming is already wielding change with its hot hand (Gallup, April 21, 2008), and things get a little bit stickier when one tries to nail down whether the green house effect is manmade, a natural climate cycle, or a combination of the two. My personal take is that [...]
Category: Biodiversity, Climate change |
No Comments »
Tags: Biodiversity, Climate change, Endangered species, global warming, plants