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Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
 Freshwater Biology
Research shows river dredging reduced fish numbers, diversity
Comparing dredged and undredged sections of the Allegheny River, reduced populations of fish and less variety of aquatic life occurred in areas where gravel extraction took place, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences,.
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
aem1@psu.edu
814-865-9481
Penn State
Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
Potentially 'catastrophic' changes underway in Canada's northern Mackenzie River Basin: report
Canada's Mackenzie River basin -- among the world's most important major ecosystems -- is poorly studied, inadequately monitored, and at serious risk due to climate change and resource exploitation, a panel of international scientists warn.
Largest single threat to the Basin: a potential breach in the tailings ponds at one of the large oil sands sites mining surface bitumen. A breach in winter sending tailings liquid under the ice "would be virtually impossible to remediate or clean-up."
Contact: Terry Collins
tc@tca.tc
416-538-8712
Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy
Public Release: 7-Jun-2013
 Ecological Modelling
Drought, river fragmentation forcing endangered fish out of water, biologist finds
A researcher is discovering that the North American drought has caused dramatic changes in native fish communities.
Contact: Keith Gido
kgido@k-state.edu
785-532-5088
Kansas State University
Public Release: 7-Jun-2013
 Ethology
Oh brother, where art thou?
Many animals are able to discriminate between related and unrelated individuals but how they do so has proven remarkably difficult to understand. Joachim Frommen and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have investigated the issue using the three-spined stickleback and its shoaling preferences as a model system. It turns out that the fish prefer kin to unrelated conspecifics, regardless of how familiar they are with individual shoal members.
Contact: Sarah Zala
sarah.zala@vetmeduni.ac.at
43-148-909-15852
University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna
Public Release: 6-Jun-2013
 Marine Mammal Science
Stranded orcas hold critical clues for scientists
The development of a standardized killer-whale necropsy system has boosted the complete data from killer-whale strandings from two percent to about 33 percent, according to a recent study from a team of scientists, including a University of California, Davis wildlife veterinarian.
Contact: Joe Gaydos
jkgaydos@ucdavis.edu
360-376-3910
University of California - Davis
Public Release: 6-Jun-2013
 Journal of Morphology
Smithsonian scientists confirm theory regarding the origins of the sucking disc of remoras
Remora fish, with a sucking disc on their heads, have been the stuff of legend. They often attach themselves to boat hulls and were once thought to purposely slow the boat down. While that is a misunderstanding, something else not well understood was the origins of the fish's sucking disc. Scientists at the Smithsonian and London's Natural History Museum, however, have solved that mystery proving that the disc is actually a greatly modified dorsal fin.
Contact: John Gibbons
gibbonsjp@si.edu
202-633-5187
Smithsonian
Public Release: 6-Jun-2013
 Journal of Experimental Biology
By trying it all, predatory sea slug learns what not to eat
Researchers found that a type of predatory sea slug with a simple nervous system has more complex cognitive abilities than previously thought, allowing it to learn the warning cues of dangerous prey and avoid them in the future.
Contact: Chelsey B. Coombs
diya@illinois.edu
217-333-5802
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Public Release: 6-Jun-2013
NASA sees heavy rainfall in tropical storm Andrea
NASA's TRMM satellite passed over Tropical Storm Andrea right after it was named, while NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of the storm's reach hours beforehand.

NASA
Contact: Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Public Release: 6-Jun-2013
 Hydrobiologia
Alpine lakes reflect climate change
Increases in temperature as a result of climate change are mirrored in lake waters where temperatures are also on the rise. A new study, by Dr. Martin Dokulil, retired researcher from the Institute for Limnology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, forecasts surface water temperatures in large Austrian lakes for 2050 and discusses the impact on the lakes' structure, function and water quality. The research is published online in Springer's journal Hydrobiologia.

Austrian Federal Forests
Contact: Joan Robinson
joan.robinson@springer.com
49-622-148-78130
Springer
Public Release: 6-Jun-2013
 Science
Gannets don't eat off each other's plates
Colonies of gannets maintain vast exclusive fishing ranges despite doing nothing to defend their territory from rival colonies, scientists have discovered.

Natural Environmental Research Council
Contact: Chris Bunting
c.j.bunting@leeds.ac.uk
44-113-343-2049
University of Leeds

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