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Online Stock Market Trading Information technology is spurring a revolution in biodiversity research that can help conserve species, said six biologists on Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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Stock Investing Course "Biodiversity research today uses the latest IT as much as the traditional butterfly nets and flower presses," said Diana Wall, organizer of the symposium and soil ecologist at Colorado State University, in an interview in advance of the symposium. "It has given us the ability to draw on multiple pieces of information from across the world."

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Stock Market Game Each of the speakers at the symposium leads an international research project as part of the International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY) 2001-2002. IBOY is an initiative of DIVERSITAS, the international program on biodiversity science. It seeks to network scientists to improve knowledge about biodiversity and its importance for healthy ecosystems and human societies.

Stock Investing Game The speakers presented findings across a variety of issues, but their unifying message was that information technology has become a vital tool to help understand global biodiversity issues that are crucial for sustainability.

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Journal Prime Rate Street Wall Examples of the technologies being used include: 3-D electronic images of species that are accelerating identification of poorly known groups of animals; distributed or interconnected databases that enable scientists to query data stored in multiple databases across the world at the touch of a button; and Geographic Information Systems, a computer based tool used to map and analyze multiple characteristics of landscapes.

study of the loss of Earth's biological diversity and the ways this loss can be prevented. Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the variety of life either in a particular place or on the entire Earth, including its ecosystems, species, populations, and genes. Conservation thus seeks to protect life's variety at all levels of biological organization.

Stock Market News Diana Wall presented the preliminary findings of the Global Litter Invertebrate Decomposition Experiment (GLIDE), the first worldwide network examining the animals that dwell in soils and regulate decomposition.

Stock Investing Basics "The enormous diversity of litter fauna once made global studies impossible," said Wall, "but we use new 3-D imaging techniques and send images to colleagues around the world to accelerate identification and make the survey tractable."

Stock Investing Software Oliver Ryder, a zoologist from the Zoological Society of San Diego, discussed the latest applications of genetic technology and genomics for conserving biodiversity in native habitats. David Wake, a biologist from the University of California at Berkeley, described AmphibiaWeb, a web based system that collates data on amphibians from around the world.

Stock Market Trading Richard Mack, an ecologist at Washington State University, reported on an international study of invasive species aimed at understanding the factors that influence the rate at which these species can occupy new ranges, the extent of their ranges and their long term environmental impact.

Stock Investing For Dummy Walter Reid, director of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, described the progress after year one of this four year program to assess the consequences of changes to the world's ecosystems for human well being and to provide policy options. Thomas Lovejoy, senior advisor to the president of the United Nations Foundation and chief biodiversity advisor at the World Bank, described Amazonia GIS, another new collaborative research program that seeks to help conservation efforts by improving access to data across international borders and disciplines.

Stock Market Crash More information on the International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY) is available at: http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/IBOY

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Topic: Biodiversity

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