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Solving the mystery of the dying bats
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer - By Sandy Bauers
Cradling it in gloved hands, she stretched out its wings, fanned out its minuscule toes, and examined its snout. "I've seen worse," Reeder whispered, "but, boy.. he's just covered in fungus." The Bucknell biology professor studied the bat. She knew it was white-nose syndrome, first discovered three years ago in a cave near Albany, N.Y. Bats that should have been hibernating inside were dead on the ground outside.
Since then, a million bats have died in the Northeast. Some caves have had 99 percent mortality. In a growing what-done-it mystery, white-nose spread last year to Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The latest models predict the little brown bat, the most numerous in the nation, could be extinct in 7 to 30 years...
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Understanding human threat to the Earth's largest habitat - the deep sea
Source: PhysOrg - Photo: ©2008 MBARI
When most people think about the deep sea, they picture broad expanses of muddy seafloor. However, the majority of deep-sea animals, and perhaps the majority of all animals on Earth, live in the "deep pelagic zone"- the dark waters between the ocean surface and the seafloor. An important research paper by MBARI marine biologist Bruce Robison points out that this seemingly remote habitat is increasingly being affected by human activities. Robison's paper highlights the urgent need to understand and protect the diversity of animals in this unique and vital habitat.
The "deep pelagic zone" extends from about one hundred meters (330 feet) below the ocean surface to just above the deep seafloor. Because it is four to ten kilometers (2.5 to 6 miles) deep and covers perhaps two thirds of the Earth's surface, this zone forms the largest single habitat for life on Earth. Robison suggests that the immense volume of this three-dimensional habitat contains more different species and more individual organisms than any other environment on the planet.
After decades of studying deep-sea animals, Robison says, "For most people these animals are out of sight and out of mind. They are also out of reach to all but a few scientists equipped with....
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