Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

18

12 2015

Dec 18, 2015

A gene for new species is discovered
"We knew for decades that something like this gene ought to exist, and our approach finally allowed us to identify it," says biologist Nitin Phadnis, principal author of the study published tod...
18

12 2015

Dec 18, 2015

Fungi may help drought-stressed wheat
Water scarcity has a negative impact on wheat production. As a consequence of exposure to drought, crops show poorer growth and lower yield. This is a serious problem as the predicted increase ...
18

12 2015

Dec 18, 2015

Wax shield let seeds conquer Earth
The results are published in the journal PLoS Genetics.
　　Plants have devised a great survival tool: the seed. The embryo contained within, dormant and protected by a resistant coat, can trav...
18

12 2015

Dec 18, 2015

Will grassland soil weather a change?
Scientists are learning more about how important these microbes are. But how do changes in temperature and precipitation levels affect microbes? And will that affect carbon storage?
　　A view ...
18

12 2015

Dec 18, 2015

Carbon emissions from Indonesian peat fires vary considerably based on fire type, research shows
The study, which was co-authored by Professor Susan Page and Dr Kevin Tansey from the University of Leicester's Department of Geography, also found that peatlands closer to canals have a higher...
18

12 2015

Dec 18, 2015

A field research network to address looming grain failures
Declining crop production in the US Midwest could have global-scale implications, warn the authors: "What happens to Midwest farmers affects the world. Midwest farmers produce the dominant shar...
18

12 2015

Dec 18, 2015

New technique both enhances oil recovery, sequesters carbon dioxide
The team estimated that companies using this new technique would greatly improve oil recovery rates. They developed a model that indicates that the process could extract between 78 and 90 perce...
18

12 2015

Dec 18, 2015

Growing crops on organic soils increases greenhouse gas emissions, say scientists
Reducing the emission from cultivated organic soils is an obvious choice to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions from agriculture, says Professor J？rgen E. Olesen from the Department of ...
18

12 2015

Dec 18, 2015

Phytoplankton like it hot: Warming boosts biodiversity and photosynthesis in phytoplankton
The groundbreaking study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, was carried out over five years using artificially warmed ponds that simulated the increases in temperature expected by the end ...
18

12 2015

Dec 18, 2015

Climate change rapidly warming world's lakes
The study is the largest of its kind and the first to use a combination of satellite temperature data and long-term ground measurements. A total of 235 lakes, representing more than half of the...