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 [Forests.org: Forest Protection Portal] Adapting local ecosystems can soften impact of global climate change: EurekAlert: "Think globally, act locally" makes for a nice bumper sticker - but is it an effective policy for coping with global climate change? Can local actions make a difference in a process principally driven by worldwide trends?

[Victoria Chinatown] Adapting local ecosystems can soften impact of global climate ...: Understanding the value of ecosystem change is one more tile in the global climate change mosaic, one that, according to Perrings, scientists and policymakers must understand if they are to accurately assess costs and benefits of proposed actions, track ecological assets and develop means of remedying the problem.

 [ESCCI Blog] Huge study gives wake-up call on state of world's oceans (created): Soft-bottom ecosystems and open ocean fared best but even these were not pristine in most locations. Previous studies of human impacts have focused on a single activity or on an isolated ecosystem, and rarely on a global scale.

 [Tackle Climate Change] Total human impact on oceans mapped for the first time: Previous studies of human impacts have focused on a single activity or on an isolated ecosystem, and rarely on a global scale. Fiorenza Micheli, an associate professor of biology at Stanford University, said the maps should guide ocean management in future.

 [Wired Science] Scientists Make First Map of Man's Marine Footprint: Entera team of researchers led by the National Center for EcologicalAnalysis and Synthesis' Benjamin Halpern, who in a study publishedtoday in Science used satellite images and custom-made models toevaluate the oceanic impact of coastal development, fishing, fertilizerrunoff, shipping traffic and other activities.

 [ESCCI Blog] Huge study gives wake-up call on state of world's oceans (created): A global map of the overall impact that 17 different human activities are having on marine ecosystems. Insets show three of the most heavily impacted areas in the world, and one of the least impacted areas.

 [Green Icebergs - a look at the world from a different perspective] New map of world’s oceans show damage by human impact is more than ...: The journal Science reports that the study show “human activity has left a mark on nearly every square kilometer of sea, severely compromising ecosystems in more than 40% of waters.” It described the process involved in the study.

 [A Blog Around The Clock] My picks from ScienceDaily: A new study by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society found that jack rabbits living in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have apparently hopped into oblivion. The study, which appears in the journal Oryx, also speculates that the disappearance of jack rabbits may be having region-wide impacts on a variety of other prey species and their predators.

 [olyecology weblog] 291 - Earth's Tree News: --British Columbia: 1) Drastic cutback in treeplanting, 2) Save South Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys, 3) Beetle hysteria, 4) Save Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, 5) Big ecogroups ruin GBR conservation efforts, 6) Market downturn leads to buyouts, --Pacific Northwest: 7) Loggers can’t cut Murrelet habitat, 8) 18 mills shutdown,

 [Rashid's Blog] GIS, REMOTE SENSING, AND IMAGE PROCESSING IN STUDYING URBAN SYSTEMS: In the case of a combined application, an efficient, even though more complex, approach is the integration of remote sensing data processing, GIS analyses, database manipulation and models into a single analysis system (Michael and Gabriela, 1996). Such an integrated analysis, monitoring and forecasting system based on GIS and database management system technologies requires the analyst to understand not only the problem but also the available technologies yet without being a computer expert.

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