Endangered species: Mediterranean acts

Endangered species and endangered knowledge

The recent discovery of a new species of land iguana in the Galapagos (Tzika et al. 2008; Gentile et al. 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009) is indeed an exciting novelty, of great interest to all zoologists and evolutionary biologists. This species being apparently represented only by a very small population with a very limited range, it was described as a new taxon following an unusual procedure: no ...

Cloning endangered animal species?

Anesthesiologist Scientist: Endangered Species

To the Editor:—As a junior faculty member committed to becoming an anesthesiology physician scientist, I read the article by Schwinn and Balser on recruiting and training more of my own with great interest. However, one issue not touched upon either in the article or in the accompanying Editorial View is that a large portion of recent anesthesiology graduates, including myself, do not hold US c...

Endangered Species in Cambodia

Just 50 years ago, large herbivores like Banteng, Asian Elephant, and Eld’s Deer as well as predators like Indochinese tiger and leopard were so abundant in the Dry Forests of North and Northeast Cambodia that scientists compared this ecoregion to the savannas of East Africa. In the troubled decades that followed, however, habitat destruction and hunting greatly reduced animal numbers and diver...

The Mediterranean deep-water kelp Laminaria rodriguezii is an endangered species in the Adriatic Sea

Deep-water kelps are little-known large brown algae occurring close to the lower limit of photosynthetic life in the sea. This study compares historical and recent records of the deep-water Mediterranean kelp Laminaria rodriguezii in the Adriatic Sea. Historical records include data from herbarium collections and trawling fishery expeditions in the mid-twentieth century, while recent data compr...