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s went extinct around 9 000 years ago but the research still shows that the modern species are related despite significant differences between polar bears and brown bears size coloring fur type tooth shape swimming ability vs climbing ability etc scientists have suspected for some time that the species have closely connected histories the polar bear is known to have mitochondrial dna the part of the genome contributed by the mother that traces back to the brown bear but how modern polar bears acquired this brown bear dna was a bit of a mystery via wikimedia commons the two species are known to interbreed and have been studied in captivity in addition to being spotted in the wild an example of a polar bear brown bear hybrid jokingly nicknamed grolar bear or pizzly was found in the wild canada in 2006 but even with the knowledge that the two species can co mingle scientists were still perplexed about the history of these different species the long standing theory about how polar bears evolved from brown bears had their history traced to the abc islands the alaskan islands of admiralty baranof and chichagof around 14 000 years ago but the bears genomes tell us a different story the research team led by shapiro and bradley found that the hybridization of polar bears occurred much earlier than would have been possible on the abc islands through a genetic analysis of the bears the study analyzed 242 samples from polar bear and brown bear mitochondrial dna spanning 120 000 years and several different geographical regions the researchers found that the fixation of the mitochondrial genome in polar bears likely occurred closer to 50 000 years ago in the area of present day ireland according to shapiro in addition to genetic evidence the interconnected history of the polar bear and brown bear is also supported by climate events one example of this is the british irish ice sheet which reached its maximum range around 20 000 years ago at this time parts of ireland would have been difficult to inhabit pushing bears from the warmer areas toward ice shelves and land exposed by lower sea levels this would have brought the bears into close contact with their northern neighbors showing how the animals that became two different bear species could have started out in the similar location sharing their genes the polar bear is currently considered a threatened species and future conservation efforts may be aided by this new understanding of its genetic history and its ability to hybridize with the brown bear the research is described in the paper ancient hybridization and an irish origin for the modern polar bear matriline in the journal current biology posted by unknown at 6 34 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 2 2011 an extinction intervention over the course of the year doing grad school work at uw madison i ve written a few different articles for class assignments i ve decided to publish this article here though it should be noted that this was written in december 2010 from interviews conducted throughout the fall of 2010 i feel that the information and perspectives still hold a lot of value so i wanted to share it anyway managed relocation is a potential solution to the biodiversity loss posed by climate change but the policy s unpredictable risk ignited the scientific community in a debate that questions how society views conservation in the context of impending extinction every summer your backyard garden produces a cornucopia of vegetables because it gets enough sunlight and rain to make your plants bloom but then your neighbors plant trees in their yard that cast a shadow on your garden without sunlight your plants wilt and suddenly its goodbye tomatoes so what do you do well next year you move the garden to a sunnier spot problem solved moving your garden to a sunny spot is an easy way to keep up with the changing environment of your backyard but would it work on a larger scale the rapid changes to ecosystems around the world predicted by the international panel on climate change ipcc include the widespread extinction of species that don t adapt fast enough that is unless a policy like managed relocation the shifting of species to new environments to counteract the affects of climate change can be implemented successfully some conservationists in the united states have jumped on the idea of managed relocation the most notable project so far is the transportation of the torreya torreya taxifolia a conifer tree from florida to north carolina by the independent group the torreya guardians whether the torreya experiment will work is unknown but it has drawn attention to the risk associated with relocating species torreya taxifolia via wikimedia commons unlike moving your garden to that perfect sunny spot moving species involves a fragile web of ecological connections that when broken could create more problems than solutions managed relocation is exemplary of an overall trend in ecology toward an interventionist approach focused on species this trend is a challenge to previously established conservation policy that focused on protecting habitat to help species and has opened debate about whether human meddling will save or sacrifice earth s biodiversity david richardson professor of ecology and deputy director of science strategy at the university of stellenbosch south africa says whether more attempts at managed relocation will be made and whether they occur with the sanction of government will depend on the success of projects like the one conducted by the torreya guardians a few spectacular failures would probably nail the coffin on the concept said richardson in an email message managed relocation is undoubtedly very risky and the practice could cause more problems than it solves but then losing species is also very risky so the price of taking no action could be very high perhaps higher than undertaking managed relocation the risky business of managed relocation moving species through managed relocation poses both a risk of total failure and a risk of extreme success the fragile connections between species in an ecosystem cannot be easily replaced and even the most heavily researched relocations can fail completely unexpected new connections can also form causing a species to explode in their new habitat and become invasive the way managed relocation gets framed is that it is a trade off said jason mclachlan assistant professor of biological sciences at the university of notre dame on the one hand you don t want species that you care about to go extinct but on the other hand we have a bad track record with moving species around we come with good intentions but cause more problems according to ralph grundel a research ecologist with the united states geological survey usgs in porter in the complex science of moving species is enough reason to be skeptical that managed relocation will succeed grundel s own work relocating the karner blue butterfly only a few miles away from its natural range has failed even after extensive research into the habitat specifications needed by the species karner blue butterfly source wikimedia commons when you introduce a new species into another species range you are rolling the dice because you don t know how the species will interact said grundel it can be really challenging so aside from the ethics of whether we should meddle our ability to succeed if we wanted to do these things i m pessimistic about with debate mounting about whether humans could or should micromanage the survival of species researchers like mclachlan and grundel say that a redefinition of the way the us thinks about conservation is needed to consider the ethical problems posed by intervening from conservation to intervention according to ben minteer associate professor at the center for biology and society at arizona state university for over a century the united states stance on conservation outlined by the endangered species act has been to protect species from human involvement in the species native environment but if the habitat can t be maintained due to climate change then a new policy will be needed now things are changing said minteer in the most extreme cases we have to go in and round the species up and move them to a place that is different from their native range if we don t do that we re committing them to extinction according to minteer the majority of researchers who have investigated the implications of climate change on biodiversity are in agreement that a plan is needed for future action but whether managed relocation is that plan is uncertain what we are going to be forced into is this strong interventionist approach to conservation said minteer i say this with a heavy heart but we are moving toward a planetary management situation where we become much stronger manipulators of the landscape to make it more amenable to saving species and to make sure that it provides the services that humans depend upon more harm than help we really don t know what we re doing said jessica hellmann an associate professor in the department of biological sciences at the university of notre dame but everything that we do has side affects hellmann says managed relocation can be thought of like a medical treatment cancer patients are given chemotherapy even though it has detrimental side affects because the treatment is more beneficial than the side affects are harmful managed relocation may be a treatment for species suffering from climate change but researchers don t know if the benefits will outweigh the side affects researchers are experimenting to figure out which species can be moved and where they can go based on climate change models we want to create the sweet spot said hellmann you want the population to be successful you just don t want it to be so successful that it starts overwhelming other species and damages the ecosystem while some researchers are busy figuring out the feasibility of managed relocation others have taken a different approach to finding solutions to the extinction problem posed by climate change we aren t going to be good at managed relocation and the consequences of not being good at it go back to this larger issue of how we as a society deal with changing climate said mclachlan according to mclachlan instead of trying to make solutions like managed relocation feasible researchers should attack the underlying problem climate change itself the idea that any of these other plans is going to be easier and less expensive than just reducing green house gas emissions isn t true said mclachlan at least with green house gases we know how to reduce them and we know it would work when compared the uncertainty of managed relocation makes the certainty of reducing green house gas emissions a sensible undertaking right now our path is to totally perturb the earth and then go around and fix it afterwards said mclachlan if you don t like that option you might think about not breaking the entire earth system in the first place according to grundel the united states is in the middle of what he calls devilishly difficult decisions about ecological policy while researchers may be at odds about human interference one thing is certain rash future action could trigger unexpected detrimental effects we re doing an unprecedented manipulation of earth s atmosphere but we can t predict the dynamics said mclachlan the answer is we better be careful everyone lives on this planet so it s really not a good idea to do an unprecedented experiment on it posted by unknown at 10 20 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 13 2011 animal tagging ethics king penguins source wikimedia commons new research published in the journal nature says that the most popular way for tagging penguins for scientific analysis putting a band around a flipper may be detrimental to the penguins reproduction and survival this brings up the ethical issue of whether or not the practice of tagging with a band should be continued researchers from the university of strasbourg and the french centre national de la recherche scientifique cnrs wanted to clear up debate about whether or not the tags which have been in use for over a decade have an effect on the penguins detrimental or otherwise the study in king penguins showed that penguins tagged with the bands had 40 fewer chicks than un banded penguins banded penguins also lived shorter lives the finding is likely to be controversial because it draws into question the validity of past research done using the bands the research also has ties to climate change because many penguin species are already threatened due to changes in their environment in addition to the typical ethics of whether or not its right to do something that could be harmful in any way tagging with the bands could also be seen as unethical for stressing an already challenged populations posted by unknown at 9 59 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday september 22 2010 this is not polite dinner conversation francis and i have been having the most ridiculous conversations over dinner apparently we both favor talking about the things you aren t supposed to talk about like religion abortion politics and even global warming i guess we are just getting a feel for each other and what we think and believe although i have a tendency to provide my opinions about these topics freely which i suppose thats why getting my own voice out of my reporting was a challenge for me when i first started writing but on the topic of global warming she made a fairly decent argument for why she doesn t believe in global warming specifically she does believe in climate change based on the geologic record of cooling and warming trends but she is a geologist after all on the opposing side i think i also made a good argument in favor of global warming and climate change in the end it was a respectful parting of opinions which when you share a small apartment is probably best this article in the new york times reminded me of our global warming conversation because i think it is another scientific finding that provides evidence in favor of global warming extreme heat bleaches coral and threat is seen by justin gillis reports on the mass death of coral reefs due to high water temperatures according to the article with the rising temperatures the coral are far more sensitive so any other slight disturbance in their environment can send them right over the edge causing them to lose their color killing the organisms that rely of them national oceanic and atmospheric association noaa scientists believe that 2010 will rival 1998 as the hottest year on record and probably the most damaging to coral not that you can just accept everything noaa says but i do think that the article presents a concise and lo...