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Elemental factors and ecology
The identification of general connections between the chemical composition of organisms and the laws of ecosystem function and structure is an increasingly present objective in the current agenda of ecology. For this reason we consider the ratio among the main elements (carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus)...
Fossil horse teeth show climatic change
Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia and Utrecht University have analyzed the tooth enamel of fossil horse teeth dating from 11 to 2 million years ago near Teruel, Daroca and Valencia. Changes in the proportion of light and heavy oxygen isotopes in the teeth suggest...
First pollen calendar of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The UAB Laboratory of Palynological Analysis, in collaboration with the firm Air Liquide and the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET), has developed the first pollen and spore calendar of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. This is one of the results of a research being carried out under...
UAB researchers first to clone mice in Spain
Researchers at the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology at UAB are the first to have cloned mice in Spain. Cloe, Cleo and Clona are three female brown-coloured mice and were born respectively on 12 May, 3 June and 10 June. By means of nuclear transfer techniques,...
Organic agriculture: a good option to be improved
Ecological farming is possible and the range of possibilities is large, but not all are advantages. The biodiversity of fields is affected by the changes involved in both using organic fertilisers and the management of weeds. Precisely how weeds are eliminated seems to be...
ICP-UAB researchers describe a new hominid
A group of researchers from the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology (ICP-UAB), directed by professor Salvador Moyà-Solà, published this week in the prestigious US scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the results of their research regarding...
