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Lynx and Biologists Try to Recover After Disastrous Start

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A program to bring the Canada lynx back to Colorado has drawn criticism after five of the animals starved to death in 1999. Experts discuss the program, which was organized by the state of Colorado, and the consequences for other reintroduction programs.

Colorado, Natural history, Protection and preservation, Wildlife conservation, Lynx, Lynxes

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Biologists put on mathematical glasses

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Neo-Darwinian synthesis is an example of the increased use of mathematics in many areas of biology. Important issues in theoretical biology were addressed at a 1996 meeting in Sweden sponsored by the European Science Foundation.

Usage, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Biometry, Biometric research, European Science Foundation

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Biologists get up close and personal with live cells: multiphoton imaging

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Multiphoton imaging excites natural biological fluorescence from live cells, allowing direct observation of events such as the maturation of fish egg cells, or brain neural exchanges, for the first time.

Research, Cover Story, Imaging systems, Multiphoton processes, Photon detectors

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