Biodiversity
Nature s contributions to people found to be in decline
Credit: Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas Over the past 50 years, declining biodiversity has put many of nature s contributions to people at...
Nature conservation requires more dynamic approach to weather impacts of climate change
Current nature conservation practices are not sufficiently flexible and dynamic to weather the impacts of climate change. Credit: Anton Jordaan...
Miniature guttural toads on Mauritius and Réunion stun researchers
Dwarfism occurring in less than a hundred years Credit: James Baxter-Gilbert Researchers from the DSI/NRF Center for Invasion Biology at...
Measurements of tree height can help cycad conservation decisions
Credit: University of Guam A multi-national research team has exploited long-term data sets that span 2001 to 2018 to reveal...
Natural reward theory could provide new foundation for biology
Credit: LE Gilbert A link between evolution over short time frames (microevolution) and long time frames (macroevolution) that could open...
Remote Hawaiian island harbors last land snails of their kind
Credit: David Sischo GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The island of Nihoa, a slice of jagged rock that juts out of the...