Fifty-Year-Old Alpine Insect Survey Rewritten by Modern Taxonomy
A 2022 resampling of a 1970s Pyrenean insect survey shows that more than a third of the original species records ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Roadside ecosystems mapped with UN accounting framework in first global study
A first application of the UN's SEEA Ecosystem Condition Typology to roadside ecosystems identifies 30 key biophysical variables and proposes ...
Two New Gelatinous Mushroom Species Unearthed in China
Two new gelatinous mushroom species, Favolaschia guangxiensis and Favolaschia microcarpa, have been described from southern and eastern China using morphology ...
Biodiversity holds the key to understanding Earth as a living system
A new opinion article argues that Earth's 4 billion years of coevolution between life and its physical environment make biodiversity ...
Large Wildflower Fields Boost Farmland Birds in Simplified Landscapes, but Also Shelter Voles
A five-year experiment in Central Hungary found that large wildflower fields increased bird species, individuals and diversity in homogeneous farmland, ...
Four New Spider-Hunting Wasp Species Discovered in China
A taxonomic review of the spider wasp genus Platydialepis in China describes four new species, reports one species new to ...
Firebreaks Leave Lasting Scars in Grasslands While Wildfire Heals Fast
A three-year study in Hungarian dry grasslands found that low-intensity wildfire caused only temporary vegetation changes, while emergency disk-harrowed firebreaks ...
New audit framework benchmarks solar farms on cost, carbon and labour
A new study proposes a standardised auditing framework that benchmarks utility-scale solar farms on economic viability, carbon mitigation, water use, ...
Rethinking common gardens for forest tree species in the face of climate change
A perspective in Annals of Forest Science argues that strategically designed common garden networks, including suboptimal sites, are essential for ...
New orb-weaver spider species Zangaraneus zhishengi described from central China
A fifth species of the orb-weaver spider genus Zangaraneus, previously known only from Xizang, has been described from the Shennongjia ...
New Report Traces Deep Histories of Biodiversity Through Global South Knowledge
A new executive report from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology argues that biodiversity has been shaped over millennia by ...
Plant Conservation Research Still Overlooks the Social Sciences, Study Finds
A bibliometric analysis of 119 Scopus-indexed publications from 1995 to 2025 finds that ecological and technical themes dominate plant conservation ...
Croatia’s Pondweeds Mapped: Nine Years of National Water Monitoring Reveal 12 Taxa
A nine-year national monitoring programme has for the first time systematically mapped the diversity and distribution of Potamogeton and Stuckenia ...
DNA Barcoding Reveals Hidden Diversity in a Thai Lake’s Macroinvertebrates
Combining morphology with COI DNA barcoding, researchers identified 86 macroinvertebrate taxa in Kwan Phayao, Thailand, and rated the lake's water ...
Indigenous Mushrooms May Boost Nutrition and Food Security, Review Finds
A review in Discover Food finds indigenous mushrooms offer protein, bioactive compounds, and sustainable cultivation potential for food security.
New EU project TETTRIX brings Europe’s species expertise to UN biodiversity talks
The new EU project TETTRIX will present its plan for an integrated European taxonomic system at the UN Biodiversity Conference ...
First Butterfly Survey Reveals 32 Species Across Ethiopian Mountain Forest Zones
A first-ever survey of Hambericho Mountain Forest in central Ethiopia recorded 32 butterfly species across forest, shrubland, and grassland zones, ...
Higher dietary diversity scores do not guarantee healthier or more sustainable diets
A narrative-conceptual review of 28 sources argues that dietary diversity indicators measure distinct constructs and that higher scores cannot universally ...
Habitat and Landscape, Not Stand Age, Shape Plant Life in Managed Oak Forests
A survey of 100 managed oak stands in southwestern Poland found that habitat and landscape variables, especially soil fertility and ...
Two New Dwarf Spiders Discovered at High Elevations on the Tibetan Plateau
Two new species of dwarf sheet-web spiders, Poeciloneta duinanensis and Poeciloneta jidingensis, have been described from high-elevation habitats in Xizang, ...
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