Tag: Biodiversity

Strategies for growing biomass for fuel can have economic, ecological and environmental benefitsCredit: George Furey/UMN In efforts to curb our ...

Credit: Karl-Olof Bergman For pollinating butterflies, it is more important to be close to forests than to agricultural fields, according ...

Shows how life at the South Pole bounced back after mass extinctionCredit: Adrienne Stroup/Field Museum Antarctica wasn't always a frozen ...

Credit: Opencage/Wikimedia and Anna Weiss/ The University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences. Climate change is bad news for coral ...

The discovery is the latest in a series of newly described species collected as part of the Taxon Expeditions initiative ...

Credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Charles Sharp, Toby Hudson, and David Glass. Rising temperatures could make some species sterile and see ...

Recommended steps to preserve genetic composition include isolating pure species and removal of hybrids from the wildCredit: Eddy Lee Kam ...

Real-life conservation scenarios with endangered hawaiian birds to scientifically evaluate balance for re-introductions In a paper recently published in the ...

Credit: Photo taken by Asato Kuroiwa A look at the brains of an endangered spiny rat off the coast of ...

Credit: Photo: Matthias Klapproth Life on earth is complex and diverse. In the course of evolution, more and more new ...

Credit: Frazer Hodgkins & CSIP Microplastics have been found in the guts of every marine mammal examined in a new ...

Rewilding may have the potential to drastically improve biodiversity but remains a highly controversial and divisive topic. A new book ...

Credit: Andrew Griffiths Endangered species of hammerhead and dogfish are among the sharks being sold as food in the UK, ...

Tanzania's Serengeti National Park is rich enough in wildlife to support large carnivores; so why did wild dogs disappear?Credit: Per ...

Credit: Dr. Dietmar Zinner Recent studies suggest that closely related species can develop significant genetic and phenotypic differences throughout their ...

Credit: University of Basel / Dr. José Gilgado Gardens in urban areas can harbor a remarkable diversity of species. This ...

Converting low-profit land brings big returnsCredit: Lynn Betts Modern agriculture's large monoculture fields grow a lot of corn and soybeans, ...

Asian longhorned ticks threaten livestock, but scientists need help telling them apart from two near-identical speciesCredit: Andrea Egizi and co-authors. ...

A new study in The Condor: Ornithological Applications shows that certain endangered owls may continue to persist and even flourish ...

Credit: Rongrong Angkaew In the world's temperate regions, proximity to roads usually reduces the reproductive success of birds, thanks to ...