Mapping the path to rewilding: the importance of landscape
Credit: Credit: David Mencin via Imaggeo MUNICH -- Rewilding--a hands-off approach to restoring and protecting biodiversity--is increasingly employed across the ...
Tag: Biodiversity
First description of a new octopus species without using a scalpel
Biologists at the University of Bonn use state-of-the-art non-destructive methods to study an octopus from the deep seaCredit: © Alexander ...
International award for IPK scientist Nils Stein
Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring "Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will be awarded a medal from the Royal Physiographical Society ...
Response options should be at the center of climate risk assessment and management
Credit: Simpson et al. 2021 (please hyperlink to paper) A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative ...
Defense mechanisms in aphids can become a double-edged sword, sharpened by the seasons
Protective endosymbiont dynamics in pea aphids are sharpened by selectionCredit: Drexel University/Linyao Peng Evolution is unfolding in real time within ...
Unlocking Australia’s biodiversity, one dataset at a time
Credit: CSIRO Australia's unique and highly endemic flora and fauna are threatened by rapid losses in biodiversity and ecosystem health, ...
Plant provenance influences pollinators
Researchers study the importance of interactions between plants and insects in the restoration of ecosystemsCredit: WWU - Peter Lessmann Insect ...
BioRescue creates four new northern white rhino embryos
Credit: BioRescue/Rio the photographer This is the most successful series of procedures - from oocyte collection in Kenya to in ...
Warming seas might also look less colorful to some fish. Here’s why that matters.
Climate change is driving some fish into cooler, deeper waters. Now they may be faced with another challenge: how to ...
Improved management of farmed peatlands could cut 500 million tons CO2
Reduced emissions from halving drainage depths would be equivalent to 1% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gasesCredit: Picture: Alex Cumming Substantial ...
Announcing the 2021 BioOne Ambassador Award Winners
Credit: BioOne WASHINGTON, D.C. -- BioOne (about.BioOne.org) is proud to announce the winners of the 2021 BioOne Ambassador Award. These ...
OU Doctoral student’s research on fruit fly behavior earns award at international conference
Credit: Preston Larson Mehrnaz Afkhami, a doctoral biology student at the University of Oklahoma, was awarded the graduate student poster ...
Understanding our restoring force
Research team shows that restoration efforts can brighten an ecosystem's future, but cannot erase its pastCredit: Nash Turley An expansive ...
Ten ways to ensure bees benefit from the solar power boom
Researchers assessing the impact of solar energy development across Europe have come up with ten ways in which the expansion ...
Shedding light on the long and the short of plant growth
Credit: John Innes Centre What keeps some plants squatting close to the soil while others - even those closely related ...
Archaeological data demand new approaches to biodiversity conservation
Credit: Erle Ellis Professor Nicole Boivin, Director of the Department of Archaeology at the Max Planck Institute for the Science ...
Who is selling and trafficking Africa’s wild meat?
Study looks at different types of traffickers and sellers in citiesCredit: Michelle Wieland/WCS BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (April 19, 2021) ...
Corals go hungry long before they bleach
Credit: © 2021 Morgan Bennett Smith The results of coral beaching are obvious -- stark underwater forests of white coral ...
UK waters are home again to the bluefin tuna
Credit: Tom Horton Atlantic bluefin tuna have returned to UK waters and can once again be seen during the summer ...
Where’s my horse-sized rabbit?
Kyoto University examines the lack of size diversity in rabbits and haresCredit: Adrienne Stroup (https://adriennestroup.wordpress.com/) Japan -- Next to cat ...