Tag: Biodiversity

March 22, 2019

Credit: ETH Zurich/Gregory J. Velicer Many living systems share a fundamental capacity for cooperation. Plants and animals are made up ...

Elevation shapes species survival in changing habitats

March 21, 2019

UTA faculty member's research holds implications for the impact of climate changeCredit: UT Arlington Luke Frishkoff, University of Texas at ...

Back to nature: Palm oil plantations are being turned back into protected rainforest

March 21, 2019

This creates a corridor for Borneo's endangered wildlifeCredit: Robert Risch, Rhino and Forest Fund e.V. (RFF) The foundation for this ...

Sustainable fisheries and conservation policy

Five-point plan to integrate 220 million recreational fishersCredit: Florian Moellers There are roughly five times as many recreational fishers as ...

Researchers analyze biodiversity patterns in Antarctic Dry Valleys

Credit: McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER Antarctica is a nearly uninhabited, ice-covered continent ravaged by cold, windy, and dry conditions. Virginia ...

Butterfly numbers down by two thirds

High-intensity agriculture reduces number of butterfly species in adjacent areasCredit: Jan C. Habel / TUM Meadows adjacent to high-intensity agricultural ...

Local extinction of Southern California mountain lions possible within 50 years

Conservation strategies focused on connectivity and coexistence could helpCredit: Johanna Turner Two isolated mountain lion populations in southern California's Santa ...

Honey bee colonies more successful by foraging on non-crop fields

Credit: ARS-USDA TUCSON, ARIZONA, March 20, 2019--Honey bee colonies foraging on land with a strong cover of clover species and ...

Beware of sleeping queens underfoot this spring

Credit: Joe Woodgate Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have discovered a never before reported behaviour of queen bumblebees. ...

The recent spread of coyotes across North America did not doom deer populations

Credit: Dr. Aimee P. Rockhill (Western Carolina University) and Dr. Christopher S. DePerno (North Carolina State University) Coyotes eat deer, ...

Study finds natural selection favors cheaters

UC Riverside research focused on interaction between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and their hostsCredit: Sachs lab, UC Riverside Mutualisms, which are interactions ...

‘Insectageddon’ is ‘alarmist by bad design’: Scientists point out the study’s major flaws

Earlier this year, a research article triggered a media frenzy by predicting that as a result of an ongoing rapid ...

Across North America and the Atlantic, an enormous migration journey for a tiny songbird

UMass Amherst, Canadian researchers identify blackpoll warbler migration routesCredit: UMass Amherst/University of Guelph AMHERST, Mass. - Blackpoll warblers that breed ...

New model IDs primate species with potential to spread Zika in the Americas