As plant/animal diversity wanes, is microbial life changing too? A perilously ‘profound Ignorance’
The unknown direction and pace of change in microbial -- including viral -- biodiversity may have deep consequences for all ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Common plants and pollinators act as anchors for ecosystems
Credit: Julian Resasco The next time you go for a hike, take an extra moment to appreciate the seemingly ordinary ...
New amphibious centipede species discovered in Okinawa and Taiwan
Godly proportions for rare jade Scolopendra named after local gods, one of the largest arthropods in JapanCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University ...
Scientists call for climate projections as part of more robust biodiversity conservation
Research in the Peruvian Andes highlights critical climate threats to montane forests and urges for current conservation plans to take ...
Microorganisms on the Rio Grande Rise are a basis for life and a possible origin of metals
Researchers conducted the first large-scale survey of the microbiota present in the seamount's ferromanganese crusts, describing bacteria and archaea involved ...
Forest elephants are now critically endangered – here’s how to count them
Study compared different methodologies using dung, DNA analysis, and camera trapsCredit: WCS Gabon LIBREVILLE, Gabon (April 15 2021) - A ...
Saving the planet, and ourselves
A philosopher for our troubled times: Brian MedlinCredit: Flinders University 2020 began with Australia ablaze, forests from Brazil to Siberia ...
Novak Djokovic now has a tiny new snail species named after him
Credit: Jozef Grego Do freshwater snails make good tennis players? One of them certainly has the name for it. Enter ...
More than $700,000 from CIHR to study the bacteria that causes meningitis
Understanding the mechanism of pathogenesis of nasopharyngeal bacteria could lead to innovative treatment optionsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) Professor Frédéric Veyrier ...
How can we conserve Seychelles giant trevallies?
Revealing where and why giant trevally roam as they grow helps us understand how to better protect themCredit: Photo © ...
Satellite map of human pressure on land provides insight on sustainable development
Credit: Joe Mendoza/Colorado State University The coronavirus pandemic has led researchers to switch gears or temporarily abandon projects due to ...
Birds take tRNA efficiency to new heights
Credit: Claudia Kutter Birds have been shaped by evolution in many ways that have made them distinct from their vertebrate ...
Two research projects to be receive funds from Samsung Science & Technology Foundation
Credit: DGIST DGIST announced that Prof. June.M. Kwak, and Prof. Chang-Hee Cho are selected for the research funding program sponsored ...
Cascading effects of noise on plants persist over long periods and after noise is removed
A first-of-its kind study shows decreased seedlings and saplings years after the removal of noise pollutionCredit: Photo by Sarah Termondt ...
Poop core records 4,300 years of bat diet and environment
An inaccessible cave preserved clues to Jamaica's climate past in the sedimentary layers of bat guanoCredit: Sherri and Brock Fenton ...
Pandemic-inspired discoveries: New insect species from Kosovo named after the Coronavirus
Credit: Halil Ibrahimi While the new Coronavirus will, hopefully, be effectively controlled sooner rather than later, its latest namesake is ...
Conservationists may be unintentionally spreading pathogens between threatened animal populations
Credit: David Aldridge Moving endangered species to new locations is often used as part of species conservation strategies, and can ...
Shift in diet allowed gray wolves to survive ice-age extinction
Credit: Julius Csotonyi April12, 2021 - Gray wolves are among the largest predators to have survived the extinction at the ...
A discovery that “literally changes the textbook”
MSU's expertise in fish biology, genetics helping researchers rewrite evolutionary history and shape future health studiesCredit: Reprinted with permission from ...
Regional habitat differences identified for threatened piping plovers on Atlantic coast
Findings can help enhance shorebird species' protection, recoveryCredit: Credit: Susan Haig, USGS Piping plovers, charismatic shorebirds that nest and feed ...
