Polarstern expedition investigates massive calved iceberg
Experts explore for the first time life on the seafloor in a region formerly covered by thick iceCredit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Artificial light affects plant pollination even during the daytime
Credit: UZH/Agroscope The use of artificial light at night around the world has increased enormously in recent years, causing adverse ...
Boosting insect diversity may provide more consistent crop pollination services
First global study of pollinator service stability over time finds fewer fluctuations in diverse communitiesCredit: Deepa Senapathi / University of ...
Extinct Caribbean bird’s closest relatives hail from Africa, South Pacific
Credit: Jeff Gage/Florida Museum of Natural History GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- In a genetic surprise, ancient DNA shows the closest family ...
Going back in time restores decades of quiet corn drama
Credit: Alonso Favela, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Corn didn't start out as the powerhouse crop it is today. ...
Deforestation taking a heavy toll on international bird haven
Credit: Pablo Negret An analysis has found deforestation is severely affecting forest bird species in Colombia, home to the greatest ...
When ‘eradicated’ species bounce back with a vengeance
Lessons from a failed experiment mark new way forwardCredit: Edwin Grosholz, UC Davis Some invasive species targeted for total eradication ...
Of mice and men and their different tolerance to pathogens
A mouse intestine-on-chip discovery platform enables the modeling of host-microbiome relations, infectious disease modeling, and the identification of tolerance-promoting speciesCredit: ...
New probe set unravels evolutionary history of second-most diverse group of land plants
Credit: Photos by Emily Sessa. In 2016, a collaborative group of research and education specialists received funding from the National ...
SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to humans without much change
Credit: MacLean OA, et al. (2021), Natural selection in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in bats created a generalist virus and ...
Birds learn to avoid flashy, hard-to-catch butterflies and their lookalikes
Credit: Jeff Gage/Florida Museum of Natural History GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The showy colors of some butterflies could advertise their speed ...
Fossilized feeding frenzy
47 million year old fly found with a full bellyCredit: © Senckenberg It was not the fly itself that caught ...
Bacterial competition in situations of food scarcity prevents survival of mutants
Study compares the phenomenon observed in the species E. coli to a "tragedy of the commons", in which individual interests ...
In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
By enriching soils, they benefit forest recovery and carbon storageCredit: Credit: Sarah Batterman. A new study, published this week in ...
NYITCOM researcher wins prestigious NSF CAREER grant
Research project aims to improve understanding of cranial birth defectsCredit: Akinobu Watanabe Old Westbury, NY--Akinobu "Aki" Watanabe, Ph.D., assistant professor ...
Bioaccumulation of phased-out fire retardants is slowly declining in bald eagles
Credit: Jim Campbell-Spickler Research published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry shows that the presence of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in ...
Warming climate slows tropical birds’ population growth rates
30-year study in Tanzania shows temperature-linked population declines in species important to forestsCredit: Monte Neate-Clegg The mountain forests of Tanzania ...
Ecosystem restoration is a pressing issue in fragmented rainforest
Credit: Photo: Aircraft NERC, landscape Benjamin Blonder. Image processing Jani Närhi In light of the United Nations (UN) declaration that ...
Two species and a single name: ‘Double identity’ revealed in a venomous banana spider
Credit: N. Hazzi Spiders from the genus Phoneutria - also known as banana spiders - are considered aggressive and among ...
Citizen scientists help expose presence of invasive Asian bamboo longhorn beetle in Europe
Credit: Stephen Rolls A worryingly high number of Asian bamboo longhorn beetles (Chlorophorus annularis) turn out to have been emerging ...