A bucket of water can reveal climate change impacts on marine life in the Arctic
Credit: Morten Tange Olsen Climate changes prompt many important questions. Not least how it affects animals and plants: Do they ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Like plants do: non-classical photosynthesis by earth’s inorganic semiconducting minerals
Study reveals that Earth-abundant minerals convert sunlight into chemical energy, hinting at the evolution of photosynthesis in early bacteriaCredit: Earth ...
Artificial intelligence puts focus on the life of insects
Scientists are combining artificial intelligence and advanced computer technology with biological know how to identify insects with supernatural speed.Credit: Photo ...
Climate change reduces the abundance and diversity of wild bees, study finds
Credit: Kate Anton, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Wild bees are more affected by climate change than by disturbances ...
Researchers find nonnative species in Oahu play greater role in seed dispersal
Credit: Patrick Kelley University of Wyoming researchers headed a study that shows nonnative birds in Oahu, Hawaii, have taken over ...
Scientists discover bizarre new mode of snake locomotion
Credit: Bjorn Lardner, United States Geological Survey A team of researchers from Colorado State University and the University of Cincinnati ...
TU Graz identifies bacterium that protects rice plants against diseases
Bacterium inside the seed can lead to complete resistance to a particular pathogen and is naturally transmitted from one plant ...
Scientists from St. Petersburg University discovered the virus-like particles in Bryozoa
Although viruses have never been reported inside symbiotic bacteria in bryozoans, scientists suggest that this 'matryoshka doll' may have a ...
Bats with white-nose syndrome prefer suboptimal habitats despite the consequences
Credit: Joseph Hoyt of Virginia Tech Since 2006, a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome has caused sharp declines in bat ...
Native biodiversity collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean
Most native species are going locally extinct, while introduced tropical species thriveCredit: © Paolo Albano The coastline of Israel is ...
Harbor porpoises on the decline in the German North Sea
Greater conservation efforts are needed to protect the species, which has been affected by human activities at seaCredit: D. Nachtsheim ...
New work provides insight into the relationship between complexity and diversity
Parts of the planet that are diverse biologically and culturally show even more diversity than you'd expectCredit: (Figure: Hamilton et ...
Low genetic diversity in two manatee species off South America
Study raises the alarm for better conservation actionsCredit: Luna, Beaver, Nourisson et al. Worldwide, marine megafauna are at risk of ...
New bacterial culture methods could result in the discovery of new species
The culture-dependent study allowed to isolate a surprisingly large number of diverse and previously unreported bacterial strains from the Tabernas ...
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