A future ocean that is too warm for corals might have half as many fish species
Credit: Davide Seveso Predicting the potential effects of coral loss on fish communities globally is a fundamental task, especially considering ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Parasites manipulate praying mantis’s polarized-light perception, causing it to jump into water
Researchers have revealed that praying mantis (mantids) infected with parasitic hairworms are attracted to horizontally polarized light that is strongly ...
Air pollution from wildfires impacts ability to observe birds
As smoky air becomes more common during Washington's wildfire season, many wildlife enthusiasts wonder: What happens to the birds? Few ...
How we measure biodiversity can have profound impacts on land-use
The world's human population is expanding, which means even more agricultural land will be needed to provide food for this ...
Unusual prey: Spiders eating snakes
There are spiders that eat snakes; observations of snake-eating spiders have been reported around the world. Two researchers from Basel ...
New tools for pandemic prevention research: DNA sequencing from water and leech
In a new scientific investigation headed by the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), water from African ...
A new site for banana-related research
The Alliance-managed website MusaNet collects and shares global resources on banana (Musa) across the whole value chain - from collecting ...
These sea anemones have a diverse diet. And they eat ants
A study describes the gut contents of giant plumose anemones off the coast of the state of Washington BUFFALO, N.Y. ...
The origins of farming insects
Ambrosia fungi cultivated by beetles for more than 100 million years A beetle bores a tree trunk to build a ...
Bird migration takes plants in wrong direction to cope with climate change
Migratory birds carry most seeds in the wrong direction to help plants cope with climate change, new research shows. The ...
We must transform the food system to achieve climate and sustainable development goals
A revolutionary approach to nourishing 10 billion people on a hotter planet without destroying the ecosystems on which we all ...
Some seafloor microbes can take the heat: And here’s what they eat
WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- It's cold in the depths of the world's oceans; most of the seafloor is at a ...
Insilico Medicine gets $255 million to boost AI-powered R&D, announces a collaboration
June 22, 2021, New York / Hong Kong -- Insilico Medicine, a global leader in end-to-end artificial intelligence for target ...
Poaching affects behavior of endangered capuchin monkeys in Brazilian biological reserve
Contradicting theories of primatologists, a study led by Brazilian scientists shows that in a habitat with high hunting pressure, the ...
New study on climate change impacts on plants could lead to better conservation strategies
The loss of plant species that are especially vulnerable to climate change might lead to bigger problems than previous studies ...
Dragonflies: Species losses and gains in Germany
Some dragonfly and damselfly species suffer from habitat loss and degradation, while many species benefit from improved water quality and ...
A new rapid assessment to promote climate-informed conservation and nature-based solutions
Taking lessons learned from a decade of funding over 100 adaptation initiatives in conservation through the WCS Climate Adaptation Fund, ...
Passive rewilding can rapidly expand UK woodland at no cost
Long-term study finds natural regeneration could make significant contribution to tree planting targets -- with jays playing a leading role ...
New beetle-dwelling roundworm species discovered in Japan
Cryptaphelenchus abietis, a new nematode species isolated from bark beetles that emerged from a dead log in Nagano, Japan, may ...
Parrot talk
During flock encounters, a single vocal interaction seems to be sufficient for making the decision of whether to recruit an ...
