Daytime aardvark sightings are a sign of troubled times
Wits researchers find that aardvarks feeding in the daytime during droughts might be starvingCredit: Nora Weyer/Wits University Aardvarks occur across ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Extreme rainfall events cause top-heavy aquatic food webs
Credit: The Bromeliad Working Group/UBC. An expansive, multi-site ecology study led by UBC has uncovered new insights into the effects ...
Stress testing ‘coral in a box’
Credit: Christian Voolstra Coral death is impacting oceans worldwide as a consequence of climate change. The concern is that corals ...
The story behind a uniquely dark, wetland soil
Credit: Karen Vaughan When it comes to soils, proper identification is key. Identification allows scientists to determine the story behind ...
Strange bedfellows
How butterfly caterpillars sustain their association with cocktail antsCredit: Krushnamegh Kunte The spectacular leaps of gazelles, group living in deer ...
Colony-level genetics predict gentle behavior in Puerto Rican honey bees
Credit: ARS-USDA BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, July 6, 2020--Puerto Rico's population of African-European hybrid honey bees (AHB) are famously known for ...
Plant study challenges tropics’ reputation as site of modern evolutionary innovation
Credit: Miao Sun GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- In a surprise twist, a major group of flowering plants is evolving twice as ...
Palm trees most abundant in American rainforests
Credit: William J. Baker Characteristics of palm trees differ from those of other tropical trees in many ways. In a ...
UM Bio Station researchers unlock mystery of subterranean stoneflies
Credit: UM photo FLATHEAD LAKE - In a new study published in the scientific journal Ecology, researchers from the University ...
How to bring conservation messaging into wildlife-based tourism
Credit: Joan de la Malla The study states that failing to encourage tourists to do more on behalf of wildlife ...
Light pollution gives invasive cane toads a belly full of grub
Credit: Hirotaka Komine/ TUAT Light pollution is increasingly being recognized as yet another of humanity's many impacts on the rest ...
Researchers from University of Turku have described over 40 new species in 2020
Credit: Photo: Kari Kaunisto It is estimated that 15 million different species live on our planet, but only 2 million ...
Microscope allows gentle, continuous imaging of light-sensitive corals
Credit: Loretta Roberson WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Corals are "part animal, part plant, and part rock - and difficult to ...
Research reveals fishing pressures affect tropical and temperate reefs differentl
Credit: Elizabeth Madin, University of Hawai'i In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers ...
Researchers look for answers as to why western bumblebees are declining
Credit: Christy Bell A University of Wyoming researcher and her Ph.D. student have spent the last three years studying the ...
New extinct family of giant wombat relatives discovered in Australian desert
Credit: Picture: Peter Schouten The unique remains of a prehistoric, giant wombat-like marsupial - Mukupirna nambensis - that was unearthed ...
Tiny Japanese dinosaur eggs help unscramble Cretaceous ecosystem
University of Tsukuba research reveals a nest of exceptionally small non-avian theropod egg fossils in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, providing a ...
Fancy Aussie bees flew in from Asia
Ecology experts connect species to Asia, AntarcticaCredit: James Dorey, Flinders University Ancestors of a distinctive pollinating bee found across Australia ...
Papers concludes that incentives to afforestation can be harmful to the environment
Credit: Cristian EcheverrÃa "Through a counterfactual analysis, we showed that between 1986 and 2011 the incentives to afforestation in Chile ...
Economic alien plants more likely to go wild
Credit: Mark van Kleunen Humans have cultivated plants outside their native ranges for thousands of years. But as the world ...
