New books present the PhyloCode, an evolution-based system for naming organisms
Credit: CRC Press GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Move over, Linnaeus: There's a new way of naming organisms. Scientists have formalized an ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Threats to global food security from emerging fungal crop pathogens
Credit: University of Exeter Amongst the world's most challenging problems is the need to feed an ever-growing global population sustainably. ...
‘Social distancing’ saves frogs: New approach to identify individual frogs noninvasively
Credit: Naitik Patel Globally, 41% amphibian species are regarded as threatened with extinction. However, when it comes to the case ...
Protected areas worldwide at risk of invasive species
Credit: Professor Tim Blackburn, UCL Protected areas across the globe are effectively keeping invasive animals at bay, but the large ...
Climate change has degraded productivity of shelf sea food webs
Credit: Claire Widdicombe A shortage of summer nutrients as a result of our changing climate has contributed to a 50% ...
Environmental damage from fog reduction is observable from outer space, find hydrologists
IUPUI-led study is the first to find satellite data can detect fog's impact on vegetation levels under climate changeCredit: Image ...
When determining sex, exceptions are the rule
Credit: Jacelyn Shu / Genome Biology and Evolution For nearly a century, biologists have modeled the evolution of sex chromosomes--the ...
Conserving biodiverse ‘slow lanes’ in a rapidly changing world
UMass Amherst ecologist and team synthesize climate change refugia science developments to dateCredit: UMass Amherst/Toni Lyn Morelli The notion of ...
Ten years of ecosystem services matrix: Review of a (r)evolution
Credit: Pensoft In recent years, the concept of Ecosystem Services (ES): the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, such as pollination ...
Pensoft to publish the paleontology and geobiology journal Zitteliana on behalf of SNSB
Credit: Senckenberg, SNSB and Pensoft Following the recent contract between the State Natural History Collection of Bavaria (Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen ...
In chimpanzees, females contribute to the protection of the territory
Female chimpanzees are also important in helping to win and keep a territoryCredit: Liran Samuni In many social species, including ...
Airborne science discovers complex geomorphic controls on Bornean forests
Credit: Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. Tropical forests contain some of the most biodiverse ...
Bumblebees speed up flowering
Credit: Photograph: Hannier Pulido / ETH Zurich Spring has sprung earlier than ever before this year, accompanied by temperatures more ...
The wildlife trade encompasses all major branches of the biological tree of life
Credit: Marco Antonio de Freitas. Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of ...
Why are we still failing to stop deforestation?
Credit: Data from the Global Forest Watch While national and international efforts to reverse the trend of deforestation have multiplied ...
Bristol scientists see through glass frogs’ translucent camouflage
Credit: Dr James Barnett Glass frogs are well known for their see-through skin but, until now, the reason for this ...
Marine species are outpacing terrestrial species in the race against global warming
Credit: © Gaël Grenouillet Global warming is causing species to search for more temperate environments in which to migrate to, ...
A new Critically Endangered frog named after ‘the man from the floodplain full of frogs’
Credit: Gonçalo M. Rosa A new species proposed to be classified as Critically Endangered of miniaturised stump-toed frog of the ...
Scientists identify a temperature tipping point for tropical forests
Credit: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute photo All living things have tipping points: points of no return, beyond which they cannot ...
Peculiar behavior of the beetle Toramus larvae
How and why do they carry their exuviae?Credit: The Coleopterists Society The beetles of family Erotylidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) are morphologically ...
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