Pollinator-friendly flowers planted along with crops aid bumblebees
UMass Amherst, NC State biologists study risks and benefits associated with floral stripsCredit: Ben Barnhart AMHERST, Mass. - A new ...
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Reptile poaching in Balochistan (Pakistan) is on a decreasing trend but still troublesome
Credit: Rafaqat Masroor Since 2013, following strict enforcement of provincial wildlife legislation in the less studied regions of Asia, the ...
Oyster farming and shorebirds likely can coexist
Scientists find oyster aquaculture has little impact on red knots, three other speciesCredit: Brian Schumm Oyster farming as currently practiced ...
Humpback whales may risk collision with vessels in the Magellan Strait
Credit: J.J. Capella Every summer (November-April), the Magellan Strait in the southwestern part of Chile becomes a popular feeding area ...
University of Guam secures $20 million to expand coral research
Credit: University of Guam The University of Guam has been awarded $20 million to expand its research capabilities on coral ...
‘Pingers’ could save porpoises from fishing nets
Credit: Fishtek Marine Underwater sound devices called "pingers" could be an effective, long-term way to prevent porpoises getting caught in ...
DNA metabarcoding reveals metacommunity dynamics in a threatened boreal wetland
Credit: Donald Baird The ability to accurately detect changes in ecosystem biodiversity caused by human activity has long challenged environmental ...
The butterfly effect: Climate change could cause decline of some alpine butterfly species
Study examines downstream effects of climate change on alpine butterfly populations in North AmericaCredit: Alessandro Filazzola. The long-term effects of ...
Leap forward in the discovery and development of new antibiotics
New insights represent a major step forward in the formation of a new glycopeptide antibiotic to fight superbugsCredit: Max Cryle ...
DNA surprises surfacing in the Atlantic: Species far from their usual southern homes
DNA scientists sampling the New Jersey shore bottle the changing ranges of marine life predicted a decade ago; Fishing DNA from seawater: a ...
Breaking down wood decomposition by fungi
New study reveals a trait-based understanding of fungal decomposition abilitiesCredit: Amy Zanne SUMMARYThrough a combination of lab and field experiments, ...
Belt and Road’s financiers fall short on biodiversity
Credit: The University of Queensland Most financiers of international infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), are falling short ...
New test identifies lobster hybrids
Credit: Charlie Ellis Scientists have developed a test that can identify hybrids resulting from crossbreeding between European and American lobsters. ...
Clemson scientist receives $455K NSF grant to study how flowers adapt to heat and cold
Matthew Koski, an assistant professor at Clemson, will advance his research with a 3-year, $455,000 grant from the National Science ...
Outsmarting the enemy: Treefrogs rely on illusions to find a mate without being eaten
Credit: Purdue University photo/Henry Legett Treefrogs become easy targets for predators and parasites when they send mating calls, but they're ...
Lyin’ eyes: Butterfly, moth eyespots may look the same, but likely evolved separately
Credit: Andrei Sourakov/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The iconic eyespots that some moths and butterflies use to ward off predators ...
Minimum energy requirements for microbial communities to live predicted
Credit: University of Warwick A microbial community is a complex, dynamic system composed of hundreds of species and their interactions, ...
Yellow-legged gull adapts its annual lifecycle to human activities to get food
Opportunist species with great spread abilitiesCredit: Isabel Afán (EBD-CSIC) The yellow-legged gull has a high ability to adapt to human ...
IAVS and Pensoft launch a gold OA journal on vegetation classification on ARPHA platform
Credit: Sebastián Zeballo Last summer, the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) took the decision to launch a gold open-access ...
Predators help prey adapt to an uncertain future
Credit: Matthew Barbour / UZH What effect does extinction of species have on the evolution of surviving species? Evolutionary biologists ...
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