Tag: Biodiversity

Insect pollination is as important to Arctic plants as it is to plants further south. When flowers abound, the plants ...

A team of scientists has completed one of the largest genetic analysis ever done of any agricultural crop to find ...

Credit: James Wheeler Ongoing land clearing for agriculture, mining and urbanisation is isolating and disconnecting Earth's protected natural areas from ...

Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpää Through a unique research collaboration, researchers at the University of Helsinki have exposed major changes taking place ...

Research team led by the University of Göttingen investigates influence of 'greening measures' on pollinatorsCredit: Nicole Beyer About one third ...

Credit: CDC Interferon (IFN) responses are one of the first defenses the body mounts against viral infections, and research has ...

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba and Kobe University find that the sustained, long-term continuity of grasslands increases plant species ...

Described by the 'father of zoogeography' and co-author of the theories of evolution and natural selection, the species hasn't been ...

Researchers isolated eight novel polyphenols from the rarest type of propolis; two of them were found to inhibit tumor cell ...

Study of Costa Rican rainforest shows national parks are more resilient than expectedCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 9, ...

Giant viruses, like the recently discovered medusavirus, may hold the key to deciphering the evolutionary mystery of the eukaryotic nucleusCredit: ...

Credit: Tobias Andermann Human impact can explain ninety-six percent of all mammal species extinctions of the last hundred thousand years, ...

Credit: Dr Roman V. Yakovlev An isolated population of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly species: the Arctic Apollo (Parnassius arcticus), turned ...

Professor Teja Tscharntke at University of Göttingen receives British Ecological Society's March AwardCredit: University of Göttingen The agroecologist, Professor Teja ...