Tag: Biodiversity

Credit: Mr. Clodoaldo Lopes de Assis In a recent paper in the open-access journal Neotropical Biology and Conservation, a group ...

Credit: Deline, et. al. A new study by an international team of scientists has revealed the developmental and evolutionary mechanisms ...

Credit: © Monterey Bay Aquarium, photo by Jessica Fujii Researchers are using a kind of machine learning known as sentiment ...

UC biologists create a novel device to determine how well animals discern colorCredit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative Services Fiddler crabs have ...

Credit: Chelsey Ritner In the neotropical forest of Barro Colorado Island in Panama, an unusual bee hatched: half male and ...

Credit: Satoe Kasahara Ph.D., Suwa Hydrobiological Station, Faculty of Science, and Institute of Mountain Science, Shinshu University The next time ...

Credit: Kaija Klauder/University of Washington In many parts of the world, there is an imbalance in the food chain. Without ...

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers The environmental effects of agriculture and food are hotly debated. But the most widely used method of ...

Credit: Robert Scotland A major advance in revealing the unknown plant diversity on planet Earth is made with a new ...

Credit: Virginia Tech Since 2005, millions of bats have perished from white-nose syndrome, a disease caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus ...

New tool pinpoints conservation targetsCredit: Nathan Bendik, City of Austin KNOXVILLE --The best bargains for conserving some of the world's ...

Credit: Michelle Sauther In her 30 years working as a researcher in Madagascar, CU Boulder Anthropology Professor Michelle Sauther has ...

Credit: Dr. Mohammad Naserifard A unique rock carving found in the Teymareh rock art site (Khomein county) in Central Iran ...

Credit: Jedediah Brodie MISSOULA - Jedediah Brodie has spent a career tromping around tropical rainforests, conducting on-the-ground research in some ...

International team, UMass Amherst ecologist, tested new mammal survey methodCredit: UMass Amherst/Joseph Drake AMHERST, Mass. - Ecologists in England and ...

Credit: Doris Lagos-Kutz, USDA-ARS and University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Like most invasive species, when the soybean aphid arrived ...

Removing natural habitat can increase growers' costs up to 76% with no detectable effect on food safetyCredit: Elissa Olimpi/UC Davis ...

Researchers discover the Sulawesi hairy-tailed shrewCredit: Kevin Rowe, Museums Victoria. Researchers at Louisiana State University have discovered a new species ...

Credit: Petri Pellikka Changes to the vegetation cover of land surfaces constitutes the biggest cause of increasing carbon dioxide emissions ...

Credit: Vivian Wauters Under our feet, in the soil, is a wealth of microbial activity. Just like humans have different ...