Tag: Biodiversity

Researchers have found evidence for a vertically inherited symbiosis between the Cape geophyte genus, Oxalis, and the nitrogen-fixing bacterial genus ...

Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU ...

Noninvasive scat sampling could strengthen reptile conservationCredit: Mike Westphal, Bureau of Land Management Detection dogs trained to sniff out the ...

Credit: Levi Stroud/U-M College of LSA. ANN ARBOR--University of Michigan ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer have studied Latin American ...

Credit: Chao-Tsung Chen While monitoring of cryptic and elusive tiny creatures, such as pygmy seahorses that measure only 13 to ...

Credit: Elijah Rinaldi More than 150 years ago, Charles Darwin's fascination with genetics and domestication catapulted the scientific world into ...

New study now published in the journal GeologyCredit: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen They were ...

Credit: Picture: V. Baranov Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that the incidence of midge and fly larvae ...

Polar scientists to share how region is responding to rapid warmingCredit: United States Antarctic Program KINGSTON, R.I., - October 25, ...

Credit: Kaitlyn Strickfaden, University of Montana research associate MISSOULA - Research led by a University of Montana undergraduate student to ...

Antibiotic treatment can disrupt the gut microbiome at the strain level, with changes lasting as long as 6 monthsCredit: UAB ...

Credit: University of Exeter Fish may be more tolerant than previously thought to periods of low oxygen in the oceans, ...

Credit: L. Candisani/Courtesy Insituto Aqualie A population of humpback whales in the South Atlantic has rebounded from the brink of ...

Credit: Hector Guzman/STRI Pax, Latin for 'peace' made its way into the scientific name of a new coral discovered off ...

African scientists speak out about global plans to plant trees on their continent in order to fight climate changeCredit: Wits ...

Landmark review highlights recent advances and unresolved questions as part of a New Phytologist special issue celebrating Prof. Spencer Barrett.Credit: ...

Credit: Bavarian Forest National Park The quantity and diversity of plants and animals, especially insects, is decreasing, also in Germany. ...

How disease, warming waters, and ravenous sea urchins combined to kill the kelp and close the red abalone fisheryCredit: Peggy ...

Decades of fieldwork uncover hissing and strike-warning impersonations by toadCredit: Photograph by Colin Tilbury. The first study of a toad ...

Credit: P Kishor (Plazi) At a time when a million species are at risk of extinction, according to a recent ...