Volcanic Belt of Mexico Reveals Hidden Rules Shaping Amphibian Diversity
A new study of Mexico's Transmexican Volcanic Belt shows that environmental heterogeneity, historical climate shifts, and soil temperature drive striking ...
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Blind, Eyeless Snail from Iranian Spring Reveals Hidden Underground World
A newly described eyeless, translucent snail from a seasonal spring in Iran represents a new genus closely related to European ...
Smart Cattle Grazing Turns Rangelands Into Monarch Butterfly Strongholds
A two-year field experiment in North Dakota shows that a modified twice-over rest-rotation grazing strategy boosts milkweed and monarch abundance ...
Dogs, Crops and Disease: Inside the Amazon’s Hidden Human–Wildlife Conflict
A survey of 155 households in Peru's Corosha community reveals that domestic dogs account for most wildlife predation events, while ...
Arid Andean Valley Reveals Shifting Hummingbird Network Built Around One Shrub
A six-month study in an arid Peruvian valley documented 349 plant-hummingbird interactions, revealing a temporally shifting network dominated by Tecoma ...
Simulated sharks reveal why basking giants gather off Ireland
A new individual-based model reproduces 36 years of basking shark sightings around Ireland's Inishowen Peninsula, showing that aggregations emerge only ...
Ancient Salmon DNA From a Spanish Cave Rewrites 18,000 Years of Atlantic Salmon History
Genomes recovered from 18,000-year-old salmon vertebrae in a Spanish cave reveal that ancient Iberian salmon were genetically closer to British ...
Genome Notes at Scale: Tree of Life Aims for 200 Publications a Month
The Wellcome Sanger Institute's Tree of Life programme will scale genome note publication from about 30 to 200 per month ...
Ponds With Richer Life Work Harder: Massive European Survey Links Biodiversity to Healthier Ecosystems
A survey of 206 European ponds shows that richer aquatic biodiversity strongly boosts ecosystem multifunctionality, while nutrient pollution from intensive ...
South African Invader Swallows Moroccan Dunes, Landmark Survey Warns
A comprehensive survey of Morocco's Haouzia Bay dunes reveals severely depauperate native flora and near-total domination by the invasive South ...
Journal Opens Special Issue on Evolutionary Mechanisms Shaping Biodiversity
The open-access journal Biological Diversity has launched a call for papers for a special issue on the evolutionary mechanisms that ...
Shark Camera Catches First-Ever Blue Shark Mating Attempt in European Waters
The first visual documentation of putative mating behavior in blue sharks, recorded off the Basque coast of Spain alongside four ...
New Mapping Tool Finds Safe Havens Where Native Species Can Outrun Climate Change and Invaders
Researchers have developed a refugia habitat metric that combines ecological niche models for native and invasive species to pinpoint where ...
Genetic Sleuthing Confirms the Mysterious Tibetan Brown Bear Roams Nepal’s High Deserts
The first genetic confirmation of the Tibetan brown bear in Nepal resolves a long-standing subspecies mystery and provides a critical ...
Britain’s Hedgehogs Have Collapsed in the Countryside While Urban Populations Hold On
A landmark analysis of five national monitoring schemes reveals rural hedgehog numbers in Britain have fallen by up to 70 ...
Rare Species May Be Safer Than They Look: Dispersal Diversity Shields Forests From Extinction
A statistical-physics framework applied to three forest censuses shows that dispersal diversity, rather than abundance alone, buffers species against competitive ...
Thousands of Amateur Photos Weave a Global Map of Who Eats Whom
A new citizen science project called Who Eats Whom has turned thousands of iNaturalist photographs into a searchable global food ...
What Surrounds the Rice Field Matters More Than What Happens Inside It
A two-year study of rain-fed rice fields in Guinea-Bissau finds that the structure of the surrounding landscape, not local field ...
Monoculture Farms Are Silently Cutting Off West Africa’s Guinea Baboons
A landmark landscape genetics study of 243 Guinea baboons reveals that intensive monoculture farming severs gene flow across West Africa, ...
New Open-Access Journal PLOS Ecosystems Aims to Unite Science Against the Biodiversity Crisis
The new open-access journal PLOS Ecosystems launches with an editorial arguing that fragmented publishing has hindered the response to the ...
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