Engineers Model Why Easter Island Moai Fall Face-Down First
A new closed-form structural model shows that Easter Island moai fitted with pukao topknots are weakest in the frontal direction, ...
Tag: Conservation
Bigger Rodents Eat a Wider Menu in Tanzania’s Mount Rungwe Forest
A study of four rodent species in Tanzania's Mount Rungwe Forest finds that larger-bodied rodents have broader dietary niches, with ...
Gut Microbiomes Diverge Between Wild and Semi-Captive Przewalski’s Gazelles Across Age Stages
A new sequencing study finds that habitat and age jointly shape the gut microbiota of endangered Przewalski's gazelles, with wild ...
Captivity reshapes gut microbiome and antibiotic resistance genes in oriental pied hornbills, study finds
A shotgun metagenomic study finds that zoo-housed and rescue-rehabilitated Oriental Pied Hornbills have lower gut microbial diversity and altered antibiotic ...
New web platform gathers Brazil’s vertebrate genomic data in one place
GenRefBR is a new web platform that centralizes searchable genomic data on Brazilian vertebrates, from mitochondrial markers to nuclear assemblies.
New framework makes biodiversity visible through cultural heritage landscapes
A new study in Built Heritage presents a four-layer framework for identifying biocultural indicators of biodiversity, applied comparatively to the ...
Four threatened vulture species persist in Ethiopian city, wet season counts surge
Four globally threatened vulture species are living out at least part of their lives in the middle of a fast-growing ...
Ritual, Not Metrics: How Balinese Temple Restoration Governs Material Change
A qualitative study of three Balinese temple restorations finds that ritual procedures, rather than technical assessment alone, authorise dismantling, reuse, ...
Italy’s Oldest National Park Opens Decades of Alpine Vegetation Data to the World
A new database unites 1,203 vegetation plots from five decades of surveys in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy's first national ...
Faecal DNA from Bulgarian cave bats reveals over a thousand prey and parasite species
A new dataset documents 1018 prey and parasite species identified from 113 faecal samples of greater and lesser mouse-eared bats ...
Italy’s Wetland Plants: A 70-Year Review Reveals 1,265 Studies and Big Gaps
A review of 1,265 publications from 1950 to 2022 shows Italian wetland plant research peaked in the 1980s and 1990s, ...
New Warty Newt Species Hidden in Chongqing’s Mountain Streams
A new warty newt species, Paramesotriton chongqingensis, has been described from mountain streams in Chongqing, China, using combined morphological and ...
New freshwater mussel genus and species discovered in Anhui, China
Researchers in China have described Huizhou xietianxiangi, a new genus and species of small freshwater mussel with zigzag shell sculpture, ...
Wild Bee Diversity Survey in Southern French Alps Reveals Critical Conservation Gaps
A four-year survey in the southern French Alps documented 241 wild bee species, highlighting significant knowledge gaps and the presence ...
Agriculture blocks gene flow in fragmented sloth bear populations of India’s Terai
A landscape genetics study finds agriculture is the primary barrier to gene flow among sloth bears in India's fragmented Central ...
Forty mammal species revealed in last refuges of Argentina’s Tandilia grasslands
An updated inventory records 40 mammal species in the highland grasslands of the Tandilia Mountains, including 32 native and eight ...
New Alpine Moss, Rare Stonewort and Long-Lost Lichens Refresh Italy’s Flora Records
A new set of Notulae to the Italian flora documents new and confirmed records of algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens ...
Lisbon museum digitises 5,295 Palaearctic bee records and adds a new species for Portugal
A digitisation project at Lisbon's natural history museum has catalogued 5,295 Palaearctic bee records, revealed a first national record of ...
Botanists complete first full flora of Empoli, revealing heavy alien invasion
A 20-year field survey has produced the first complete vascular flora of Empoli, Tuscany, documenting 757 taxa and an alien ...
SLAM Project – Long-Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in the natural forest of Azores: VII – Long-term arthropod monitoring in Graciosa Island
Sustained SLAM project monitoring on Graciosa Island is documenting the arthropod communities persisting in the Azorean island's last remnant native ...
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