Tag: Conservation

A survey of 868 ethologists and behavioural ecologists reveals that logistics rarely explain why birds and mammals dominate research. Instead, ...

A new dataset of nearly 50,000 stonefly records compiled from 170 years of museum specimens and fieldwork reveals widespread species ...

Deep in the dry, rocky hills of northern Greece and south-western Bulgaria, a large bee has been quietly going about ...

A new study of Abies yuanbaoshanensis reveals that elevation-driven shifts in soil water, phosphorus, and microbial life-history strategies jointly determine ...

A newly discovered second Austrian population of the giant centipede Scolopendra cingulata shows that the species' northern refugial populations stem ...

A three-year survey on Ko Pha-ngan documents 21 snake species, including a Vulnerable king cobra, a Near Threatened rat snake ...

A case study from Tampico, Mexico, details a Grade 4 non-fatal crocodile attack on a 54-year-old man and the coordinated ...

Drone observations off Oregon suggest gray whale calves imitate their mothers' foraging tactics, providing the strongest evidence yet of social ...

Fossil pollen from a wetland core in the Friuli Venezia Giulia plain shows the cold-adapted twinflower Linnaea borealis survived in ...

The first Nathusius' pipistrelle ever recorded in Central Asia was caught during autumn migration in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan, ...

New fieldwork across Panama has documented dozens of records for four rarely seen aquatic snakes, including the first sighting of ...

A five-year survey of 1,098 plots in Gangwon-do's pure Mongolian oak stands has documented 594 vascular plant taxa, including 32 ...

Camera traps in Sarawak's proposed Lundu Mangrove Protected Forest show the endangered flat-headed cat strongly prefers elevated nibong palm habitat ...

Tuberculosis still kills more people than almost any other single infectious agent, and Indonesia sits at the center of the ...

Tongkat ali, the twisted-rooted Malaysian herb whose name literally means "Ali's walking stick," has been prized for centuries as a ...

A comprehensive survey of Philippine giant clams reveals that host species identity, not environmental conditions, primarily shapes their algal symbiont ...

Bycatch from a Swiss beetle monitoring project has yielded rare wasps, threatened bees, and spiders never before recorded in eastern ...

The scale of the new meta-analysis is notable in a field where individual studies often examine only a handful of ...

A comprehensive taxonomic revision reveals that the widespread horned frog Proceratophrys boiei is actually three distinct species, with two long-buried ...

A fecal survey in Nepal's Lapchi Valley found gastrointestinal parasites in nearly 95 percent of samples from endangered Himalayan musk ...