New Striped Shrimp Species from China Was Sold in Aquariums Before Science Named It
A newly described striped freshwater shrimp from Guangxi, China, was already popular in the aquarium trade before scientists formally named ...
Tag: Conservation
Ancient Greek Oak Survived a Megafire – Its Leaves Now Tell Scientists How
A first quantitative leaf morphometric study of Greece's only endemic oak reveals stable leaf shape but striking size differences across ...
Mexican Mud Turtles Show Surprising Skill at Dodging Lethal Heat
A field study of three little-known Mexican mud turtles reveals that, although water temperature dominates their body temperature, the reptiles ...
Two Striking New Crab Genera Discovered on Isolated Vietnamese Mountaintops
Freshwater crab surveys in southern Vietnam have revealed two new genera and species, Angiangmon nuicoto and Lamdongmon tanhlinhensis, each restricted ...
The Amazon’s ‘Front Yard’ Still Hums to a Rainforest Tune
A two-decade survey of the heavily deforested Bragantina region east of Belém reveals that its bird community still clusters with ...
Forty Years of Projeto Lontra: How Otters Became Guardians of Brazil’s Estuaries
The neotropical otter, Lontra longicaudis, occupies a peculiar position in the ecology of Latin American coastal and freshwater systems. Unlike ...
Ears in the rainforest: Autonomous recorders and human surveys team up to count tropical frogs
A first-of-its-kind study in Northeast India shows that autonomous acoustic recorders and human surveys each detect different frog species in ...
Why the average organism is misleading ecologists about global change
Ecologists call for a paradigm shift that treats individual organisms, rather than species averages, as the fundamental agents of global ...
New orange-spotted killifish discovered in Brazilian Amazon
A vividly colored new killifish species, Laimosemion laranja, has been discovered in the Rio Cajari drainage of the Brazilian Amazon ...
Roads Cut Wildlife Numbers by Nearly a Third, Landmark Meta-Analysis Finds
A meta-analysis of 643 effects from 160 studies finds road proximity is associated with roughly 32 percent lower wildlife outcomes, ...
Two Decades of Conservation Agriculture Rebuild Soil Structure and Double Surface Carbon in Mediterranean Farmland
A 20-year California field experiment shows that reduced tillage combined with cover crops more than doubles aggregate stability, doubles surface ...
Hidden mountain toad: new spiny species discovered in Sichuan’s Hengduan streams
Researchers have described a new toothed toad species, Oreolalax lizipingensis, from high-elevation streams in Sichuan, China, using genetic, morphological and ...
Brown Trout Shift Their Feeding Clock to Survive a Warming World
A new individual-based modeling study shows that brown trout can shift their circadian foraging patterns in response to warming and ...
New limestone-loving horned toad species discovered in China’s karst hills
A new limestone-dwelling horned toad, Boulenophrys calciphila, has been discovered in the karst hills of northern Guangdong, China, highlighting how ...
Two New Beetle Species Emerge from Collapsed Iron Formation Cave in Brazil
Two newly described cave beetles from Brazil highlight the hidden biodiversity of threatened Iron Formation caves, one of which has ...
Rare Himalayan Macaques Confirmed as Stable Residents of Xizang’s Forests
A systematic camera-trap and transect survey in Xizang has confirmed stable, reproducing populations of the Arunachal macaque and the white-cheeked ...
Rabbits, Not Tapirs, Raid Honduran Cassava Fields, Camera Traps Reveal
Camera traps with motion-activated lights in eastern Honduras revealed that rabbits, not the locally blamed tapirs, pacas, or armadillos, were ...
Tortoise Shells Tell a 15-Year Story of Fires, Roads and Rising Predators
A 15-year study in Serbia shows shell damage in eastern Hermann's tortoises soaring as wildfires, traffic and predators intensify.
Striking New Land Snail from Yunnan’s Karst Forests Turns Out to Be an Entirely New Genus
A tree-dwelling land snail discovered on a karst mountain in Yunnan Province, China, has been described as a new genus ...
AI Could Predict How Nature Changes, If Ecologists Learn to Read Organisms’ Senses
Researchers propose combining deep learning with organism-based ecology and new sensory instruments to build AI models capable of forecasting how ...
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