Tag: Ecology/Environment

Cichlid fishes, able to respond rapidly to environmental change, offer good modelCredit: UMass Amherst/Albertson lab A team of biologists led ...

Stirling experts lead research into impact of climate change on rainforest elephants

Stirling and Gabonese experts lead research into impact of climate change on rainforest elephantsCredit: University of Stirling Experts from the ...

Caribbean islands face loss of protection and biodiversity as seagrass loses terrain

Credit: Rebecca James Tropical islands have an important ally when it comes to battling storms and sea-level rise: seagrass. During ...

Scientists discover why tarantulas come in vivid blues and greens

Researchers from Yale-NUS College and Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that tarantulas have the ability to see in colour, contrary ...

Searching together: A lesson from rats

Concentrate on your own task but also pay attention to others -- this is the key rule for success, at ...

Born to be wild: Fungal highways let bacteria travel in exchange for thiamine

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find a mutualistic growth mechanism between a filamentous fungus and a bacterium that allows ...

5G wireless may lead to inaccurate weather forecasts

Rutgers study is the first to model impact of 5G radiation "leakage" on forecastingCredit: Mohammad Yousefvand Upcoming 5G wireless networks ...

Provide shady spots to protect butterflies from climate change, say scientists

Credit: Andrew Bladon Researchers have discovered significant variations in the ability of different UK butterfly species to maintain a suitable ...

Amazonia racing toward tipping point, fueled by unregulated fires

Invaluable rainforests could become become savannaCredit: Florida Institute of Technology Amazonia is closer to a catastrophic ecological tipping point than ...

URI grad student finds PFAS in seabirds from Narragansett Bay, Massachusetts Bay, Cape Fear

Credit: (Photo courtesy of Anna Robuck) KINGSTON, R.I. - Sept.23, 2020 - Evidence continues to accumulate about human and wildlife ...

Halt post-disturbance logging in forests

Credit: (Photo: Simon Thorn / University of Wuerzburg) Storms, fires, bark beetles: Many forests around the world are increasingly affected ...

Generational shifts help migratory bats keep pace with global warming

Credit: Anton Vlaschenko Many animal species are currently changing their distribution range owing to global warming. The underlying mechanisms are ...

Study shows impact of climate change on Neotropical freshwater ecosystems