Tag: Ecology/Environment

The first-ever research on mantis shrimp navigation, by UMBC's Rickesh Patel, finds they use the sun, polarized light patterns, and ...

Credit: Luiz G. Denardin Worldwide, flooded rice cultivation has degraded soil quality, reducing rice yield and requiring intense use of ...

Hormonal changes caused by motorboat noise cause clownfish to hide, skip meals and attack their neighbors -- putting damselfish in ...

Researchers show that the wallflower is an excellent model plant for discovering new cardenolides that could be used to treat ...

Social distancing works for newts, tooCredit: Image by T. Amacker. KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture's ...

Credit: Umberto Lombardo The earliest human inhabitants of the Amazon created thousands of artificial forest islands as they tamed wild ...

What did the Burrard Inlet look like in the past, compared to how it is now?Credit: Fanny Couture What did ...

Credit: Marcelo H. Cassini, PhD In most animals, females are larger than males, but in most mammals, males are larger ...

Four decades of research provide some answersCredit: Phil Stouffer The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), located near Manaus, ...

Credit: Christopher J. Malyniuk Chemotherapeutic drugs, also known as antineoplastic agents, that are prescribed to treat a range of cancer ...

The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spilloverCredit: Christine K. Johnson, UC Davis As COVID-19 spreads across ...

Credit: Laura Bloomfield Viruses that jump from animals to people, like the one responsible for COVID-19, will likely become more ...

Credit: F. Christopher Peritore-Galve Bacterial canker of tomato is a disease that leads to wilt, cankers, and eventually death. The ...

Study provides crucial step to assess climate change impacts on imperiled turtle speciesCredit: Dana Ralph Unlike humans, sea turtles and ...

Credit: Marine Conservation Society Beaches in or near England's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have the same levels of litter as ...

Credit: Cesar Valencia Texas A&M University scientists found that a surprising number of fungi naturally associated with cultivated cotton were ...

Stream insects and the bankside spiders that eat them carry potentially toxic selenium runoff from water to landCredit: Photo by ...

Captive apes' microbiomes more similar to some humans' than to wild apes'Credit: GOUALOUGO TRIANGLE APE PROJECT Apes in U.S. zoos ...

As the human race continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have found that the planet's insects are also facing ...

Credit: Rod Waddington/Flickr UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The risk of transmitting the virus PPRV, which produces a highly infectious and ...