Tag: Ecology/Environment

March 10, 2020

Credit: Kristin Winchell / Washington University Faced with a gritty landscape of metal fences, concrete walls and asphalt pavement, city ...

Disease-causing virus manipulates crop plants to favor its vector

March 10, 2020

Credit: Nick Sloff, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The virus that causes barley yellow dwarf, the most widespread disease ...

Wearing clothes could release more microfibres to the environment than washing them

Credit: Francesca De Falco Wearing clothes can release even greater quantities of microfibres to the environment than washing them, new ...

Bulb size matters: Uncovering the evolution of the plant kingdom’s doomsday preppers

Credit: Cody Howard GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Botanist Cody Coyotee Howard compares bulbs to living bunkers. With an underground stockpile of ...

Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6 million to study weedy invader

Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University Many farmers struggle with an enemy that looks like a friend. Agricultural weeds that are close ...

How new data can make ecological forecasts as good as weather forecasts

Credit: Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander, with permission from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MADISON, Wis. -- When El Nino ...

Climate change at Mount Rainier to increase ‘mismatch’ between visitors, wildflowers

Credit: Elli Theobald Spring is coming, and with it comes the promise of warmer weather, longer days and renewed life. ...

Ship noise leaves crabs too stressed to hide from danger

Credit: Martin Stevens The ocean is getting too loud even for crabs. Normally, shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) can slowly change ...

Gene regulatory factors enable bacteria to kill rivals and establish symbiosis in a squid

Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State Two factors that control the expression of a key gene required by luminescent bacteria to ...

West coast dungeness crab stable or increasing even with intensive harvest, research shows

Central California crab numbers rise to an average of five times that of past decadesCredit: NOAA Fisheries/NWFSC The West Coast ...

Recovering phosphorus from corn ethanol production can help reduce groundwater pollution

Credit: Marianne Stein URBANA, Ill. - Dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product from corn ethanol processing, is commonly ...

The impact of energy development on bird populations

Credit: Photos taken by Thomas Maechtle -co author The greater sage-grouse is an iconic bird that lives in the western ...

World-first system forecasts warming of lakes globally

Research will enable better predictions of the impact of climate change on surface water temperatures and ecologyCredit: UKCEH A groundbreaking ...

Older beetle parents ‘less flexible’

Credit: Nick Royle Older parents are less flexible when it comes to raising their offspring, according to a new study ...

Satellite data boosts understanding of climate change’s effects on kelp

Credit: Image provided by Sara Hamilton, OSU College of Science. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Tapping into 35 years of satellite imagery, ...

Scientists say it is time to save the red sea’s coral reef

Credit: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg The news in brief: 1) Red Sea corals and especially corals of the Gulf of Aqaba in ...

Pesticides increase the risk of schistosomiasis, a tropical disease

UFZ researchers have proven that polluted freshwater bodies favour the intermediate host of the pathogenCredit: @UFZ Schistosomiasis is a severe ...

Scientists create model to predict multipathogen epidemics

Zooplankton study shows within-host pathogen interactions can predict epidemic severityCredit: University of Michigan HOUSTON -- (March 5, 2020) -- Diseases ...

City fox and country fox

Genetics reveal behavioural and physical barriers between urban and rural red foxes in and around BerlinCredit: Jon Andoni Juarez Garcia ...

Balancing bushmeat trade and conservation vital to ensure livelihoods not threatened