Tag: Ecology/Environment

Credit: Enrico Di Minin Elephants and lions are iconic species that help raise substantial funds for conservation. However, they also ...

Survival of migrating juvenile salmon depends on stream flow thresholds

New understanding of relationship between stream flows and salmon survival provides a critical tool for balancing water needs in the ...

Yellowstone National Park is hotter than ever

New tree ring method highlights climatic changes over the last 1,250 yearsCredit: Grant L. Harley WASHINGTON--Yellowstone National Park is famous ...

Study finds high-speed ferries, recreational boats are big noise polluters in SF Bay

Credit: ProtectedSeas Palo Alto, CA--In a new study, researchers found that recreational boats and high-speed ferries contribute significant underwater noise ...

Earthquake creates ecological opportunity

Credit: Felix Vaux A University of Otago study has revealed how earthquake upheaval has affected New Zealand's coastal species. Lead ...

Recruiting participants to the first European Red list of insect taxonomists

Contributors will enable the EU to take action to plug in the essential scientific knowledge to address insect declinesCredit: Royal ...

Half of Guadeloupe’s snakes and lizards went extinct after European colonization

Researchers use fossil data to reveal the primary drivers and extent of colonial era extinctionsCredit: Photo by Omkar Vinchu from ...

White shark population is small but healthy off the coast of Central California

Credit: Scot Anderson NEWPORT, Ore. - The population of white sharks that call the Central California coast their primary home ...

Tree species diversity is no protection against bark beetle infestation

Credit: aerial photos by K. R. Kovach, Sixtoothed spruce bark beetle photo by U. Schmidt In recent years, foresters have ...

Birds dealing with change — Mapping migration routes can lead to conservation areas

Credit: Photo: Ginny Chan Tracking migratory birds that carry tiny satellite transmitters in featherlight 'backpacks', can teach us a lot ...

Envisioning safer cities with AI

Researchers use crowdsourced data, neural networks, and supercomputers to simulate risks to cities and regionsCredit: Chaofeng Wang, SimCenter, UC Berkeley ...

How a small fish coped with being isolated from the sea

12000-year-old fish bones shed light on evolutionary processes.Credit: Photo: Anders Romundset, NGU / NTNU The last ice age ended almost ...

Plant consumers play unexpectedly large role in the evolution of seedling success

Influence of herbivores likely counteracts earlier plant emergence due to climate changeCredit: Cleland Lab, UC San Diego For young plants, ...

Saving the eastern monarch butterfly: SFU research

Researchers analyzed current conservation strategies and recommended changes to how and where declining milkweed (an essential food source for butterfly ...

New model for infectious disease could better predict future pandemics

Potential benefits to health across species, communities and environments are enormousCredit: James Hassell/Smithsonian In the midst of a devastating global ...

Grazing management of salt marshes contributes to coastal defense

Credit: University of Groningen Combining natural salt marsh habitats with conventional dikes may provide a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative ...

Peatlands pose complex, poorly understood risk for similar fires, researchers warn

Findings come five years after disastrous fire in Fort McMurray, AlbertaCredit: Sophie Wilkinson, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON May 18, 2021 ...

Working together for clean water

The BMBF project "TRUST" (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research) at the University of Stuttgart developed concepts ...

Oregon State research shows why some pockets of conifer survive repeated forest fires

Credit: Will Downing, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers say "topographic templates" can help forest conservation managers develop ...

Colonization of the Antilles by South American fauna: Giant sunken islands as a passageway