Tag: Ecology/Environment

March 10, 2020

Credit: UGA A team of researchers from the University of Georgia and San Diego State University has found that the ...

Hot time in the city: Urban lizards evolve heat tolerance

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