Large carnivores and zoos — essential for biodiversity conservation marketing
Credit: M. Saint Jalme Large carnivores (e.g. bears, big cats, wolves and elephant seals) and zoos should be utilised as ...
Tag: Ecology/Environment
Even resilient common species are not immune to environmental crisis
Measures of genetic diversity of a fruit bat common in Singapore decreased 30-fold over the last 90 yearsCredit: ©2013 Simon ...
Agricultural parasite avoids evolutionary arms race, shuts down genes of host plants
Credit: Claude dePamphilis, Penn State A parasitic plant has found a way to circumvent an evolutionary arms race with the ...
Ancient events are still impacting mammals worldwide
Researchers find signatures of deep past in biodiversity patterns todayCredit: Figure courtesy of John Rowan/UMass Amherst HOUSTON -- (Dec. 16, ...
Underwater pile driving noise causes alarm responses in squid
Credit: (Photo by Ian Jones, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Exposure to underwater pile driving noise, which can be associated with ...
UK insects struggling to find a home make a bee-line for foreign plants
Credit: RHS Non-native plants are providing new homes for Britain's insects - some of which are rare on native plants, ...
EHP names new editor-in-chief
Credit: University of Washington Joel Kaufman, M.D., M.P.H., has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a ...
Birds’ seasonal migrations shift earlier as climate changes, new research shows
UMass Amherst, Colorado State, Cornell study analyzed 2 decades of migration dataCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In what the ...
It’s always a good hair day for Leptothrix cholodnii
Researchers led by a team at the University of Tsukuba find that hair-like structures on the surface of aquatic bacterium ...
Uranium chemistry and geological disposal of radioactive waste
New insights using the diamond lightCredit: Diamond Light Source A new paper to be published on 16 December provides a ...
Wyss Academy for Nature founded at the University of Bern
Credit: University of Bern, Image: Ramon Lehmann Rapid biodiversity losses, accelerated climate change, and a growing demand for land resources ...
Salmon lose diversity in managed rivers, reducing resilience to environmental change
Natural resilience is more important than ever in the face of unprecedented climate changeCredit: Sturrock et al. 2019 The manipulation ...
Canadian tundra formerly covered in rich forest: Ancient plant fossil record shows
Credit: Daniel Hallen/USask SASKATOON--The heady aroma of magnolia blossoms and lotus flowers might have wafted to your nostrils if you ...
Climate cycles and insect pests drive migration timing of reindeer’s North American cousin
In the largest-ever caribou study a University of Maryland-led team disputes long-held assumptions about migration timing and suggests warming summers ...
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