Tag: Ecology/Environment

March 20, 2019

Credit: Dr. Aimee P. Rockhill (Western Carolina University) and Dr. Christopher S. DePerno (North Carolina State University) Coyotes eat deer, ...

Wildlife tourism may negatively affect African elephants’ behavior

March 20, 2019

Credit: Isabelle Szott Increasing numbers of tourists are interested in observing wildlife such as African elephants, and income generated from ...

Data-driven modeling and estimation of lithium-ion battery properties

Columbia Engineers design a model that can predict how to get the best performance from Li-Ion batteries Electric vehicles are ...

Fishing for fun, not food: Study takes stock of recreational fishing impacts

New management schemes needed to maintain stocks in fisheries worldwide The vast majority of people who fish in the world ...

Woolly stars need catastrophes to live

In the Santa Ana River floodplain, an endangered plant needs the effects of intense flooding to grow and survive in ...

Study finds natural selection favors cheaters

UC Riverside research focused on interaction between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and their hostsCredit: Sachs lab, UC Riverside Mutualisms, which are interactions ...

Discovery of parasitic arsenic cycle may offer glimpse of life in future, warmer oceans

Credit: Steve Giovannoni CORVALLIS, Ore. - A newly discovered parasitic cycle, in which ocean bacteria keep phytoplankton on an energy-sapping ...

‘Insectageddon’ is ‘alarmist by bad design’: Scientists point out the study’s major flaws

Earlier this year, a research article triggered a media frenzy by predicting that as a result of an ongoing rapid ...

When development and conservation clash in the Serengeti

A proposed Northern Serengeti all-weather tarmac road that will bisect Serengeti National Park, a World Heritage site, has sparked considerable ...

Tiny song bird makes record migration, U of G study proves

For the first time, University of Guelph biologists have tracked an annual migration of up to 20,000 kilometers made by ...

Across North America and the Atlantic, an enormous migration journey for a tiny songbird

UMass Amherst, Canadian researchers identify blackpoll warbler migration routesCredit: UMass Amherst/University of Guelph AMHERST, Mass. - Blackpoll warblers that breed ...

New model IDs primate species with potential to spread Zika in the Americas

Interactive maps can guide surveillance efforts, protect human healthCredit: Carol Blyberg (Millbrook, NY) In the Americas, primate species likely to ...

Food safety: Dung beetles and soil bacteria reduce risk of human pathogens

Credit: Matthew Jones, Washington State University Food safety regulations increasingly pressure growers to remove hedgerows, ponds and other natural habitats ...

Algal library lends insights into genes for photosynthesis

Credit: Produced by the Princeton University Office of the Dean for Research It isn't easy being green. It takes thousands ...

When it comes to monarchs, fall migration matters

Credit: MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Scientists studying monarch butterflies have traditionally focused on two sources for their decline - ...

Rising global shipping traffic could lead to surge in invasive species

Maritime trade likely to far outweigh climate change as driver of bio-invasions over next 30 years, study finds Rising global ...

EPFL researchers make a key discovery on how alpine streams work

Back to the drawing board for conservationists battling against infectious parrot disease

A study into the effectiveness of disinfecting birds' nests, carried out by the University of Kent, has led to a ...

Trembling aspen leaves could save future Mars rovers

Credit: University of Warwick Researchers at the University of Warwick have been inspired by the unique movement of trembling aspen ...

UTA researcher designing sustainable practices for small gold-mining communities