Tag: Ecology/Environment

Credit: Paul Glaum ANN ARBOR--Wild bees are indispensable pollinators, supporting both agricultural productivity and the diversity of flowering plants worldwide. ...

Increased dust loads result in decreased chewing efficiency in chimpanzeesCredit: © Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Roman Wittig In their study, the researchers ...

Refined techniques for laser imaging of shell growth rings are tapping into previously hidden data of marine climate change; by ...

Diet may be an important factor for Influenza A virus exposure in wild African mammalsCredit: Gábor Czirják/IZW Given the importance ...

Credit: University of Cambridge Smaller beetles who consistently lose fights over resources can gain a competitive advantage over their larger ...

Researchers forecast interactions between two owl species and the quality of their habitat in the Pacific NorthwestCredit: Photo courtesy of ...

Credit: Philip Higuera MISSOULA - In a recent study, University of Montana researchers explored the ways forest succession and climate ...

Credit: WSU Last August, Abdelrhman Mohamed found himself hiking deep into the wilderness of Yellowstone National Park. Unlike thousands of ...

This finding, publishing March 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, suggests new ways to monitor changes in the world's ...

Credit: Jeff Warren/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Neutrons--Fighting superbugs As the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a method of plastics upcycling--transforming discarded ...

20 leading researchers have confirmed in a new study that the dingo is actually a unique, Australian species in its ...

Credit: YE Qing Physiological coordination between plant height and xylem hydraulic traits is aligned with habitat water availability across Earth's ...

Preening drives divergent camouflage in feather lice on both micro- and macro-evolutionary timescalesCredit: Adapted from Bush et. al. 2019. Evo ...

  Ithaca, NY--Using data on 77 North American migratory bird species from the eBird citizen-science program, scientists at the Cornell ...

Declaration will 'shine a light on the human and financial resources needed to implement restoration globally.'Credit: Julie Chenot The United ...

Thermal stress measurements sound the alarm about drought conditions soonerCredit: Duke Univ. DURHAM, N.C. -- More than 2 billion people ...

An international team gauges the coming threat of mosquito-borne diseasesCredit: Moritz Kraemer for Nature Microbiology; DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0376-y. Outbreaks of mosquito-borne ...

Credit: Greg Nickerson A rare plant found only at two sites in central Wyoming has persisted, in part, because it ...

Credit: Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The algae responsible for Florida's toxic red tides may be more ...