Framework sheds light on nitrogen loss of producing common food items
Credit: Shu Kee Lam January 13, 2021 - The element nitrogen is a double-edged sword. It is essential for growing ...
Tag: Ecology/Environment
No-till practices in vulnerable areas significantly reduce soil erosion
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Soil erosion is a major challenge in agricultural production. It ...
New study reveals how fences hinder migratory wildlife in the West
Researchers use animal tracking data to highlight fences that impede the movements of mule deer and pronghorn antelopeCredit: Image courtesy ...
Beating the ‘billion-dollar bug’ is a shared burden
Study shows how individual farming practices associated with greater corn rootworm damage can have farther-reaching effectsCredit: Original image from Carol ...
Unsure how to help reverse insect declines? Scientists suggest simple ways
Credit: Jeff Gage/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Entomologist Akito Kawahara's message is straightforward: We can't live without insects. They're in ...
Study finds future too warm for baby sharks
Climate change causing sharks to be born smaller, undernourishedCredit: E.Moothart A new study conducted at the New England Aquarium finds ...
Making hydrogen energy with the common nickel
Credit: POSTECH To resolve the energy crisis and environmental issues, research to move away from fossil fuels and convert to ...
Knowledge of cycad branching behavior improves conservation
Guam's branched cycads less vulnerable to destruction by non-native insectCredit: Montgomery Botanical Center Research on cycad trees in Colombia, Guam, ...
Climate change reduces the abundance and diversity of wild bees, study finds
Credit: Kate Anton, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Wild bees are more affected by climate change than by disturbances ...
Future too warm for baby sharks
Credit: M. Johnson New research has found as climate change causes the world's oceans to warm, baby sharks are born ...
Researchers find nonnative species in Oahu play greater role in seed dispersal
Credit: Patrick Kelley University of Wyoming researchers headed a study that shows nonnative birds in Oahu, Hawaii, have taken over ...
Ocean acidification is transforming California mussel shells
New analyses reveal how over 60 years a critical marine species has responded to ocean acidificationCredit: Roy Lab, UC San ...
More management measures lead to healthier fish populations
Credit: Chris Anderson/University of Washington Fish populations tend to do better in places where rigorous fisheries management practices are used, ...
Big differences in how coral reef fish larvae are dispersed
Rutgers-led research could help scientists improve conservation of speciesCredit: Katrina A. Catalano How the larvae of colorful clownfish that live ...
Bats with white-nose syndrome prefer suboptimal habitats despite the consequences
Credit: Joseph Hoyt of Virginia Tech Since 2006, a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome has caused sharp declines in bat ...
Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops
CABBI study shows the annual crop behaves more like the perennial grass miscanthus in its efficient use of water and ...
Native biodiversity collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean
Most native species are going locally extinct, while introduced tropical species thriveCredit: © Paolo Albano The coastline of Israel is ...
Where antibiotic resistance comes from
Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg By comparing thousands of bacterial genomes, scientists in Gothenburg, Sweden have traced back the evolutionary ...
Oldest hominins of Olduvai Gorge persisted across changing environments
~2.0 to 1.8 million year-old archaeological site demonstrates that early humans had the skills and tools to cope with ecological ...
Harbor porpoises on the decline in the German North Sea
Greater conservation efforts are needed to protect the species, which has been affected by human activities at seaCredit: D. Nachtsheim ...
