Tag: Ecology/Environment

Credit: Trinity College Dublin. Zoologists from Trinity College Dublin, working in tropical Southeast Asia, have uncovered a modern-day example of ...

Credit: Photo by Gang Wang CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The banyan fig tree Ficus microcarpa is famous for its aerial roots, ...

Seasonal dietary changes increase the abundances of savanna herbivore speciesCredit: Gareth Hempson/Wits University African savannas are renowned for their huge ...

Pests pose danger to tomato and other solanaceous cropsCredit: University of Guam The University of Guam received another round of ...

Credit: Andrey I. Khalaim Scientists at the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT) in Mexico recently discovered five new species of ...

Value of nationwide pollinator monitoring schemes, some involving citizen scientists, is 70 times higher than their costCredit: Credit Nadine Mitschunas ...

Credit: TJ Watt A failure by governments to deliver on commitments under a global nature conservation treaty, the Convention on ...

Credit: RUDN University A team of soil scientists from RUDN University confirmed that traditional approaches to urban soil pollution monitoring ...

Credit: Jim Hudgins, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Plant cultivars are natural variants of native plants that have been deliberately ...

New ice-sheet 'emulator' focuses on Antarctica, Rutgers research showsCredit: Ted Scambos/NSIDC Projections of potentially dramatic sea-level rise from ice-sheet melting ...

Researchers identify a unique version of a photosynthetic enzyme that has been in use for billions of yearsCredit: Henrique Pereira/Berkeley ...

Project is aimed at developing new technologies to ensure clean drinking waterCredit: The University of Toledo Searching for new ways ...

Study finds 57% drop in reproduction when exposed to both threatsCredit: Clara Stuligross/UC Davis The loss of flowering plants and ...

Fossil records depict devastating effect of humans on birds in the BahamasCredit: (Kamella Boullé/Macaulay Library) Though some believe prehistoric humans ...

Credit: Andy Radford ; Michalis Mantelos From ants to primates, 'Napoleonic' intelligence has evolved to help animals contend with the ...

First study to compare dietary signatures of African and South American mammals in quest to reconstruct ancient ecosystems finds need ...

Credit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineer is investigating the effectiveness of implementing green pavement markings ...

Meta-analysis by research team from the universities of Bielefeld and Jena shows that in animals, difficult living conditions increase risk-taking ...

Interdisciplinary team of researchers combines image-based particle analysis with artificial intelligenceCredit: Susanne Dunker From pollen forecasting, honey analysis and climate-related ...

Credit: University of South Florida What exactly happened in Asia that caused SARS-CoV-2 to rapidly spread across the region and ...