Tag: Ecology/Environment

Trash draws scavengers to places they might not otherwise goCredit: NINA, game camera Animal species that are at home in ...

Credit: Alan Knapp Almost 100 years ago, there was a strange, slow-motion takeover of the Great Plains. During the Dust ...

Findings will help advance basic understanding of the genetic mechanisms by which plants control their associations with potentially beneficial root-associated ...

Researchers to identify microbes that relate to the health of ecosystemsCredit: College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina - Clemson University ...

Frieseomelitta varia is a docile species of economic interest as a pollinator; Its workers are sterile, and some of its ...

The plant parasite eavesdrops on its host and uses the host's mobile floral stimulus for timing its own floweringCredit: Jingxiong ...

Credit: Carolyn A. Jost Robinson WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Elephant trails may lead the way to better conservation approaches. "Think ...

Credit: Marko Justup, Tokyo Institute of Technology Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology together with their international collaborators developed a ...

Camera-trap study yields insights into what drives leopard population densityCredit: Photo by Michael Jeffords and Sue Post.* See Editor's note ...

Credit: LSU AgCenter The life cycle of a crawfish can be fairly straight forward. In the summer months, crawfish reproduce ...

Call of the wild: individual dolphin calls used to estimate population size and movement in the wildCredit: Dr Tess Gridley ...

Credit: Photos: Tsipe Aavik About half of the individuals of cowslip (Primula veris) have flowers with a short style, while ...

Models for estimating seed age to add clarity to future researchCredit: University of Guam University of Guam research has revealed ...

Credit: ISU News Service AMES, Iowa - Environmental extremes driven by climate change create stresses in crops, and plant breeders ...

Research led by The Singapore-ETH Centre on the quantification of mangrove carbon stocks reveals low net loss of mangrove carbon ...

Credit: Nellie Pease The northern quoll, one of Australia's most adorable and endangered native carnivores, appears to be adapted to ...

Research organization is at forefront of pressing global water challenges; New funding coincides with World Water Week and UN's 75th ...

Recycle-compatible, environmentally friendly technology inspired by footpad formation mechanism during fly's pupal metamorphosisCredit: Hokkaido University of Education NIMS, HUE and ...

Credit: Photo by Thomas Martin MISSOULA - With climate change heating the globe, drought more frequently impacts the reproduction and ...

Credit: Adrian Smith and Patrik Flammer, University of Oxford, UK Although helminth infections--including tapeworms and roundworms--are among the world's top ...