Tag: Ecology/Environment

New call for funding, advocacy for botanical gardens to lead efforts to avert plant extinctionCredit: © The Morton Arboretum LISLE, ...

New tool for identifying endangered corals could aid conservation efforts

Credit: Iliana Baums, Penn State Coral conservation efforts could get a boost from a newly developed genotyping "chip"--the first of ...

Importance of rainfall highlighted for tropical animals

Credit: Cristian Bonilla Poveda URBANA, Ill. - Imagine a tropical forest and you might conjure up tall trees hung with ...

Changing landscapes, changing diets

Researchers use fossilized teeth to reveal dietary shifts in ancient herbivores and homininsCredit: Zeresenay Alemseged A new study published this ...

Scientists create protein models to explore toxic methylmercury formation

Credit: Connor Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy. A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge ...

UBCO researcher uses computer modelling to predict reef health

'Virtual' coral reefs become diagnostic tool to help manage the planet's reefsCredit: Jean-Philippe Maréchal. A UBC Okanagan researcher has developed ...

New study shows evolutionary breakdown of ‘social’ chromosome in ants

Credit: Yannick Wurm & Emeline Favreau Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have found that harmful mutations accumulating in ...

Scientists catalogue shark and ray distribution in Florida lagoon

FAU Harbor Branch study is first long-term, in-depth analysis of elasmobranch community in Southern Indian River lagoonCredit: Florida Atlantic University/Florida ...

Life in a nutshell: New species found in the carapace of late cretaceous marine turtle

Scientists identified a new ichnospecies from the shell of an extinct marine turtle fossil, the first known species coexisting on ...

Researchers successfully replace fishmeal, fish oil in farm-raised carnivorous fish

Best performing "fish-free" diet contains algae oil rich in essential omega-3 fatty acidsCredit: © Ocean Era, Inc. Researchers in Kona, ...

Ecologists put biodiversity experiments to the test

Findings from experimental sites are reliable.Credit: Forest Isbell Much of our knowledge of how biodiversity benefits ecosystems comes from experimental ...

Big mammals at higher risk of extinction in world’s poorest countries, study reveals

Big mammals such as elephants, rhinos and primates are at highest risk of extinction in the national parks and nature ...

Beam me up: Researchers use ‘behavioral teleporting’ to study social interactions

NYU Tandon professor Maurizio Porfiri 'teleports' behavior of live zebrafish from one tank to another in real time, allowing researchers ...

Strigolactones increase tolerance to weevils in tobacco plants

In a crosstalk with other plant hormones, these novel plant hormones regulate the resistance to endophytic Trichobaris mucorea larvaeCredit: Anna ...

Fossil pollen record suggests vulnerability to mass extinction ahead

Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Reduced resilience of plant biomes in North America could be setting the stage for the ...

Birds of a feather flock together, but timing depends on typhoons

Credit: Kiyoaki Ozaki, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology Six black-naped terns -- a coastal seabird found in the Pacific and Indian ...

Nutrients make coral bleaching worse

Credit: Jess Bouwmeester A new study shows nutrients can aggravate the already negative effects of climate change on corals to ...

Understanding how birds respond to extreme weather can inform conservation efforts

Credit: Jeremy Cohen MADISON, Wis. -- When it comes to climate change, University of Wisconsin¬-Madison forest and wildlife ecology Professor ...

What kind of animal transports the seeds of the world’s smallest fruit-bearing plants?

Novel seed dispersal system of a mushroom-like non-photosynthetic plantCredit: Kenji Suetsugu Balanophora have some of the smallest fruits among angiosperms, ...

Large tin monosulfide crystal opens pathway for next generation solar cells