Tag: Ecology/Environment

April 28, 2020

Researchers explore how natural processes determine the distribution of chemical elements in soils and highlight the effect of miningCredit: Earth ...

Invasive lionfish likely to become permanent residents in the Mediterranean

April 28, 2020

Credit: Marine and Environmental Research (MER) Lab An invasive species first identified in the Mediterranean Sea just eight years ago ...

Three years of monitoring of Oregon’s gray whales shows changes in health

Credit: GEMM Lab, Oregon State University NEWPORT, Ore. - Three years of "health check-ups" on Oregon's summer resident gray whales ...

Salmonid fishes use different mechanism to defend against parasite infections

Credit: Pekka Hyvärinen, The Natural Resources Institute Finland Collaborate research of the University of Jyvaskyla and the Natural Resources Institute ...

New species of moths discovered in the Alps named after three famous alpinists

Credit: P. Buchner / Tiroler Landesmuseen The discovery of new, still unnamed animal species in a well-researched European region like ...

Poor Amazonians go hungry despite living in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth

Credit: Daniel Tregidgo Poorer rural Amazonians are going hungry despite living in one of the most biodiverse areas on the ...

Dramatic loss of food plants for insects

Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Zurich investigated the 100-year development in the canton of ZurichCredit: © Foto: Eliane ...

Assessing El Niño’s impact on fisheries and aquaculture around the world

Credit: © IRD - Arnaud Bertrand While considerable resources are invested in seasonal forecasts and early-warning systems for food security, ...

Training instance segmentation neural network with synthetic datasets for seed phenotyping

Development of an efficient method to accelerate the development of machine learning models for plant phenotypingCredit: Issey Takahashi In the ...

Warming climate undoes decades of knowledge of marine protected areas

Climate change and warming seas are transforming tropical coral reefs and undoing decades of knowledge about how to protect these ...

Learn from past to protect oceans

Credit: NOAA Photo Library History holds valuable lessons - and stark warnings - about how to manage fisheries and other ...

Hummingbirds show up when tropical trees fall down

Credit: Photo by Henry Pollock, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - When the tree fell that October in 2015, the ...

Iron deficiency in corals?

When iron is limited, microalgae that live in coral cells may compensate with other metalsCredit: Todd LaJeunesse, Penn State When ...

North Atlantic right whales are in much poorer condition than Southern right whales

Credit: Photos: Fredrik Christiansen (left & center-left), Stephen M. Dawson (center-right), John W. Durban and Holly Fearnbach (right). BOSTON, MASS. ...

New study takes the pulse of a sleeping supervolcano

Credit: Osvaldo González-Maurel Under the volcanoes in the Andes where Chile, Argentina and Bolivia meet, there is a gigantic reservoir ...

Following the insect meltdown, numbers of orb web spiders have drastically declined

Credit: Rainer Altenkamp The abundance of large orb web spiders in the Swiss midland has declined drastically over the last ...

Dramatic decrease in cold-water plankton during industrial era

Credit: Credit P. Spooner & D. Thornalley. There has been a dramatic decrease in cold-water plankton during the 20th century, ...

Stirling receives £1.2 million to study global sustainability

Credit: University of Stirling A new £1.2 million project - led by the University of Stirling - is aiming to ...

Recurrent genomic selection for wheat grain fructans

Credit: Lynn Veenstra Fructans are naturally occurring plant polymers composed of fructose molecules. They are found in approximately 15% of ...

Digital agriculture paves the road to agricultural sustainability