Research reveals fishing pressures affect tropical and temperate reefs differentl
Credit: Elizabeth Madin, University of Hawai'i In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers ...
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The MIT Press and UC Berkeley launch Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 journal
The new open access, rapid-review overlay journal aims to combat misinformation in COVID-19 researchCredit: The MIT Press CAMBRIDGE, MA - ...
Maryland offshore wind farm could become stop-over for migrating sturgeon, striped bass
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Mike O'Brien SOLOMONS, MD (June 23, 2020)--For the endangered Atlantic sturgeon and the ...
Spider baby boom in a warmer Arctic
Climate change leads to longer growing seasons in the Arctic. A new study shows that predators like wolf spiders respond ...
Cowbirds change their eggs’ sex ratio based on breeding time
Credit: Photo (c) by Michael Jeffords and Sue Post CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Brown-headed cowbirds show a bias in the sex ...
A dirty job: Tracking coronavirus using human waste
University of Missouri scientists assisting Missouri officials with Coronavirus Sewershed Surveillance ProjectCredit: University of Missouri Recent studies in the Netherlands ...
Size matters in the sex life of salmon
Credit: Mikko Ellmen Every summer, tens of thousands of Atlantic salmon migrate from the Barents Sea to the Teno River, ...
First COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa begins
The first participants in South Africa's first clinical trial for a vaccine against Covid-19 will be vaccinated this weekCredit: WITS ...
Are protected areas effective at maintaining large carnivore populations?
Credit: Daniel Burgas-Riera A recent study, led by the University of Helsinki, used a novel combination of statistical methods and ...
A new social role for echolocation in bats that hunt together
Credit: Irene Mendez Cruz Searching for food at night can be tricky. To find prey in the dark, bats use ...
Bobwhites listen to each other when picking habitat
Credit: Photo by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Northern bobwhites are attracted to a habitat based on ...
Five steps to stop the death of the most threatened birds of prey
Power lines: a threat to all birds worldwideCredit: Conservation Biology Group (University of Barcelona-IRBio) An article published in the journal ...
Wind farms on the Black Sea coast could endanger bat populations in Eastern Europe
Credit: Christian Voigt, IZW The Via Pontica, an important migration route for birds in Eastern Europe, runs along the Black ...
BioRescue’s most successful oocyte collection and embryo creation in southern white rhinos
The international consortium performed the procedure in the German Serengeti Park HodenhagenCredit: Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen In order to prevent the extinction ...
World’s most complete health analysis of nesting sea turtles conducted in Florida
Study provides critical data for sea turtle conservation and population recoveryCredit: Jennifer Reilly While it's only about a 10-kilometer stretch, ...
Red Sea plankton communities ebb and flow with the seasons
Credit: © 2020 KAUST The communities of tiny picoplankton in oceans reveal a great deal about the health of marine ...
Surprising growth rates discovered in world’s deepest photosynthetic corals
Credit: Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, University of Hawaii. New research published in the journal Coral Reefs revealed unexpectedly high growth ...
Where have the swans gone?
Wintering area Bewick's swans shifts hundreds of kilometres in 50 yearsCredit: Bart Nolet/NIOO-KNAW Nearly 13 kilometres per year: that is ...
Simulations reveal interplay between scent marking and disease spread
Accounting for individual animal movement could boost understanding of emerging infectious diseasesCredit: Martyn Smith, Flickr In a new mathematical model ...
Tropical disease in medieval Europe revises the history of a pathogen related to syphilis
Genomic analysis of plague victims from a mass burial in Lithuania identifies a medieval woman who was also infected with ...