TTUHSC researchers use NHANES to search for hypothyroid-sleep apnea link
Study indicates hypothyroidism patients are more likely to develop the sleep disorderCredit: TTUHSC Several past studies have sought to determine ...
Tag: Population Biology
Predators and hidey-holes are good for reef fish populations
Credit: Hannah Levenson New research highlights two factors that play a critical role in supporting reef fish populations and - ...
New method improves measurement of animal behaviour using deep learning
Credit: Jake Graving A new toolkit goes beyond existing machine learning methods by measuring body posture in animals with high ...
Purple martin migration behavior perplexes researchers
Credit: Photo by Michael Jeffords and Susan Post CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Purple martins will soon migrate south for their usual ...
Study confirms Monterey Bay Aquarium surrogate-reared sea otters helped restore threatened population
Scientists estimate surrogate-raised otters and their wild offspring account for more than half of the sea otter population growth over ...
Bee biodiversity barometer on Fiji
New species described as environment changesCredit: James Dorey, Flinders University The biodiversity buzz is alive and well in Fiji, but ...
Not the hairstyle, but the content: Hair indicates whether wild animals were ‘stressed’
Credit: Artemy Voikhansky, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55825509 While hair analysis has become routine in humans - for example for the detection of prolonged ...
Elephant seal ‘supermoms’ produce most of the population, study finds
High mortality rates for young elephant seals means long-lived females dominate the reproductive output of the populationCredit: Dan Costa Most ...
Scientists identify previously unknown ‘hybrid zone’ between hummingbird species
Credit: Brian Myers We usually think of a species as being reproductively isolated - that is, not mating with other ...
Preventing people from abandoning exotic pets that threatened biodiversity
From buying impulsively to abandoning exotic petsCredit: Amphibians and Reptiles Recovery Centre of Catalonia (CRARC), Abandoning exotic pets is an ...
Revolutionary method could bring us much closer to the description of hyperdiverse faunas
At today's rate, it could take another two millennia for science to document all currently existing species of multicellular lifeCredit: ...
Marine census
Marine scientists to monitor the health and biodiversity of marine protected areas along the California coast They're slipping on their ...
Hidden world of stream biodiversity revealed through water sampling for environmental DNA
CORVALLIS, Ore. - For the first time, researchers have used a novel genomics-based method to detect the simultaneous presence of ...
Climate changes faster than animals adapt
Credit: Bernard Castelein Climate change can threaten species and extinctions can impact ecosystem health. It is therefore of vital importance ...
Fussy fish can have their coral, and eat it too
Being a fussy eater is a problem for reef fish who seek refuge from climate change on deeper reefs. But, ...
The first bioluminescent click beetle discovered in Asia represents a new subfamily
Credit: Mr Wen-Xuan Bi A remarkable bioluminescent click beetle was discovered in the subtropical evergreen broadleaf forests in southwest China. ...
Is 2016 US presidential election associated with preterm births among Latina women?
Bottom Line: A national population-based study suggests the 2016 U.S. presidential election may have been associated with an increase in ...
Species on the move
Social media posts help researchers to discover climate change is to blame for displacement of 55 species in UKCredit: (c) ...
New species of flying squirrel from Southwest China added to the rarest and ‘most wanted’
Credit: Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden Described in 1981, the genus Biswamoyopterus is regarded as the most mysterious and rarest ...
Do marine protected areas work?
Study identifies how to verify whether MPAs are effective Marine protected areas, or MPAS, are an increasingly common way of ...