Birds of a feather better not together
'Homogenization' threatens ecosystems at larger geographic scalesCredit: Courtesy Proceedings of the Royal Society B Diversity plays a key role in ...
Tag: Population Biology
Nutrient pollution and ocean warming negatively affect early life of corals
Credit: Raphael Ritson-Williams Corals are constantly exposed to multiple environmental stressors at any given time. On a global scale, climate ...
How millets sustained Mongolia’s empires
Stable isotope analyses reveals dramatic diet diversification at the onset of the steppe's earliest empiresCredit: Alicia Ventresca Miller The historic ...
The microbes in your mouth, and a reminder to floss and go to the dentist
Oral microbiome was subject of crowd-sourced study by CSU, Denver museumCredit: Denver Museum of Nature & Science Most people know ...
To predict an epidemic, evolution can’t be ignored
Credit: Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering When scientists try to predict the spread of something across populations--anything from a coronavirus ...
The do’s and don’ts of monitoring many wildlife species at once
UMass Amherst ecologists name pitfalls of older methods and recommend best practicesCredit: UMass Amherst/K. Devarajan AMHERST, Mass. - A new ...
When it comes to conservation, ditch the ‘canary in the coal mine’
Menagerie of several species to monitor habitat health offers better conservation outcomesCredit: Nathan Skolski With habitat loss threatening the extinction ...
Oldest reconstructed bacterial genomes link farming, herding with emergence of new disease
Scientists present the first ancient DNA that links the spread of farming culture in ancient Eurasia to the emergence of ...
Camera trap study captures Sumatran tigers, clouded leopards, other rare beasts
Credit: Photo courtesy Max Allen CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists deployed motion-sensitive camera traps across a 50-square-mile swath of Bukit Barisan ...
Why do whales migrate? They return to the tropics to shed their skin, scientists say
First suggested for killer whales, skin molt may drive long-distance migration for all whales that forage in cold watersCredit: John ...
Tools used to study human disease reveal coral disease risk factors
Credit: Dane Hallam In a study published in Scientific Reports, a team of international researchers led by University of Hawai'i ...
Himalayan wolf discovered to be a unique wolf adapted to harsh high altitude life
Himalayan wolf found to be characteristically adapted to the harsh life in the Asian high altitudesCredit: Geraldine Werhahn The Himalayan ...
Road salt harmful to native amphibians, new research shows
Credit: George Meindl BINGHAMTON, N.Y. ? The combined effects of chemical contamination by road salt and invasive species can harm ...
USask study reveals origin of endangered Colombian poison frog hybrids
Credit: Jose Andres The origin of an understudied hybrid population of poisonous frogs--highly endangered colorful animals that live deep in ...
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