Multicultural creatures of habit
Long-term study reveals migratory patterns of batsCredit: Uwe Hoffmeister Every year trillions of animals migrate for thousands of kilometres between ...
Tag: Population Biology
New insights on animal movement in fire-prone landscapes
Credit: Biological Reviews A new Biological Reviews article considers how fire histories affect animals' movement and shape the distribution of ...
Loss of forest intactness increases extinction risk in birds
Fragmentation within intact forests has a higher impact on vertebrate biodiversity than equivalent losses in already degraded landscapes, but the ...
Red wolf DNA found in mysterious Texas canines
Newly discovered canine population has unique genes that may have been lost to the captive breeding population.Credit: Courtesy of Ron ...
Broading the biodiversity catalogue of spider populations in the Iberian Peninsula
Iberian arachnology: An area to be exploredCredit: Marc Domènech (University of Barcelona) The new study, covering the largest study area ...
Plant biologists identify mechanism behind transition from insect to wind pollination
Credit: David Timerman TORONTO, ON (Canada) - New research by scientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) offers ...
Scientists revealed how water fleas settled during the Ice Age
Credit: Elena Zuykova, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SB RA New study shows that the roots used by ...
Willow tits survive best with support from a flock
Long dark winters are challenging for small birds, but living as a flock makes it easierCredit: Photo: Nina Tveter, NTNU ...
Hen harriers and red grouse: Finding common ground in a persistent conflict
A conflict between those working to conserve numbers of hen harriers and those maintaining commercial shooting of red grouse in ...
Drones can detect protected nightjar nests
Thermal-sensing cameras mounted on drones may offer a safer and more cost-effective way to locate nests of the elusive European ...
Researchers find clue to epidemics in 'bursty' social behavior
NYU Tandon researchers discover that feed back loop in human interactions can play a big role in how diseases spread ...
Potential range for new invasive tick covers much of eastern US
Asian longhorned tick could find plenty of suitable habitat in North America similar to its native regionCredit: Ilia Rochlin, Ph.D., ...
Interventions in dog populations could reduce rabies in rural China
Credit: Tian H, et al. (2018) Domestic dogs play a key role in the transmission and expansion of rabies in ...
The fauna in the Antarctica is threatened by pathogens humans spread in polar latitudes
When the human species infects other living beingsCredit: Jacob González-Solís (University of Barcelona-IRBio) The new study, which detected bacteria from ...