June 27, 2022 — Vultures perform important ecosystem functions as they clean the landscape by eating carcasses and thus limit the spread of wildlife diseases. Yet, vulture populations are rapidly declining, mainly ...
June 24, 2022 — Temperature changes have negatively impacted most species of bumble bees over the past 120 years, according to new new research. The researchers note that changes in temperature had more of a ...
June 22, 2022 — To identify variations in climate across Maine wild blueberry fields at different times of the day and year, researchers analyzed annual and seasonal data from 1980-2020 for Washington, Hancock, ...
June 22, 2022 — A new global study of 46,752 tree species shows that many of them are under substantial pressure and poorly protected. The research team has also studied how this situation can be improved by ...
June 21, 2022 — Behavioral ecologists have discovered a way to harness animals' olfactory ability to protect vulnerable plants and endangered ...
June 21, 2022 — Researchers have developed a model that can estimate the productivity of mangrove forests at large scales. A remote sensing-based productivity model that considered the effects of tidal inundation ...
June 20, 2022 — Species have intrinsic value, but also provide ecosystem services of major economic value, for example, bees that pollinate our crops. However, as such values are hard to translate into figures, ...
June 20, 2022 — A team has been studying the current state of research on the plant colonization of land that occurred some 500 million years ...
June 17, 2022 — A new botanical survey of southwest Ohio found that invasive species introduced to the United States over the past century are crowding out many native ...
June 17, 2022 — Restoration of mangroves and coral reefs can be a cost-effective solution for coastal flood reduction in more than 20 countries across the Caribbean. Researchers used methods from the risk and ...
June 17, 2022 — The local environment plays a pivotal role in the health and diversity of the gut microbiome of wild bees which could help detect invisible stressors and early indicators of potential threats, say ...
June 17, 2022 — Researchers studied a practice known as silvopasture which intentionally preserves trees in pastures where livestock graze. They found that compared to a completely cleared, tree-less, open pasture, ...
June 17, 2022 — A new study has found that invading subtropical corals will survive and thrive in coastal Sydney, which could spell trouble for existing Sydney coral ...
June 16, 2022 — The world's coastlines are rapidly urbanizing, but how this increased human presence may impact species living in the ocean is not fully understood. Scientists tracked the movements of three ...
June 16, 2022 — Several species of California bumble bees have gone missing in the first statewide census of the fuzzy pollinators in 40 ...
June 15, 2022 — By coexisting more closely with mangroves, tropical coral species may have found an alternative habitat where they can thrive in the face of climate ...
June 15, 2022 — A new study in Ocean and Coastal Management shows that seagrass fisheries provide a reliable safety-net for poor, since fishermen perceive those habitats to maintain large fish catches over time. ...
June 14, 2022 — Researchers conducted an eight-year experiment that found that climate warming played a predominant role in shaping microbial biodiversity, with significant negative ...
June 14, 2022 — Prehistoric coral reefs dating back up to 250 million years extended much further away from the Earth's equator than today, new research has ...
June 13, 2022 — Historic virus infections can be traced in vertebrate genomes. For millions of years, these genomes have been repositories for retroviruses that incorporated their code into germline cells and were ...