Ecology

A new paper outlines how scientists came together to put together the first microbial conservation roadmap under the leadership of Applied Microbiology International President, Professor Jack Gilbert.This article was originally published on this website.

There is broad support for regulated lethal control of wild deer to reduce their numbers and impacts among subscribers of nature organizations in England and Wales, a new study has found.This article was originally published […]

Two Virginia high school students have discovered how sea anemones respond to salinity changes caused by hurricane rainfall. As hurricanes worsen due to climate change, this important information could help conservation efforts and inspire advocacy […]

A new study of 1960s maps, many of which were created by young people, has provided important fresh evidence of the timing and extent of habitat losses caused by agricultural intensification and urban growth in […]

Open semi-natural settings in urban areas—like parks and golf courses teeming with plants and small mammals—are possible hotspots for interaction between coyotes and humans, a new study suggests.This article was originally published on this website.

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce new sounds. But a new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology reveals that many more birds […]

Chronic wasting disease, a prion protein disease that is fatal in elk, deer, and other cervids, has spread rapidly across the United States since it was first identified in 1967. CWD has now reached Idaho […]

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world’s largest rainforest, according to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences led by the […]

A new paper by University of Rhode Island post-doctoral researchers Emily Sperou and Renato Borras-Chavez published in the journal Polar Biology discusses a unique phenomenon observed in a reclusive Antarctic animal: postmortem attentive behavior, or […]

A study published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze over 300,000 hours of vocal recordings of mammal species from Far North Queensland to southern New South Wales and discovered […]