Ecology

Efforts to join up isolated plant and animal habitats across the world should also protect against unintentionally harming them, new research shows.This article was originally published on this website.

An invasive grass found on almost every continent and considered a pest in 73 countries isn’t just weeding out native plants, it is creating a haven for disease-carrying ticks and raising public health risk concerns.This […]

Climate change is extending the growing season in European forests, but this effect will not be sufficient to offset the negative impacts of increasing drought stress. An international research team led by Jan Tumajer from […]

Climate change is driving drastic environmental shifts and accelerating global biodiversity loss. Hybrid introgression has recently emerged as a key mechanism enabling rapid adaptation to historical climate change. Yet empirical evidence remains scarce on whether […]

Many species benefit from the habitats that beavers create by building dams—and not just aquatic life. A new study by the WSL and Eawag research institutes published in the Journal of Animal Ecology shows that […]

University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers are part of a study that used modern thermal drone technology to uncover thriving yet previously under-reported populations of endangered koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) and southern greater gliders (Petauroides volans) across […]

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive.This article was originally published on this website.

The transmission of malaria by the Anopheles cruzii mosquito in the South and Southeast of Brazil was so alarming in the 1940s—with approximately 4,000 cases per 100,000 people—that the disease became known as bromeliad malaria. […]

Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have imaged a heritable form of bacterial symbiosis inside the reproductive system of tiny crustaceans known as ostracods.This article was originally published on this website.

Agriculture, wastewater, dams, the runoff of fine sediments from croplands and, last but not least, climate change with its rising temperatures are changing the quality and structure of freshwater ecosystems, especially rivers. However, until now […]