Ecology

Biologists thought that marine heat waves lowered urchin reproduction only at lethal temperatures. A new study shows reproductive shutdown even earlier.This article was originally published on this website.

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS), in collaboration with Argentina’s Center for Advanced Studies in Earth Sciences and Biodiversity (CADIC-CONICET), has identified critical blind spots […]

The social interactions Western Australian magpies experience in their first year of life affects their intelligence, according to a new study.This article was originally published on this website.

More CO2 in the atmosphere is making food crops more caloric, less nutritious and potentially more toxic. If we do not intervene, this could cause malnutrition, even in population groups that currently have enough to […]

A wildlife photographer out on a whale watching trip in waters off Seattle captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering onto the stern […]

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have conducted an ecosystem-wide assessment of enhanced rock weathering (ERW) in forest plantations. Led by Dr. Kang Ronghua, the team revealed […]

Droughts are having a major impact on Europe’s forests—and climate change could make them even more frequent—but diversity helps.This article was originally published on this website.

Seven new species of a distinctive frog-like insect have been discovered by a scientist from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, England.This article was originally published on this website.

How much squid do short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the coast of Hawai’i need to consume each day to survive and are there sufficient squid to sustain the population? Knowing these basic facts is […]

Biological communities are rarely stable. Their composition is constantly changing, depending on the environmental conditions in the respective ecosystems—and sometimes this change is so vast that individual species completely disappear from a community. In order […]