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Predicting Future Threats for Global Amphibian Biodiversity
November 16, 2011 — Amphibian populations are declining worldwide, and their declines far exceed those of other animal groups: more than 30% of all species are listed as threatened according to experts. Multiple factors ... > full story -
New Model More Accurately Describes Migratory Animals' Extinction Risk
November 16, 2011 — Predicting the risk of extinction is a complicated task, especially for species that migrate between breeding and wintering sites. Researchers have now developed a mathematical model that may make ... > full story -
Do Not Harm Invasive Species That Pollinate, Study Warns
November 16, 2011 — Researchers found that invasive species can become essential to the very ecosystems threatened by their presence, taking on important biological roles -- such as flower pollination -- once held by ... > full story -
Global Warming’s Impact May Be Detected in Genes, Suggests Study of How Seagrasses React to Heat Waves
November 16, 2011 — Seagrass populations thrive in the shallow coastal regions and offer an ideal habitat for many fish, crustacean and microbes. The worldwide decline of seagrass populations in recent years is ... > full story -
Catching Camels in the Gobi
November 11, 2011 — Veterinary scientists have successfully attached GPS satellite collars to endangered wild Bactrian camels in the Mongolian desert. Their efforts are part of the long-term Gobi Research Project on ... > full story -
More Than 50 Percent Decline in Elephants in Eastern Congo Due to Human Conflict
November 10, 2011 — Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial animals, according to a new ... > full story -
Citrus Indica Tanaka: A Progenitor Species of Cultivated Citrus
November 10, 2011 — Recent findings show that C. indica occupies a special taxonomic position as reflected from the Karyomorphological data generated by ... > full story -
Conservation Scientists 'Unanimous' in Expectations of Serious Loss of Biological Diversity, Study Shows
November 8, 2011 — The number of species recognized as endangered is ever increasing and a new study reveals the unanimity among conservation scientists of expectations of a major loss of biological diversity. The ... > full story -
Sea Life 'Must Swim Faster to Survive' to Survive Climate Change
November 7, 2011 — Fish and other sea creatures will have to travel large distances to survive climate change, international marine scientists have warned. Sea life, particularly in the Indian Ocean, the Western and ... > full story -
Flash Forward 100 Years: Climate Change Scenarios in California's Bay-Delta
November 6, 2011 — Scientists investigated how California's interconnected San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (the Bay-Delta system) is expected to change from 2010 to 2099 in response to both fast and ... > full story
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