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Biodiversity Leads to Higher Productivity
March 21, 2011 — Ecosystems containing several species are more productive than individual species on their own. Using data from more than 400 published experiments, an international research team has found ... > full story -
Biodiversity Conservation: Zoos Urged to Breed Animals from Threatened Populations
March 17, 2011 — Zoological gardens breed animals from threatened populations and can thus make a greater contribution towards biodiversity ... > full story -
Maquipucuna Cloud Forest in Ecuador Yields New Species of Yeast
March 15, 2011 — A new species of yeast has been discovered growing on the fruit of an unidentified and innocuous bramble collected from the biodiversity-rich Maquipucuna cloud forest nature reserve, near Quito, in ... > full story -
Rock-Paper-Scissors Tournaments Explain Ecological Diversity
March 14, 2011 — The mystery of biodiversity -- how thousands of similar species can co-exist in a single ecosystem -- might best be understood as the result of a massive rock-paper-scissors tournament, a new study ... > full story -
Seedlings Thrive With Distant Relatives, Seeds With Close Family
March 14, 2011 — A variety of angiosperm seedlings suffered from competition when planted with near relatives in home soils and fared best with distant relatives. But, seeds did just the opposite in a new study. And ... > full story -
Non-Native Snakes Are Taking a Toll on Native Birds in Florida, Scientists Find
March 10, 2011 — The Everglades National Park in Florida is home to hundreds of species of native wildlife. It has also become the well-established home of the non-native Burmese python -- known to be a predator of ... > full story -
Pollution Forms an Invisible Barrier for Marine Life
March 10, 2011 — Researchers in Hawaii have examined the genetic structure of a common, non-harvested sea star using a spatially explicit model to test whether the largest sewage discharge and urban runoff sources ... > full story -
American Birds of Prey at Higher Risk of Poisoning from Pest Control Chemicals
March 10, 2011 — A new study using American kestrels, a surrogate test species for raptorial birds, suggests that they are at greater risk from poisoning from the rodenticide diphacinone than previous believed. The ... > full story -
Fossil Bird Study Describes Ripple Effect of Extinction in Animal Kingdom
March 7, 2011 — A new study demonstrates extinction's ripple effect through the animal kingdom, including how the demise of large mammals 20,000 years ago led to the disappearance of one species of ... > full story -
Unique Frog Helps Amphibian Conservation Efforts
March 7, 2011 — A tropical frog -- the only one of its kind in the world -- is providing conservationists with exclusive insights into the genetic make-up of its closest endangered ... > full story
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