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Stark Warning Issued for the Irish Hare
March 29, 2011 — Researchers have issued a stark warning about the future of the Irish hare and the threat it faces from the European 'brown' hare, which has set up home in Mid-Ulster and West Tyrone. Biologists have ... > full story -
Remarkable Diversity of Lichen Species Found in Florida State Park
March 24, 2011 — Florida's Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park appears to be have more lichen biodiversity in a relatively small space than anywhere else in North America, according to a recent census. Botanists ... > full story -
Unknown Animals Nearly Invisible Yet There
March 22, 2011 — Bryozoans (moss animals) are a group of aquatic invertebrates that are found in great variety throughout the world, with well over 100 species in Sweden alone. Yet little is known about them. ... > full story -
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
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