Ecology Research News
May 21, 2024
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May 15, 2024 Access to gardens and citizen science projects at school can help promote pro-conservation behaviour among pupils, a new study ...
May 15, 2024 A new article has found that climate change is the most prominent threat to pollinators -- such as bumblebees, wasps, and butterflies -- who are essential for biodiversity conservation, crop yields and food security. The research suggests that many ...
May 15, 2024 Understanding how salt marsh grass stays healthy is of crucial ecological importance, and studying the ways bacteria interact with these plants is key. Thanks to recent advances in genomic ...
May 14, 2024 Grassland provides many services for humans, animals and nature, such as feed production, carbon storage and recreation. Researchers spent two years investigating permanent grassland, its utilization, soils and plant communities in order to quantify ...
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May 13, 2024 The researchers found that birds were more evolutionarily similar on smaller, more isolated islands than on larger, less remote places. The team had expected to find that forested areas had more ...
May 9, 2024 After a century of functional extinction on the Australian mainland, a Flat oyster reef has been successfully restored along a metropolitan Adelaide ...
May 9, 2024 New research has looked into the potential effects of increased rainfall in regions being earmarked for expansion of temperate rainforests. Amid ...
May 8, 2024 Freshwater bacteria with small genomes frequently undergo prolonged periods of adaptive stagnation. Based on genomic analyses of samples from European lakes, researchers uncovered specific ...
May 3, 2024 A new study shows stony coral tissue loss disease is causing drastic changes in the Caribbean's population of corals, which is sure to disrupt the ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Scientists describe a new mechanism impacting the phage-bacterial arms race, a nanosized epibiotic parasite, TM7x, which helps its host bacterium (a ...
Apr. 25, 2024 Researchers have published a comprehensive study on the invasion of lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea, highlighting a rapid spread and the potential ecological impacts. The research shows the ...
Apr. 25, 2024 In the boreal forest of Western Canada, researchers have considered that both changing climate and increased habitat alteration have enabled deer to push farther ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Researchers found that forests with higher trait diversity not only adapt better to climate change but may also thrive. The study unveiled how tree functional trait diversity plays a pivotal role in ...
Apr. 25, 2024 Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study. ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 19, 2024 What can be done when one threatened animal kills another? Scientists studying critically endangered lemurs in Madagascar confronted this difficult reality when they witnessed attacks on lemurs by ...
Apr. 20, 2024 Anticipating changes to ecosystems is often at best an educated guess, but what if there was a way to better tune into possible changes occurring? Researchers have discovered that the silent growth ...
Apr. 18, 2024 Animal and plant populations have been extensively studied, which has helped to understand ecosystem processes and evolutionary adaptations. However, this has not been the case with microbial ...
Apr. 17, 2024 During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb ...
Apr. 16, 2024 A new study shows that ocean acidification is changing the mix of microbes in coral reef systems, which can be used to assess ecosystem ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...
Apr. 12, 2024 Marine researchers have mapped the density of one of the most endangered large whale species worldwide, the North Atlantic right whale, using new data to help avoid right whales' harmful ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Traces of DNA in the stomachs of predatory snails give a team og geobiologists new insights into the ecology of ...
Apr. 10, 2024 Ant species living in Boulder's foothills have shifted their habitat over the last six decades, potentially affecting local ecosystems, suggests a new ...
Apr. 10, 2024 A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of ...
Apr. 9, 2024 Scientists from Macquarie University have come up with an innovative way to stop cane toads killing native wildlife by training goannas to avoid eating the deadly ...
Apr. 9, 2024 Fish and invertebrate animals are far more affected by warmer and more acidic seawater than was previously known. The big gain of the new method is that more details become known about effects of ...
Apr. 9, 2024 Through the ages, the presence of humans has increased the heterogeneity and complexity of ecosystems and has often had a positive effect on their ...
Apr. 5, 2024 The Common Loon, an icon of the northern wilderness, is under threat from climate change due to reduced water clarity, according to a new study. The study followed up an earlier paper that showed ...
Apr. 5, 2024 The study underscores the crucial role of microbes in maintaining coral reef health, akin to the human gut microbiome. Hurricanes and disease outbreaks affect coral reef water microbial communities, ...
Apr. 5, 2024 In a recent study, researchers found that 78% of the world's bird species do not thrive in the most modified human-dominated environments. These species are also most likely to have declining ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Researchers have shown that levels of anisakid worms -- a common marine parasite -- rose in two salmon species in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay over a 42-year period. The team discovered this by ...
Apr. 3, 2024 Until now, groundwater -- a critical water resource around the globe, especially in dry regions -- has been largely unstudied in its importance and role in sustaining ecosystems. New groundbreaking ...
Apr. 2, 2024 The oldest trees in the forest help to prevent the disappearance of endangered species in the natural environment, according to a new study. This is the case of the wolf lichen -- threatened ...
Apr. 1, 2024 In 2022 and 2023, biologists from research institutes in the UK and the Falkland Islands led two expeditions to South Georgia to study the impacts of invasive species on this cold and rugged ...
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- Ants in Colorado Are on the Move Due to Climate Change
- Deforestation Harms Biodiversity of the Amazon's Perfume-Loving Orchid Bees
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- 'Teacher Toads' Can Save Native Animals from Toxic Cane Toads
- Impact of Climate Change on Marine Life Much Bigger Than Previously Known
- Humans Can Increase Biodiversity, Archaeological Study Shows
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Common Loons Threatened by Declining Water Clarity
- eDNA Methods Give a Real-Time Look at Coral Reef Health
- Four in Five Bird Species Cannot Tolerate Intense Human Pressures
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- Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Species Diversity Is Directly Correlated With Productivity in Eastern U.S. Forests
- 'Winners and Losers' As Global Warming Forces Plants Uphill
Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Species Diversity Promotes Ecosystem Stability
- Forest, Stream Habitats Keep Energy Exchanges in Balance, Global Team Finds
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Scientists Weigh Up Current Status of Blue Whale Populations Around the World
- Monitoring and Measuring Biodiversity Require More Than Just Numbers; Scientists Advocate for Change
- Researchers Investigate How Freshwater Diatoms Stay in the Light
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- Reptile Roadkill Reveals New Threat to Endangered Lizard Species
- Loss of Nature Costs More Than Previously Estimated
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
- Microbes Impact Coral Bleaching Susceptibility
- Marine Algae Implants Could Boost Crop Yields
- Herbivores, Displaced by Ocean Warming, Threaten Subtropical Seagrass Meadows
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- Measuring Electrical Conductivity in Microorganisms, Approaching Understanding of Microbial Ecosystems
- Lake Ecosystems: Nitrogen Has Been Underestimated
- Genetic Research Revealed Several New Fern Species in Tropical America
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- Study Reveals Accelerated Soil Priming Under Climate Warming
- Study Finds Drought Fuels Invasive Species After Wildfires
- Creepy Crawlies Protect Apples When Flowers Are Planted on Farms
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
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- Side Effects of Wide Scale Forestation Could Reduce Carbon Removal Benefits by Up to a Third
- Mice Surprise: Researchers Discover New Native Species
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- 'The Future Is Fungal': New Research Finds That Fungi That Live in Healthy Plants Are Sensitive to Climate Change
- Nature's Checkup: Surveying Biodiversity With Environmental DNA Sequencing
- Spy-Satellite Images Offer Insights Into Historical Ecosystem Changes
- Giant New Snake Species Identified in the Amazon
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- Reforestation Programs Could Threaten Vast Area of Tropical Grasslands
- Big New Idea Introduced With the Help of Tiny Plankton
- Researchers Shed Light on River Resiliency to Flooding
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
- Cold-Water Coral Traps Itself on Mountains in the Deep Sea
- Is the Amazon Forest Approaching a Tipping Point?
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- How Kelp Forests Persisted Through the Large 2014-2016 Pacific Marine Heatwave
- Complex Tree Canopies Help Forests Recover from Moderate-Severity Disturbances
- Apex Predators Not a Quick Fix for Restoring Ecosystems
Monday, February 5, 2024
- Small but Mighty -- Study Highlights the Abundance and Importance of the Ocean's Tiniest Inhabitants
- How Food Availability Could Catalyze Cultural Transmission in Wild Orangutans
Friday, February 2, 2024
- Plant Groupings in Drylands Support Ecosystem Resilience
- Scammed! Animals 'led by the Nose' To Leave Plants Alone
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- Microplastics May Be Accumulating Rapidly in Endangered Galápagos Penguins' Food Web
- The Complexity of Forests Cannot Be Explained by Simple Mathematical Rules, Study Finds
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- Climate Change Threatens Global Forest Carbon Sequestration, Study Finds
- Pacific Kelp Forests Are Far Older That We Thought
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- Red Deer Populations in Europe: More Influenced by Humans Than by Wolves and Other Predators
- 'Carbon Vault' Peat Suffers Greatly from Drought
- Scientists Name the Most Common Tropical Tree Species
- In Hot Water: Coral Resilience in the Face of Climate Change
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- Conflict in Full Swing: Forest Bats Avoid Large Areas Around Fast-Moving Wind Turbines
- Male Southern Elephant Seals Are Picky Eaters
- The Choreography Connecting Kelp Forests to the Beach
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- Some Coral Species Might Be More Resilient to Climate Change Than Previously Thought
- Hotter Weather Caused by Climate Change Could Mean More Mosquitoesv
- 15 Most Pressing Issues for Conservation, Including Invertebrate Decline and Changing Marine Ecosystems
- Ecosystem Benefits to Humanity Expected to Decline by 9% by 2100