Ecology Research News
April 23, 2024
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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 of non-native invasive plants can affect the ...
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 another vulnerable species, a carnivore called a ...
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 carbon ...
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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 exposure to ...
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 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, ...
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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 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 ...
Mar. 26, 2024 While Wyoming is home to some of North America's most abundant populations of pronghorn that have largely been stable in recent years, a new analysis shows that many herds are experiencing ...
Mar. 25, 2024 When officials make tough calls on which areas to prioritize for conservation, biodiversity is often their top consideration. But there are several types of diversity, and not all of them overlap ...
Mar. 25, 2024 Some plant species will 'win' and others will 'lose' as global warming forces them to move uphill, new research ...
Mar. 21, 2024 What maintains stability within an ecosystem and prevents a single best competitor from displacing other species from a community? Does ecosystem stability depend upon the presence of a wide variety ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Forests and streams are separate but linked ecosystems, existing side by side, with energy and nutrients crossing their porous borders and flowing back and forth between them. For example, leaves ...
Mar. 20, 2024 The largest living animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) which averages about 27 meters in length, has slowly recovered from whaling only to face the rising challenges of global warming, ...
Monitoring and Measuring Biodiversity Require More Than Just Numbers; Scientists Advocate for Change
Mar. 20, 2024 Scientists advocate for change to promote standardized practices in the field -- a practice that has been missing from the ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Researchers sought to understand how diatoms -- microscopic, photosynthetic algae that make up an estimated 20 percent of global carbon sequestration and oxygen production -- are able to bloom in an ...
Mar. 19, 2024 A curious aspect of tree frogs is that they often lay their eggs on the ground where the risk of predation by natural enemies is greater than in the trees where they live. A research team suggested ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Researchers have used a series of artificial stream channels to mimic the behavior of headwater creeks under future climate change scenarios. They found that drier conditions shifted the life cycles ...
Mar. 15, 2024 Acoustic recordings of a colony of little auks reveal their nocturnal activities and offer valuable monitoring means for avian biology in the ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Marine heat waves in the northeast Pacific Ocean create ongoing and complex disruptions of the ocean food web that may benefit some species but threaten the future of many others, a new study has ...
Mar. 12, 2024 Rainforest seedlings are more likely to survive in natural forests than in places where logging has happened -- even if tree restoration projects have taken place, new research ...
Mar. 11, 2024 A Halloween toy was among hundreds of plastic items found in the guts of dead sea turtles in the Mediterranean, a new study ...
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Common Loons Threatened by Declining Water Clarity
- Four in Five Bird Species Cannot Tolerate Intense Human Pressures
Thursday, April 4, 2024
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
- 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
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Thursday, March 7, 2024
- 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
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
- 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
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Side Effects of Wide Scale Forestation Could Reduce Carbon Removal Benefits by Up to a Third
- Mice Surprise: Researchers Discover New Native Species
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- '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
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- 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?
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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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
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
- Microplastics May Be Accumulating Rapidly in Endangered Galápagos Penguins' Food Web
- The Complexity of Forests Cannot Be Explained by Simple Mathematical Rules, Study Finds
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
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Thursday, January 18, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
- Climate Change Threatens Global Forest Carbon Sequestration, Study Finds
- Pacific Kelp Forests Are Far Older That We Thought
Friday, January 12, 2024
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
- 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
Monday, January 8, 2024
Thursday, January 4, 2024
- 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
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Thursday, December 21, 2023
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Monday, December 18, 2023
- 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
Thursday, December 14, 2023
- Move Over Blitzen: Geese Outpace Reindeer Impacts on Arctic Ecosystems
- AI Provides More Accurate Analysis of Prehistoric and Modern Animals, Painting Picture of Ancient World
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Monday, December 11, 2023
- Underwater Architects: The 'burrowing Effect' Of Foraminifera on Marine Environments
- Have Researchers Found the Missing Link That Explains the Mysterious Phenomenon Known as Fairy Circles?
Friday, December 8, 2023
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
- Feathered Friends Can Become Unlikely Helpers for Tropical Coral Reefs Facing Climate Change Threat
- Greenhouse Gases in Oceans Are Altered by Climate Change Impact on Microbes
Monday, December 4, 2023
- Deep Sea Sensor Reveals That Corals Produce Reactive Oxygen Species
- Crocodile Family Tree Mapped: New Light Shed on Croc Evolution
- Decoding Flavonoid Metabolism: A Closer Look at Plant-Based Diets