West African lions are a critically endangered subpopulation, with an estimated 400 remaining and strong evidence of ongoing declines.
Plants & Animals
Mar 30, 2020
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Ecologists in England and Scotland, collaborating with ecologists Christopher Sutherland and Joseph Drake at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, report this week on a new method of identifying an "entire community of ...
Ecology
Mar 12, 2020
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378
Pollinating insects could thrive if improvements are made to agri-environment schemes across Europe, according to a new collaborative study involving scientists from Trinity.
Ecology
Feb 18, 2020
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If you feed the birds in your backyard, you may be doing more than just making sure they have a source of food: you may be helping baby birds give parasites the boot.
Ecology
Feb 4, 2020
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When the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) arrived in the United States in the 1980s, it took the invasive blood-sucker only one year to spread from Houston to St. Louis. New research from Washington University in St. ...
Ecology
Aug 21, 2019
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More "intensive" beekeeping does not raise the risk of diseases that harm or kill the insects, new research suggests.
Ecology
Jul 17, 2019
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Bilbies vs. feral cats—a Hunger Games-style experiment conducted in a South Australian desert has produced fascinating results with important implications for the conservation of our endangered species.
Ecology
May 15, 2019
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119
As growth makes neighborhoods more crowded for humans, it's also concentrating carnivores like bobcats and coyotes into the remaining green spaces, leading them to interact with each other more frequently than they do in ...
Ecology
Apr 16, 2019
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111
Food safety regulations increasingly pressure growers to remove hedgerows, ponds and other natural habitats from farms to keep out pathogen-carrying wildlife and livestock. Yet, this could come at the cost of biodiversity.
Ecology
Mar 19, 2019
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453
A simple body-shape analysis can reveal what part of the ocean a fish came from, according to a new study from Smithsonian scientists working to develop better tools for managing small-scale fisheries. The researchers found ...
Ecology
Jul 25, 2018
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