How a lethal fungus is shrinking living space for Australia's frogs
In 1993, frogs were found dying en masse in Far North Queensland. When scientists analyzed their bodies, they found something weird. Their small bodies were covered in spores.
In 1993, frogs were found dying en masse in Far North Queensland. When scientists analyzed their bodies, they found something weird. Their small bodies were covered in spores.
Plants & Animals
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Conventional wisdom among ecologists holds that the more species there are inhabiting an ecosystem, the less vulnerable any one species will be to a threat like a parasite.
Plants & Animals
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An international team of ecologists, life scientists, conservationists and biologists has found that humans prey on approximately one-third of all vertebrate species in existence. In their study, reported in the journal Communications ...
A new international study has found that amphibians and reptiles inhabiting the world's nature reserves, or Protected Areas (PAs), will be better protected against climate change than species found outside these areas, but ...
Plants & Animals
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A trained detection dog was highly accurate at finding great crested newts underground or at a distance, which might aid conservation efforts for this highly-endangered species, according to a study published June 7, 2023, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 7, 2023
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For the past 40 years, a devastating fungal disease has been ravaging frog populations around the world, wiping out 90 species. Unlike the global COVID-19 pandemic, you may not even be aware of this "panzootic"—a pandemic ...
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2023
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The Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Center at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama partnered with the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in India to develop and validate a new test ...
Ecology
May 24, 2023
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Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, charring everything in their paths. But a study published in the journal Ecology Letters reminds us that wildfires are also ...
Ecology
Apr 13, 2023
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Whether it occurs through the discharge of nutrients from agricultural operations into local streams or the discardment of plastic into the ocean, water pollution can negatively impact both human and environmental health. ...
Ecology
Apr 12, 2023
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More than 85% of the world's bird, mammal, and amphibian species live in mountains, particularly in forest habitats, but researchers report in the journal One Earth on March 17 that these forests are disappearing at an accelerating ...
Environment
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