City sprawl and road development is increasingly fragmenting the habitats that many plant and animal species need to survive. Ecologists have long known than sustainable development requires attention to ecological connectivity—the ...
Ecology
Jul 6, 2021
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A few males are enough to fertilize all the females. The number of males therefore has little bearing on a population's growth. However, they are important for purging bad mutations from the population. This is shown by a ...
Evolution
Jun 28, 2021
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Wildlife ecologists study what drives animal behavior, and trying to figure it out is tricky. Not only are ecosystems incredibly complex, behaviors are driven by various internal and external factors and the simple observation ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2021
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The wolf corpse hanging from a road sign outside a small Croatian town warned that farmers had been pushed too far—attacks on their livestock were driving them to desperation.
Ecology
Jun 24, 2021
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A stranded beluga whale found dead in the mudflats near Potter Marsh on Tuesday will likely help scientists untangle more information about the critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga population.
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2021
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A study published today in Scientific Reports suggests that new health challenges may be emerging as a result of conservationists' success in pulling mountain gorillas back from the brink of extinction.
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2021
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The population of white sharks that call the Central California coast their primary home is holding steady at about 300 animals and shows some signs of growth, a new long-term study of the species has shown.
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2021
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We humans tend to regard incest as deeply disturbing. It's a strong social taboo, and it's underpinned by sound biological reasoning. Mixing genes with a non-relative is beneficial because it increases genetic diversity, ...
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2021
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The chemical compound glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide, can weaken the immune systems of insects, suggests a study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Glyphosate is the ...
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2021
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It isn't only myriads of currently unknown species that await discovery in the Amazon rainforests. As a new study by German scientists at the Ruhr-University (Bochum) and the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (Munich), ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 21, 2021
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