As native birds continue to lose their homes due to the spread of the Australia's cities, scientists are urging city planners and householders to help save them by planting more Australian trees.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 13, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

According to a paper published in the latest issue of Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2012 (4), Dr. ZHANG Jiangyong, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, descri ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 06, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Brazil's Salto Morato Nature Preserve is a haven for scientists studying the dwindling Atlantic rainforest, an area less renowned than the Amazon forest but just as biologically diverse and equally threatened ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 03, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The world's first family tree linking all living bids and revealing when and where they evolved and diversified since dinosaurs walked the earth has been created by scientists from the University of Sheffield.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 31, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(Phys.org)—In male songbirds of the temperate zone, the concentration of sex hormones is rising in spring, which leads to an increase in song activity during the breeding season. In the tropics, there has ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 31, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

New Caledonian crows can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions, a study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals. 

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 25, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 4 |

(Phys.org)—Rats' keen sense of smell can be exploited to dramatically reduce their attacks on native birds, researchers from the University of Sydney have shown. The technique could be adapted to protect ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 17, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

A plant that is unremarkable in one environment becomes an invasive species in another, pushing through house foundations and sprouting up through roads. A house sparrow that's a perfectly charming resident ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 02, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 1

The critically endangered Puerto Rican Parrot (Amazona vittata) is the only surviving parrot species native to the United States. A genomic sequencing project, funded by community donations, has published today, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 28, 2012 not rated yet 0

By outfitting two British Columbia subspecies of Swainson's thrushes with penny-sized, state-of-the-art geolocators, University of British Columbia researchers have been able to map their wildly divergent migration routes ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 25, 2012 not rated yet 1 |

(Phys.org)—Over the past 60 years, areas that have a climate suitable for certain Australian bird species have shifted much faster than previously thought, and not exactly in the expected direction.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 21, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Malaria has been found in birds in parts of Alaska, and global climate change will drive it even farther north, according to a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 19, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 0

In one of the first studies to examine how the loss of forest birds is effecting Guam's island ecosystem, biologists from Rice University, the University of Washington and the University of Guam found that ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 13, 2012 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

Researchers from the School of Biosciences at the Danau Girang Field Centre (DGFC) in Sabah, Malaysia have completed 18 months of a camera trapping project in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 13, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0

A remote park in northwest Bolivia may be the most biologically diverse place on earth, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which helped put together a comprehensive list of species found ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 12, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0