Plants use underground fungal networks to warn their neighbours of aphid attack, UK scientists have discovered.

Biology - Ecology

May 10, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

In the first study of its type in Canada, new research has shown caribou have a role to play in climate warming in the arctic. Despite declining herd numbers, caribou grazing is controlling plant growth in ...

Biology - Ecology

May 01, 2013 2 / 5 (1) 0

In the fall of 2010, Hoi-Ying Holman of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was approached by an international team researching a mysterious microbial community ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 22, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

In Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", the world had to wait ten million years to learn the question to the ultimate answer.  This might be justifiable for a question of such staggering importance ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

Josh Miller likes to call himself a conservation paleobiologist. The label makes sense when he explains how he uses bones as up-to-last-season information on contemporary animal populations.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 10, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—New research from scientists at the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University suggests that the loss of carbon from soils in response to climate change could be accelerated by unexpected ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 27, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Do birds change their tune in response to urban noise? It depends on the bird species, according to Dr. Alejandro Ariel Ríos-Chelén from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and colleagues. Their work shows that ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 20, 2012 not rated yet 0

Global warming is well-known for its effect on the climate. But it also poses a threat to the world's ecosystems. University of Toronto researcher Benjamin Gilbert wants to know more about that process.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 25, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1

Among his many qualities, the pioneering wildlife ecologist Aldo Leopold was a meticulous taker of field notes.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 18, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org) -- Predatory beetles can detect the unique alarm signal released by ants that are under attack by parasitic flies, and the beetles use those overheard conversations to guide their search for safe ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 03, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0 |

Mathematicians at the University of York in the UK and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand say they have disproved a widely accepted theory underpinning the operation of complex networks of interactions in the natural ...

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Jun 20, 2012 5 / 5 (10) 0 |

(Phys.org) -- The results of two separate but complementary analyses on 400 samples of Hanford Site groundwater appeared together in the journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. The studies ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 11, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 0

To better predict the future, Jack Williams is looking to the past.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 20, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Another attractive theory falls foul of the facts. A census of trees in rainforests on three continents has confirmed that competition plays a central role in structuring communities. This contradicts the so-called neutral ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 26, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 8 |

Nitrogen is both an essential nutrient and a pollutant, a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion and a fertilizer that feeds billions, a benefit and a hazard, depending on form, location, and quantity. Agriculture, industry ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 17, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0