News tagged with ecology letters
Monarch butterflies use medicinal plants to treat offspring for disease: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Monarch butterflies appear to use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease, research by biologists at Emory University shows. Their findings were published online Oct. 6 in the ...
Oct 11, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (12) |
8
|
Future forests may soak up more carbon dioxide than previously believed
North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than researchers had previously anticipated.
Oct 13, 2011 |
4.5 / 5 (12) |
7
|
Nature parks can save species as climate changes
Retaining a network of wildlife conservation areas is vital in helping to save up to 90 per cent of bird species in Africa affected by climate change, according to scientists.
Jun 01, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (11) |
0
Toward resolving Darwin's 'abominable mystery'
What, in nature, drives the incredible diversity of flowers? This question has sparked debate since Darwin described flower diversification as an 'abominable mystery.' The answer has become a lot clearer, ...
Sep 16, 2010 |
4 / 5 (10) |
5
|
Plant communication: Sagebrush engage in self-recognition and warn of danger
"To thine own self be true" may take on a new meaning—not with people or animal behavior but with plant behavior.
Jun 19, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (8) |
4
Scientists identify nature's insect repellents
In the battle between insect predators and their prey, chemical signals called kairomones serve as an early-warning system. Pervasively emitted by the predators, the compounds are detected by their prey, and can even trigger ...
Jul 16, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (8) |
1
|
Darwin's mystery explained
The appearance of many species of flowering plants on Earth, and especially their relatively rapid dissemination during the Cretaceous (approximately 100 million years ago) can be attributed to their capacity to transform ...
Jul 14, 2009 |
4 / 5 (9) |
15
Coral reefs may start dissolving when atmospheric CO2 doubles
Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting effects on ocean water are making it increasingly difficult for coral reefs to grow, say scientists. A study to be published online March 13, 2009 in ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 09, 2009 |
3.2 / 5 (11) |
8
New study supports Darwin's hypothesis on competition between species
A new study provides support for Darwin's hypothesis that the struggle for existence is stronger between more closely related species than those distantly related. While ecologists generally accept the premise, ...
Jun 14, 2011 |
5 / 5 (6) |
27
|
Stranglers of the tropics -- and beyond
Kudzu, the plant scourge of the U.S. Southeast. The long tendrils of this woody vine, or liana, are on the move north with a warming climate.
Mar 25, 2011 |
4.2 / 5 (5) |
6
|
Climate change may spell demise of key salt marsh constituent
Global warming may exact a toll on salt marshes in New England, but new research shows that one key constituent of marshes may be especially endangered.
Jul 13, 2009 |
3 / 5 (6) |
0
Paper offers new insights into predator-prey relationships
(PhysOrg.com) -- For those old enough to remember Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom” television series, the dynamics of predator-prey relationships seemed clear enough: predators thinned out prey ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
5 / 5 (3) |
1
|
'McDonalization' of frogs: Frog fungus hammering biodiversity of communities
Sometimes to see something properly, you have to stand farther back. This is true of Chuck Close portraits where a patchwork of many small faces changes into one giant face as you back away.
Sep 22, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Could Siberian volcanism have caused the Earth's largest extinction event?
Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian geologic period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth's history. Although the cause ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 09, 2012 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
1
|
Extinctions, loss of habitat harm evolutionary diversity
A mathematically driven evolutionary snapshot of woody plants in four similar climates around the world has given scientists a fresh perspective on genetic diversity and threats posed by both extinctions and ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
1
|
Ecology Letters
Ecology Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and is known for its rapid publication of the latest groundbreaking ecological research. Marcel Holyoak, of University of California Davis, took over as Editor-in-Chief from Michael Hochberg in 2008.
For more information about Ecology Letters, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
