A new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards, contradicting a host of recent studies that predict their widespread extinction in a rapidly warming ...

Biology - Ecology

May 17, 2013 4.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Seagrass along Moreton Bay will drastically decline as sea levels rise, a University of Queensland study has found. The study, published in international journal Global Change Biology this week, reveals that u ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 15, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

International research has suggested that many coral species won't survive beyond the end of this century, but marine biologists at Victoria University are offering an alternative scenario.

Biology - Ecology

May 07, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1

(Phys.org) —Biologists have developed a new approach to identify major threats to the aquatic habitats that support freshwater life in drier parts of Australia.

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Apr 26, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

More carbon dioxide is released from residential lawns than corn fields according to a new study. And much of the difference can likely be attributed to soil temperature. The data, from researchers at Elizabethtown ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 23, 2013 3.9 / 5 (8) 1

A new global-scale modeling study that takes into account nitrogen – a key nutrient for plants – estimates that carbon emissions from human activities on land were 40 percent higher in the 1990s than in studies that did ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 19, 2013 4.2 / 5 (5) 0

The world's biodiversity is currently in rapid decline, with human-mediated global change being a principal cause. Europe is no exception, and the Natura 2000 network provides an important conservation tool for biodiversity on a E ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 18, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

A new study of Antarctic clams reveals that age matters when it comes to adapting to the effects of climate change. The research provides new insight and understanding of the likely impact of predicted environmental change ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 18, 2013 4.3 / 5 (6) 7

Model calculations predict a sea level rise of about one meter by the end of this century and of up to five and a half meters by the year 2500. Until now there are few studies on the potential impacts of ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 09, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 1

Ocean acidification, which occurs as CO2 is absorbed by the world's oceans, is a source of concern for marine scientists worldwide. Studies on coral, mollusks, and other ocean denizens are helping to paint ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 02, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Warm nights might be more important than hot days in determining how species respond to climate change. "Rising minimum temperatures may be the best way to predict how climate change will a ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 23, 2013 3.4 / 5 (10) 4 |

Cryptic comments seem to have an ambiguous, obscure or hidden meaning. In biology, cryptic species are outwardly indistinguishable groups whose differences are hidden inside their genes.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 12, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 1 |

(Phys.org) —A team of Canadian researchers has found that anthropogenic noise (noise created by people that impacts other species) in urban areas leads to less songbird diversity. In their paper published ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 12, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

Changes to the temperature and chemistry of Earth's atmosphere are causing fundamental changes to the ocean, too. The water is getting warmer and more acidic, and those changes may reconfigure the microbial ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 18, 2013 4 / 5 (4) 8 |

Henry David Thoreau obsessively recorded the flowering time of plants around Concord, Mass., in the 1850s, while Japanese naturalists took keen note of the flowering time of cherry blossom trees for centuries before that. ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 12, 2013 2.7 / 5 (3) 0 |