Researchers at Lincoln Park Zoo and Northern Illinois University have discovered a new culprit contributing to amphibian decline and altered mammal distribution throughout the Midwest region – the invasive plant European ...

Biology - Ecology

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

Ants play a variety of important roles in many ecosystems. As frequent visitors to flowers, they can benefit plants in their role as pollinators when they forage on sugar-rich nectar. However, a new study ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 24, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

We have been to the moon several times. Next time, we may go back for a considerable period. And concrete plans for a one-way ticket to Mars have already been forged. Food will have to be grown on location. ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 28, 2013 4.3 / 5 (7) 2

Shells that spent decades sitting ignored in a Welsh museum have shown scientists that climate change is seriously harming ecosystems around Antarctica.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jan 29, 2013 3.5 / 5 (11) 14 |

Stephan Winkler, isotope researcher at the University of Vienna, has identified the bomb-pulse of uranium-236 in corals from the Caribbean Sea for the first time. 236U was distributed world-wide in the period ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Dec 17, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Variations in the soil and stone beneath it are the biggest factor behind which trees grow where in the rainforests of the Congo basin, a new study has found.

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 06, 2012 not rated yet 1 |

According to the nebular hypothesis, star formation produces a gaseous protoplanetary disk around it, providing the environment and material for planet formation. Studying these systems can generate information ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Oct 04, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Forest carbon stocks in protected West African rainforests increased despite a 40-year drought, due to a dramatic shift in tree species composition.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 30, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Scientists have discovered a thriving population of Mediterranean earthworms in an urban farm in Dublin, Ireland.

Biology - Ecology

Jul 25, 2012 2.3 / 5 (3) 0 |

How species diversity is maintained is a fundamental question in biology. In a new study, a team of Indiana University biologists has shown for the first time that diversity is influenced on a spatial scale ...

Biology - Ecology

May 17, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 4 |

Scientists at Aarhus University have spearheaded research results that shed new light on the processes forming the composition of species assemblages in the tropics.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 23, 2012 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate scientists have discovered a new archive of historical sea temperatures. With the help of the skeleton of a sponge that belongs to the Monorhaphis chuni species and that lived in the ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 05, 2012 4.8 / 5 (4) 2 |

Dams and weirs have a stronger impact on the ecosystem of watercourses than was previously realized. Species diversity in the dammed area upstream of weirs shows a significant decline: the diversity of fish species is one-quarter ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 14, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history -- 250 million years ago -- ocean algae and bacteria rebounded so fast that they consumed virtually all the oxygen in the sea, slowing ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 25, 2011 4.8 / 5 (6) 1 |

The composition of some of our nation's forests may be quite different 200 to 400 years from today according to a recent study at the University of Illinois. The study found that temperature and photosynthetic active radiation ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 15, 2009 3.2 / 5 (5) 0