(Phys.org) —Researchers from our Biodiversity Lab have identified specific areas around the world where conservation efforts could best be targeted to safeguard inland-breeding waterbirds.

Biology - Ecology

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North America isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, yet a new inventory has uncovered nearly 4,600 wild relatives of crop plants in the United States, including close relatives of globally important ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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A new study on extinction risk has shown that proportions of plant and animal species being classified as threatened on national Red Lists are more closely related to socioeconomic pressure levels from the ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 16, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to reach the mouth of a small cave.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 10, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

A series of papers in scientific journals has established a general framework for the biogeographical evolution of palms.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 27, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Murdoch University researchers will be placing GPS tracking devices on six emus to track their movements and habits in jarrah forest at Avon National Park.

Biology - Ecology

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Governments agreed Tuesday to step up efforts to protect threatened tree species from illegal loggers amid warnings that criminal gangs are plundering the world's forests.

Space & Earth - Environment

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(Phys.org) —A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), revealed in a new study, for the first time, the presence of the pathogenic chytrid fungus ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 06, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Are plant-pollinator networks holding together as the insects and plants in the network are jostled by climate change and habitat loss?

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 28, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

For social animals such as schooling fish, the loss of their numbers to human activity could eventually threaten entire populations, according to a finding that such animals rely heavily on grouping to effectively navigate ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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Domestic cats in the United States kill up to 3.7 billion birds and as many as 20.7 billion mice, voles and other small mammals each year, biologists estimated on Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 29, 2013 3.8 / 5 (19) 228

Woodlands and grasslands that support rabbits and small rodents should be protected if we are to save the wildcat, say scientists.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 23, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Wildlife Conservation Society scientists have documented a thriving population of lowland tapirs – the strange forest and grassland-dwelling herbivore with the trunk-like snout – living in a network of ...

Biology - Ecology

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A team of researchers has found new evidence that the slipstream behind a moving vehicle blows seeds great distances, meaning some invasive plant species could thrive at the road side.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 18, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 3

Officials in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa have impounded more than 600 pieces of ivory, weighing two tonnes, officials said on Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

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