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Up to 42% of insect behavioral experiments not reproducible across laboratories
If an experiment is repeated under similar conditions, the results should be the same. In reality, the situation is often different—scientists speak of a "reproducibility crisis," which affects different disciplines.
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2025
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The birds and the bees: Including bird data improves estimates of wild bee species
A study published in the journal PLOS One reveals that combining bird observation data with land cover information provides more accurate predictions of numbers of wild bee species—a metric called richness—than using ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2025
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Animal energy usage made visible through video
Energy scarcity is a central driver of animal behavior and evolution. The amazing diversity of life on this planet is a testament to the plethora of novel biological solutions to the problem of securing and maintaining energy. ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2025
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Sea creatures keep dying in California waters: Now researchers have an answer
Sea creatures keep showing up dead in California waters, and researchers may have an answer as to why.
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2025
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Some male mice fiercely guard females within their territories, while others seek out quick flings
In a comprehensive study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, researchers tracked 244 wild-derived male house mice—yes, the kind you'd find in barns or basements—over their entire lives, up ...
Evolution
Apr 25, 2025
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Empathic comforting varies more within bonobo and chimpanzee species than between them
Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees to comfort others in distress.
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2025
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Some shark bites may be 'survival instinct' rather than planned attacks, contrary to media portrayal
Sharks are often perceived as the ultimate beasts, an image largely imposed on them by the media. Yet, shark bites are rare—only around 100 or so happen every year, and just around 10% are fatal.
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2025
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Human threats outweigh natural factors in shaping deer populations across Atlantic Rainforest
A group of Brazilian researchers has, for the first time in the entire Atlantic Rainforest, estimated the population density of the five deer species of the biome. This allowed them to measure the main factors that influence ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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Study of 'spatial synchrony' using long-term data exposes ecological trends and could boost conservation, farming
Populations of animals and plants separated by even thousands of miles can rise and fall together driven by ecological factors, a phenomenon scientists call "spatial synchrony."
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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Identifying salt patches and marsh with field data and machine-learning algorithm
Salty soils are causing reduced crop density, lower yields and barren lands unable to sustain crop growth. Sea level rise, intense storm surges and the overextraction of groundwater are driving this increasing salinity in ...
Ecology
Apr 24, 2025
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Slowing the spread: Researchers offer recommendations for preventing invasive carp
New research from South Dakota State University's Department of Natural Resource Management examines how different states are stopping the spread of invasive carp.
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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Tick researchers identify new strain of Rickettsia bacteria that causes spotted fever infections in humans
In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a surprise finding: rabbit ticks harboring a new type of bacteria related to a group of pathogens that ...
Ecology
Apr 24, 2025
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Wild bonobos study reveals that females team up to maintain power in their societies
Biologically speaking, female and male bonobos have a weird relationship. First, there's the sex. It's the females who decide when and with whom they mate. They easily parry unwanted sexual advances—and the males know better ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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Analysis shows that tree diversity builds climate resilience and boosts economic return
In the face of mounting threats from climate change, mixed species forests have been called an "insurance policy" for UK forestry in a new literature review supported by DEFRA and Teagasc.
Ecology
Apr 24, 2025
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Climate change is now the leading threat to imperiled species, new study finds
Authors of an article in BioScience reveal that climate change has become the most pervasive threat to ESA-listed species, marking the first time that this driver has been identified to surpass other causes of biodiversity ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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Monkey database reveals shift toward open science
A database about monkey behavior reveals how science is evolving toward a more open, collaborative approach.
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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Court halts coyote killings on some of Nevada's public lands
A federal appeals court ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to partially halt its statewide program that kills off coyotes, mountain lions and other livestock predators until a more thorough environmental review is ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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Invasive weed threatens Southern California's deserts
Once thought resistant to invasion, regional deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan mustard. New research shows its spread is disrupting biodiversity and reducing the desert's ability to ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2025
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Video: Lifting the canopy on Earth's forests
ESA's state-of-the-art Biomass mission has been designed to shed new light on the health and dynamics of the world's forests, revealing how they are changing over time and, critically, enhancing our understanding of their ...
Ecology
Apr 23, 2025
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Elephant instead of wild boar? What could have been in Europe
Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study by the Sport Ecology research group at the University of Bayreuth that ...
Ecology
Apr 23, 2025
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