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World's largest wildlife crossing reaches critical milestone
Monday was momentous for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing although it still looked like a bridge to nowhere from the 101 Freeway, where more than 300,000 vehicles stream endlessly every day.
Plants & Animals
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Sensing sickness: Study supports new method for boosting bee health
Beekeepers in the United States lost more than 55% of managed colonies last year—the highest loss rate since the Apiary Inspectors of America began determining them in 2011.
Plants & Animals
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Widely used fungicide poses threat to sparrow chicks
A French team coordinated by a scientist at CNRS highlights the harmful impact on sparrow reproduction of chronic exposure to tebuconazole, one of the most widely used fungicides in agriculture in Europe. These findings, ...
Plants & Animals
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Making moves and hitting the breaks: Owl journeys surprise researchers in western Montana
Researchers have tracked 89 northern saw-whet owls (Aegolius acadicus) along a migration corridor in Western Montana, underscoring the efficacy of telemetry studies for detailed investigations into the movements of birds.
Plants & Animals
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Bees actively adjust flower choice based on color and distance: Updating 'flower constancy' beyond Darwin's theory
Pollinating insects such as bumblebees often repeatedly visit the same type of flower, even when a variety of flowers bloom nearby. This behavior is known as "flower constancy." Darwin speculated that flower constancy was ...
Plants & Animals
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Urbanization reshapes soil microbes: Bacteria adapt, fungi resist
Urbanization is reshaping soil microbial communities worldwide, driving an unexpected homogenization of bacterial populations while fungal communities remain more resistant to change.
Ecology
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Newborn warty birch caterpillars defend the world's smallest territory
Some creatures defend territories extending over several kilometers, but when Jayne Yack (Carleton University, Canada) encountered miniature newborn warty birch caterpillars (Falcaria bilineata), she wondered if she might ...
Plants & Animals
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Mysterious falcon decline: American Kestrel juveniles thrive amid population drop
North America's smallest falcon, the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), has declined across the continent since the 1970s, yet the causes continue to stump raptor biologists. A new study published in the Journal of Raptor ...
Plants & Animals
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From trading nutrients to storing carbon: Five things you didn't know about our underground fungi
If you're walking outdoors, chances are something remarkable is happening under your feet. Vast fungal networks are silently working to keep ecosystems alive.
Plants & Animals
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Here's why border fences are bad for wildlife
International border barriers everywhere are harming wildlife by bisecting their habitats, disrupting their hunting and collecting patterns and preventing them from commingling. In some cases, the borders are causing so much ...
Ecology
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Scientists consider cross-breeding to save Australia's orange-bellied parrot from extinction
A team of environmental scientists at the University of Sydney, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of Copenhagen, are pondering possible ways to save the extremely endangered orange-bellied parrot. In their ...
Deep-dive dinners are the norm for tuna and swordfish, oceanographers find
How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean's top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some surprisingly long-distance dives.
Plants & Animals
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First layers of soil to be laid on 101 Freeway wildlife crossing in California, the world's largest
The wildlife crossing designed to help mountain lions, deer, bobcats and other creatures safely travel over the 101 Freeway between the Simi Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains will reach a major milestone on Monday, as ...
Plants & Animals
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$5 billion proposal for salmon restoration aimed at addressing tribal lawsuit
State lawmakers have revealed a proposal that would authorize special bonds to raise an additional $5 billion for salmon recovery projects stemming from the state's long-running tribal fishing rights lawsuit.
Ecology
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Biomolecules reveal composition of lake phytoplankton community
Clean and safe lake water is an important part of the Finnish identity. In recent decades, interest in the condition of lake waters has increased. Land use and climate change are creating new challenges for maintaining water ...
Ecology
Mar 31, 2025
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Biomechanical 'size matching' explains floral isolation in bumblebee-pollinated elephant-nose flowers
Buzz pollination—a process in which bees extract pollen by vibrating flowers—occurs in more than 20,000 plant species. Among the most specialized examples are the wildflowers of the Pedicularis genus (Orobanchaceae), ...
Evolution
Mar 31, 2025
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Mountaintops contain many diverse clusters of butterfly species, but climate change may turn habitats into traps
A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, mountain habitats from refuges into traps.
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2025
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Bats' echolocation strategy: How dense colonies avoid mid-air collisions
Aya Goldshtein, Omer Mazar, and Yossi Yovel have spent many evenings standing outside bat caves. Even so, seeing thousands of bats erupting out of a cave and flapping into the night, sometimes in densities so high that they ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2025
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Microplastics found in the reproductive system of sea turtles
University of Manchester scientists have discovered significant concentrations of microplastics in the male reproductive system of sea turtles.
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2025
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City trees respond to higher temperatures differently than those in forests, potentially masking climate impacts
It's tricky to predict precisely what the impacts of climate change will be, given the many variables involved. To predict the impacts of a warmer world on plant life, some researchers look at urban "heat islands," where, ...
Ecology
Mar 31, 2025
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