In a frozen lake in Quebec, tiny red creatures zip about under the ice. Guillaume Grosbois and Milla Rautio, researchers at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Québec, Canada report the discovery of active life ...
Ecology
Dec 19, 2017
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Parents' choices about when to breed have lifelong consequences for offspring. For the sixbar wrasse, the flexibility of babies to delay their critical swim towards adulthood frees adults to spawn more often, say ecologists ...
Ecology
Dec 18, 2017
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While a little added stress may be helpful to flee a dangerous situation, or to meet an approaching deadline, it's no secret that prolonged exposure to the stress hormone cortisol is linked to health problems. So, what effects ...
Ecology
Dec 6, 2017
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The mysterious flowers of Aspidistra elatior are found on the southern Japanese island of Kuroshima. Until recently, scientists thought that A. elatior has the most unusual pollination ecology among all flowering plants, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2017
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Monash scientists have uncovered new and surprising discoveries about how organisms can regulate energy use when their numbers increase.
Ecology
Nov 13, 2017
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"You are what you eat" might give way to "you are when you eat," based on a new study tracking shifts in Hawaiian bird abundance, breeding and molting based on climate-related changes to native vegetation.
Ecology
Nov 9, 2017
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With climate change, Mount Rainier floral communities could 'reassemble' with new species relationships, interactions
Ecology
Nov 7, 2017
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Some plants behave like the mythical monster Hydra: Cut off their heads and they grow back, bigger and better than before. A new study finds that these "overcompensators," as they are called, also augment their defensive ...
Ecology
Oct 11, 2017
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Survival of the fittest is a fundamental concept in Darwin's theory of natural selection which drives evolution.
Ecology
Oct 2, 2017
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In every animal community, several species in the same group often share habitats. An international team including scientists from Catalonia in Spain has created the largest public-access database on the cohabitation ants. ...
Ecology
Sep 29, 2017
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