With the help of trees, microplastic-polluted soils could be remediated. For the first time, researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have shown that birch trees absorb microplastics ...
Ecology
Feb 21, 2022
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Effective conservation strategies are required to address accelerating extinction rates across the globe. In order to be effective, these strategies need to rely on scientific knowledge about ecology, distribution and population ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2022
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In two sets of procedures between October 2021 and February 2022 the BioRescue consortium created two new northern white embryos, bringing the total to 14. Oocytes (egg cells) were collected from northern white rhino Fatu ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2022
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A scientific team from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HUB) and the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (Leibniz-FMP) discovered a previously ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2022
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The chloride ion channel ASOR is found in almost all cells. But apart from its involvement in cell death, not much is known about its physiological role.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2022
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Hydroelectric turbines put fish at risk of severe injury during passage. To support an informed debate on the sustainability of hydropower, reliable data of turbine-induced fish mortality are pivotal. A team of researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2022
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Quantum mechanical predictions challenge intuitive human thinking developed through the way that we experience the everyday world around us.
Optics & Photonics
Jan 28, 2022
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Urbanization is a notable threat to bat populations all over the world, especially through artificial light and the reduction of habitat and food supply. If certain conditions are met, some spaces within metropolitan areas ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2022
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Lakes in alpine locations react sensitively to climate change. Researchers led by the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), and the Faculty of Geosciences at Southwest Jiaotong University in ...
Evolution
Jan 10, 2022
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Avoid or compete, eat or be eaten, exploit or cooperate—biotic communities are shaped by species interactions in many different ways. Urban environments represent a special case as human presence and influence may have ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2021
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