Cadmium is used in the production of fertilizers and batteries and currently pops up in a negative way as a water pollutant. Scientists of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center and the LOEWE Center for ...
Ecology
Nov 20, 2020
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In a study published today in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, Senckenberg scientist Mónica Solórzano-Kraemer defines specific time periods for the terms amber, copal, and resin. Together with researchers from the ...
Archaeology
Nov 16, 2020
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The prevailing theory until now suggests that regular gene flow through successful pairings between populations is the main barrier to their segregation into species. In recent years, however, theoretical and empirical work ...
Evolution
Nov 9, 2020
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Each autumn, migratory birds in Europe set off on long and arduous journeys to spend the winter in the warmer south. They are not alone as around 20 percent of all bird species worldwide are migratory, moving between separate ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 27, 2020
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"I have taken pains to verify this assertion, and have found it true that frogs, toads, and newts are absent from most oceanic islands"—thus states Charles Darwin in his well-known work "On the Origin of Species." For a ...
Ecology
Oct 9, 2020
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For the first time, Senckenberg scientist Mónica Solórzano-Kraemer, together with lead authors David Peris and Kathrin Janssen of the University of Bonn and additional colleagues from Spain and Norway, successfully extracted ...
Archaeology
Sep 29, 2020
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Discoveries from the early stages of owl evolution are exceedingly rare. An approximately 60-million-year-old leg bone is the oldest fossil that can be assigned to an owl. "Other owls from this time period are also only known ...
Archaeology
Jul 28, 2020
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Around 252 million years ago, the world experienced a mass extinction, killing ninety percent of all animal and plant species in the world's oceans. This event, called the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, at the end of the ...
Ecology
Jul 22, 2020
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Together with an international team, Senckenberg researchers published the results of a unique compilation of 161 biodiversity time series (over 15 to 91 years) covering 6,200 marine, terrestrial, and freshwater species from ...
Ecology
Jul 13, 2020
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Together with researchers from Angola and Germany, Senckenberg scientists conducted the first comprehensive survey of the amphibian and reptile fauna in the mountain ranges in Angola's Uíge province. The Serra do Pingano ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2020
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