A new Flinders University study has found why Southeast Asian seas produce more fish than the world's largest coastal upwelling regions combined.
Earth Sciences
Jan 20, 2023
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Spring is the sweet spot for breeding songbirds in California's Central Valley—not too hot, not too wet. But climate change models indicate the region will experience more rainfall during the breeding season, and days of ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
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Climate change has undisputable global effects on ecosystems and ecological community compositions, but why certain communities are better able to resist the effects of climate change than others remains unclear. In a recent ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
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Dogs walked every day by their owners are less aggressive. Dogs owned by women bark less at strangers. Heavier dogs tend to be less disobedient than lighter pets. Pugs, Bulldogs, Shih Tzus and other short-snouted breeds may ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 12, 2023
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Finland has analyzed test data to investigate how breeds differed in different cognitive and behavioral traits. In their paper published in Scientific Reports, ...
Climate change will reshape ecosystems worldwide through two types of climate events: short-term, extreme events—like a heat wave—and long-term changes, like a shift in ocean currents. Ecologists call the short-term events ...
Ecology
Jan 9, 2023
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In 1962, renowned American conservationist Rachel Carson wrote a book entitled "Silent Spring" after she noticed the birdsong she used to wake up to as a child had been thinning. Its eventual absence had become almost deafening.
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2023
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Genetic manipulation has come a long way.
Biotechnology
Jan 6, 2023
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A ground-breaking twist to the CRISPR tool—aka "genetic scissors"—is being put to use to edit plant genomes by scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, signaling a methodology change. The ...
Biotechnology
Jan 3, 2023
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A small percentage of cows will experience problems when calving and breeders would like to know which cows are at risk. Using the vast dataset of the Dutch cattle breeding company CRV, computer scientists at the University ...
Veterinary medicine
Dec 23, 2022
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