Ensuring sufficient global food production and supply using sustainable methods is one of the most significant challenges we face this century.
Ecology
Jul 13, 2022
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When it comes to mating wood frogs, it turns out that sound matters.
Plants & Animals
Apr 20, 2022
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In a new paper published in Ecology Letters, Michigan State University evolutionary biologist Janette Boughman shows that the process of choosing a mate could be very important to the survival of the species. To do this, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2022
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Vector-borne diseases (VBDs), such as plague, malaria and yellow fever, have significantly shaped society and culture, according to an international team of researchers. In a study published in Ecology Letters on Jan. 27, ...
Social Sciences
Feb 3, 2021
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The Janzen–Connell (J-C) hypothesis suggests that specialized natural enemies cause distance‐or density‐dependent mortality among host plants and is regarded as an important mechanism for species coexistence. However, ...
Ecology
Jan 12, 2021
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Scientists at Linköping University, Sweden, have simulated what happens in ecosystems when the habitats of different species disappear. When plants and animals lose their habitats, predator species at the top of the food ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2020
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Drastic interventions in an ecosystem, like deciding whether to eradicate an unwanted species, can have unforeseen, and sometimes even undesirable, consequences on the rest of the species present in that ecosystem.
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2020
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Diet is an important factor influencing the survival and evolution of all species. Many studies have shown that when species evolve from being a predator or insectivore to being a vegetarian, the rate at which new species ...
Ecology
Jan 18, 2018
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Spawning salmon that die after migrating home actually do their offspring a favor.
Ecology
Dec 15, 2017
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Pythons and boas are distantly related, but new research indicates that they have evolved convergent physical characteristics when living in similar habitats—meaning that they evolved similar solutions to similar problems.
Ecology
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Ecology Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and is known for its rapid publication of the latest groundbreaking ecological research. Marcel Holyoak, of University of California Davis, took over as Editor-in-Chief from Michael Hochberg in 2008.
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