Hydrothermal vents host rare species at incredibly high density comparable to tropical rainforests or coral reefs. Forty years ago, the first descriptions of the ecosystems around these deep underwater heat funnels changed ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 23, 2019
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Preserving rare species for the sake of global biodiversity has long been the primary focus for conservationists.
Ecology
May 16, 2019
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Scientists at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa Department of Biology have developed a technique for measuring the amount of living coral on a reef by analyzing DNA in small samples of seawater. The new research by Patrick ...
Environment
Apr 17, 2019
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In two separate articles recently published in Zookeys and Asian Myrmecology, Dr. Benoit Guénard from the School of Biological Sciences of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and his team has expanded the knowledge on Hong ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2019
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Picture the scene: you're trekking through one of the remotest regions in steepest, starkest Kyrgyzstan, on the trail of a species so elusive that it might just as well be the stuff of legend. At the risk of stating the obvious, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2019
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Seismic lines—used to measure underground oil reserves in Northern Alberta—seem to be good for butterflies, including one rare species.
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2019
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A sunfish that lives south of the equator recently washed up on a Santa Barbara County beach, and scientists are at a loss as to how the giant creature got so off-course.
Ecology
Mar 1, 2019
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Skin cells taken from patients with a rare genetic disorder are up to ten times more sensitive to damage from ultraviolet A (AVA) radiation in laboratory tests, than those from a healthy population, according to new research ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 21, 2019
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Land conservation programs that have converted tens of thousands of acres of agricultural land in Illinois back to a more natural state appear to have helped some rare birds increase their populations to historic levels, ...
Ecology
Jan 23, 2019
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Mega-dams should not be built in lowland tropical forest regions due to the threat they pose to biodiversity and ecosystems, according to experts at the University of Stirling.
Ecology
Jan 8, 2019
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