On 14 February, nine National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers hopped onboard a vessel to start a 37-day expedition to explore an understudied area nestled in the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ...
Earth Sciences
May 22, 2020
0
2
The alpine ginger Roscoea tibetica Batalin is the most widespread and extensively phenotypic-variable herbaceous species in Roscoea in the Hengduan Mountains. Diverse phenotypic variations in one population and similar habitat ...
Plants & Animals
May 20, 2020
0
5
Understanding how the physical and biological world reacts to climate change is a challenge that science must contend with.
Evolution
May 7, 2020
1
5
A major advance in revealing the unknown plant diversity on planet Earth is made with a new monograph, published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PhytoKeys. The global-wide study, conducted by researchers at the ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 17, 2020
0
9
We do not have to look as far away as the glaciers in Norway, the fires in Australia or the floods in Brazil to see the effects of climate change. In Spain, changes are also starting to show and they will multiply in the ...
Environment
Feb 24, 2020
0
5
The climate change crisis has resulted in an emphasis on the role of broad-scale climate in controlling species distributions. A key metric for predicting the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems is the local ...
Evolution
Feb 17, 2020
0
12
A new paper in The Condor: Ornithological Applications, published by Oxford University Press, finds that models which use terrain features offer both practical and theoretical advantages in identifying climate resilient habitats ...
Ecology
Jan 16, 2020
0
5
Marine scientists in Plymouth have led a major study highlighting the effects of climate change on the plankton populations in UK seas.
Plants & Animals
Jan 15, 2020
0
7
A third of the species of tropical plants in Africa are potentially threatened with extinction, according to a preliminary estimate published Wednesday by the journal Science Advances.
Ecology
Nov 20, 2019
1
425
An international team of scientists, led by researchers at McMaster University, has solved a centuries-old mystery of 'Fraser's Clawed Frog', an unusual and elusive species found in West Africa.
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2019
0
27
