Posts Tagged ‘biodiversity’
Are Europe’s wild bees bouncing back?
U. LEEDS (UK) — Declines in the biodiversity of pollinating insects and wild plants in Britain, Belgium, and the Netherlands have slowed in recent years. Continue…
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 14:46 - 0 Comments
Earth & Environment - May 20, 2013 12:14 - 2 Comments
Lack of biodiversity could topple fisheries
U. YORK (UK) — The consequences of overfishing have led fisheries to rely on a handful of highly valuable shellfish—but new research shows this approach is extremely risky. (more…)
Earth & Environment - May 14, 2013 11:36 - 1 Comment
Plants do better far away from close relatives
U. TORONTO (CAN) — Charles Darwin got it right. Plant species that share environments with those that are distantly related are more productive. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Mar 22, 2013 11:32 - 3 Comments
Biodiversity doesn’t lower disease risk for people
STANFORD (US) — A new analysis pokes holes in a widely accepted theory that connects biodiversity abundance with a reduced disease risk for people. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 12, 2013 16:28 - 0 Comments
Teeny ‘cryptic’ clams hide in plain sight
U. MICHIGAN (US) — Marine biologists have identified three cryptic species of tiny clams, long believed to be members of the same species, which have been hiding in plain view along the rocky shores of southern Australia for millions of years. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Feb 14, 2013 14:38 - 1 Comment
To survive, plants actively engineer marsh
DUKE (US) — Marsh plants, far from being passive wallflowers, are “secret gardeners” that actively engineer their landscape to increase their species’ odds of survival. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Feb 13, 2013 18:30 - 0 Comments
Variety of picky fish needed for healthy reefs
GEORGIA TECH (US) — Because certain fish species only eat certain seaweeds that can be harmful to corals, maintaining a diverse fish population is critical to reef survival, a new study shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 13, 2013 13:09 - 0 Comments
Ice age extinctions led to hardier plants
U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — When it comes to biodiversity, extinctions have a bigger impact than evolution, say researchers who looked at Australian plant species wiped out by the ice ages. (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 8, 2013 17:14 - 0 Comments
Christianity influences meat taboos in Amazon
STANFORD (US) — Christianity has changed the hunting habits and diets of native Amazonians, which could alter biodiversity in the region. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jan 30, 2013 11:06 - 0 Comments
Reef was crawling with crabs when it died
U. FLORIDA (US) — Researchers have found an amazingly diverse record of 100-million-year-old crustaceans on a fossil reef in northern Spain. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jan 14, 2013 11:42 - 1 Comment
‘Sea of exotics’ isolates native plants
U. TORONTO (CAN) — Given time, invading plants will most likely eliminate native species growing in the wild, new research shows. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Dec 27, 2012 17:03 - 1 Comment
Amazon’s diversity loss shows up in the soil
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Researchers worry that a loss of genetic variation in microbial communities in the Amazon’s converted agricultural land could negatively affect the entire ecosystem. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 27, 2012 15:29 - 1 Comment
City bees hit the road to hunt for flowers
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN / UC BERKELEY (US) — Ground-nesting bumblebees fare best in areas with more flower diversity and less pavement, research shows. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Dec 21, 2012 7:24 - 0 Comments
Biodiversity map gets modern update
MCGILL (CAN) — A new map splits the globe into 11 large realms based on evolutionary and geographical information for all known mammals, birds, and amphibians—about 20,000 species. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 4, 2012 17:13 - 0 Comments
‘Unique’ butterfly species found in Jamaica
U. FLORIDA (US) — Researchers have discovered a new butterfly that’s about the size of a thumbnail in Jamaica’s last remaining wilderness. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 19, 2012 11:10 - 0 Comments
More than 450K marine species unknown
U. FLORIDA (US) — There are about 226,000 described marine species in the world but two to three times as many that remain undescribed, research suggests. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 31, 2012 15:55 - 1 Comment
Family tree links all 10,000 types of birds
YALE (US) / U. SHEFFIELD (UK) — The most comprehensive family tree for birds yet connects all living bird species—nearly 10,000 in total—and reveals surprising new details about their origins. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 13, 2012 15:53 - 0 Comments
Acidity, algae hit shellfish with one-two punch
STANFORD (US) — Hard-shelled marine creatures that are threatened by the ocean’s ongoing acidification may also face additional pressure from other species. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 13, 2012 11:34 - 7 Comments
New monkey species has bright blue bottom
YALE (US) — Scientists have found a new monkey species in remote central Congo, where bush meat hunting and habitat loss threaten their survival. (more…)
