Biodiversity

SIOP fellow Michele Gelfand elected to American Academy of Arts and SciencesCredit: SIOP Michele J. Gelfand, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Maryland, is part of an illustrious group…

International research team including University of Göttingen analyses tree regrowth across Latin AmericaCredit: Dylan Craven Tropical forests are being deforested at an alarming rate to make way for agriculture and…

Modern weapons, commercial hunting, fragmented landscapes impacting local subsistence hunters in Neotropical rain forestsCredit: Galo Zapata-Rios/WCS Scientists with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito and WCS Ecuador Program…

Researchers at the Smithsonian Institute have proposed a 'demographic safe space' for Asian elephants, to improve conservation of these and other large, slow-breeding animalsMother and calf. Conservation decisions based on population…

Journal of Applied Ecology: Adjusting for generation time errors yields a more accurate view of extinction timelinesCredit: Johanna Staerk et al. (2019) Accurately predicting whether, and when, a species may go extinct has never been more…

Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS Researchers reviewed the conservation priorities for the 31 species of tenrec - a poorly understood family of small mammals superficially resembling hedgehogs, found only on the island of Madagascar. They…

Credit: WCS A limiting factor in projecting where coral reefs will survive under 21st century climate change is a lack of quantitative data on the thermal thresholds of different reef communities. Researchers studied skeletal stress…

Researchers are aiming to merge conventional wisdom with a new way of thinking: arguing the public needs to better understand how rare species benefit people outside of their existence value MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (05/16/19) -- Preserving…

Credit: Mathieu Pruvot A mass mortality event involving two bat species, the wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat (Chaerephon plicatus) and Theobold's bat (Taphozous theobaldi) occurred during a heat wave in April 2016 in Cambodia. Field…

Credit: Aleksi Lehikoinen The abundance of bird species living in agricultural environments has decreased both in Finland and elsewhere in Europe. Attempts to rectify the situation have been made with the help of…