Tree islands bring biodiversity to oil palm plantations
Islands of trees in oil palm plantations can significantly increase biodiversity within five years without reducing productivity. This has been ...
Tag: Biodiversity
River erosion drives fish biodiversity in the Appalachians
New Haven, Conn. — The gradual erosion of layers of rock by rivers flowing through the Appalachian Mountains generates biodiversity ...
Establishing a wildflower meadow at King’s College, Cambridge bolstered biodiversity and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, study finds.
A new study examining the effects of planting a wildflower meadow in the historic grounds of King’s College, Cambridge has ...
Conservationists propose “global conservation basic income” to safeguard biodiversity
Publishing in the journal Nature Sustainability, a team of conservationists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society say that providing a ...
Biodiversity discovery: Unknown species (“dark taxa”) drive insect diversity
Biodiversity loss ranks among the top three risks to humanity, as stated in the 2023 World Economic Forum Global Risks ...
Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity
Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity Credit: University of Leeds Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity With glaciers melting at unprecedented rates ...
Wildfires and animal biodiversity
Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, charring everything in their paths. But ...
Scientists advocate for integration of biogeography and behavioral ecology to rapidly respond to biodiversity loss
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Oklahoma has published a perspective article in the journal Proceedings of ...
Biodiversity auditing key to success of new conservation plans
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests a way to greatly improve the outcomes of biodiversity ...
New technologies for research & protection of marine biodiversity
ANERIS, an EU-funded collaborative research project focused on developing a network for operational marine biology, has officially kicked off. The ...
Detecting coral biodiversity in seawater samples
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have developed a method to measure coral biodiversity through extracting ...
New EU project will standardise access to biodiversity data to empower policymakers
The magnitude and dynamics of the global biodiversity crisis are hard to quantify and require rapid, reliable and repeatable biodiversity ...
At least 80% of the world’s most important sites for biodiversity on land currently contain human developments, study finds
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.05 LONDON TIME (GMT) ON 23 March 2023 Paper available at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18wVryz17-8PmtYDudp5NPXE75onO12FF?usp=sharing ...
Towards reducing biodiversity loss in fragmented habitats
When natural habitats are cleared to make way for cities, roads and agriculture, this often leaves behind “islands” of fragmented ...
A persistent influence of supernovae on biodiversity
Extensive studies of the fossil record have shown that the diversity of life forms has varied significantly over geological time, ...
Kennesaw State paper sheds light on biodiversity amid climate change
Fewer parasites in U.S. waters might be seen by many as a good thing, but a Kennesaw State University biologist ...
Study shows how biodiversity of coral reefs around the world changes with depth
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (March 13, 2023) — In a paper published today in Current Biology, researchers from the California Academy of ...
New study reveals biodiversity loss drove ecological collapse after the “Great Dying”
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (February 24, 2023) — The history of life on Earth has been punctuated by several mass extinctions, ...
Large-scale fossil study reveals origins of modern-day biodiversity gradient 15 million years ago
UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 16:00 GMT / 11:00 ET WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2023. Credit: Depictions of present-day planktonic foraminifera floating in ...
Completing the long-standing puzzle of biodiversity: How ecology can help us identify missing pieces
Biodiversity databases are not “talking” to each other: species occurrences records and maps from different data sources do not match, ...
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A new synthesis method for three-dimensional nanocarbons
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Within just a few months a deadly epidemic killed all the black sea urchins in the Gulf of Eilat – a great threat to the coral reef in Eilat
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How eating natto might help to distress
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GPS tracking reveals how a female baboon stopped using urban space after giving birth
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Promising building blocks for photonic quantum simulators
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Study highlights long-term benefits of family-based care following institutional care