Biodiversity

Credit: Juliana Siqueira-Gay Research has found a proposal to regulate mining of Indigenous lands in Brazil's Amazon rainforest could affect more than 863,000 square kilometres of forest and harm the nation's economy. Led by…

Monitoring global animal migration from space - this is now possible for international animal behaviour researchers. ICARUS, the animal tracking system in space, successfully completed its test phase on the International Space Station…

Credit: A. V. Stolyarova, et al/ Nature Communications A group of scientists from Russia studied the trends in the evolution of amino acid sequences of proteins in vertebrates and insects and traced the factors influencing the…

Credit: Amanda Bemis and Gustav Paulay/Florida Museum CALVERT ISLAND, British Columbia --- Researchers have identified an invasive blood-sucking parasite on mud shrimp in the waters of British Columbia's Calvert Island. The…

Land-use change to feed people is the leading driver of biodiversity loss; new research shows that changing this relationship is necessary (and possible) if we are to reverse trends on biodiversity loss by 2050Credit: IIASA Preserving…

Freshwater turtles may have a role in regulating water quality in river systems by scavenging fish carcasses, suggests a study of Emydura macquarii, a vulnerable freshwater turtle species found in Australia. The findings are published in…

New research by the University of Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) has demonstrated a clear fluctuation in the trade of wildmeat in and around the High Niger National Park in Guinea, West Africa New research by…

Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Xavier Pita A sustained dialogue must be established between molecular ecologists, policymakers and other stakeholders for DNA-based approaches to be adopted in marine monitoring and assessment, according…

University of Bayreuth researcher discovers new species of spider during a research stay in the highlands of ColombiaCredit: Photo: Charlotte Hopfe. During a research stay in the highlands of Colombia conducted as part of her…

A University of Arkansas scientist is part of an international team working to establish a network to track dragonflies and damselfliesCredit: Simon Tye A U of A biologist is part of an international team of researchers building a…

Invasive beetle could lead to local extinction of the region's only native gymnospermCredit: University of Guam Western Pacific Tropical Research Center Researchers at the Western Pacific Tropical Research Center at the University…

Sensor technology will 'illuminate' the role of bioluminescence in marine organismsCredit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University From the ocean surface to the deep seafloor, bioluminescent creatures are found throughout marine…

Whale shark girls overtake the boys to become world's largest fishCredit: AIMS A decade-long study of the iconic fish has found male whale sharks grow quickly, before plateauing at an average adult length of about eight or nine…

An extremely social robotic fish helps unravel the collective patterns of animal groupsCredit: David Bierbach The spectacular and complex visual patterns created by animal groups moving together have fascinated humans since the…

Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report outlines 8 major transitions needed to slow, then halt nature's accelerating declineCredit: Convention on Biological Diversity Final report card on Aichi Biodiversity Targets, set in 2010: 6 of…

The devastating effects of human activity on wildlife in the American tropics over the last 500 years are revealed in a new study published today. More than half of the species in local 'assemblages' - sets of co-existing species - of…

Credit: Duncan Kimuyu As they roam around the African savanna in search for food, giraffes and elephants alter the diversity and richness of its vegetation. By studying the foraging patterns of these megaherbivores across different…

Credit: Manuel Portero / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) A potential response of river fish to environmental changes is to colonize new habitats. But what happens when dams and weirs restrict their movement?…

Animals in tropical and Mediterranean areas are the most sensitive to climate change and land use pressures, finds a new study by UCL researchers. The findings, published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, show how extinction risks…

Credit: Asian Turtle Program In Southeast Asia, wildlife trade is running rampant, and Vietnam plays a key role in combating wildlife trafficking. Since the country opened its market to China in the late 1980s, a huge amount of wildlife…