New snake species unveiled from Yunnan road find
A newly described semi-fossorial snake from Wenshan Prefecture in southeastern Yunnan raises the genus Plagiopholis to eight valid species.
Tag: biodiversity
Inside the 104-million-specimen bottleneck: herbarium backlogs hide botanical treasures
A survey of 65 herbaria estimates at least 104 million unaccessioned plant specimens sit in backlogs worldwide, with mosses, liverworts ...
Dry Grasslands Defy the Fertilizer Effect: Aridity Decides How Nutrients Destabilize Ecosystems
A continent-scale experiment across Eurasian grasslands shows that nutrient and water additions destabilize productivity mainly at large spatial scales, and ...
Safari tourism quietly reshapes Africa’s ecosystems, review warns
A major review of African conservation systems shows that nature-based tourism acts as a gradual, cumulative driver of biodiversity change, ...
Three New Minute Litter Bug Species Discovered in Japan After a Century of Silence
A new taxonomic study describes three previously unknown species of minute litter bugs from Japan's Ryukyu Islands, marking the first ...
Mining Scientific Gold from Multi-Trap Bycatch in Swiss Forest Reserves
Bycatch from a Swiss beetle monitoring project has yielded rare wasps, threatened bees, and spiders never before recorded in eastern ...
Two New Mushroom Species and a First Record for China Emerge from Northeast Forests
A combined morphological and DNA study of the fragile mushroom genus Bolbitius in northeast China has revealed two species new ...
Four Magnolia Species Rescued From Taxonomic Limbo After 33 Years as Name-Only Synonyms
Taxonomists have restored four Asian magnolias wrongly synonymised under Michelia lacei since 1993, warning that the unsubstantiated mergers obscured endangered ...
A 19th-Century Botanist’s Herbarium Goes Digital, Revealing Extinct and Lost Plants of Tuscany
The digitization of Giovanni Giannini's historical herbarium at the University of Pisa has made 1,314 specimens freely accessible online, uncovering ...
Tiny Black-Winged Fly from Albanian Mountains Is a Brand-New Species
Researchers report the first specimen-based records of the fly family Psilidae from Albania and describe Chamaepsila gropensis, a new species ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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