Population Biology

Credit: Irene D. Alabia, et al., Science of The Total Environment, supplementary file, July 15, 2020 Climate warming will alter marine community compositions as species are expected to shift poleward, significantly impacting the Arctic…

Findings show even small doses of insecticides reduce capacity of insects to surviveCredit: Florienne Loder, Bio21 Institute, the University of Melbourne New research has identified a mechanism by which low levels of insecticides such…

Credit: Tane Sinclair Taylor. Scientists say a 'portfolio' of protected areas within marine parks such as the Great Barrier Reef can help secure sustainable fish populations. Dr Hugo Harrison from the ARC Centre of Excellence…

Credit: Katja Peijnenburg, Erica Goetze, Deborah Wall-Palmer, Lisette Mekkes. Two groups of tiny, delicate marine organisms, sea butterflies and sea angels, were found to be surprisingly resilient--having survived dramatic global…

Concentrate on your own task but also pay attention to others -- this is the key rule for success, at least for rats when exploring as a groupCredit: Photo by Péter Palatitz. The rat in a maze might be one of the most classic…

Credit: Andrés Cortés, Santiago Madriñán and coauthors As temperatures rise around the world, many species may escape the heat by migrating to higher elevations. But what will happen to those species that are already as…

Credit: Photo courtesy WSDA PULLMAN, Wash. - Researchers at Washington State University have predicted how and where the Asian giant hornet, an invasive newcomer to the Pacific Northwest, popularly dubbed the "murder hornet," could…

Credit: Evolutionary Applications The traditional rice-based diet of some east-Asian population has brought to a number of genomic adaptations that may contribute to mitigating the spread of diabetes and obesity. An international…

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…

Who are we? Where did we come from? How did we get here? Throughout the ages, humans have sought answers to these questions, pursuing wisdom through religion, philosophy, and eventually science. Evolutionary analyses published by Genome…

Invaders, pirates, warriors - the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way across Europe and beyondCredit: Jim Lyngvild Invaders, pirates, warriors -…

Credit: Adeline Marcos Climatic conditions are changing at an unprecedented rate, affecting mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles, ectothermic animals that are unable to generate their own internal heat. With heat waves and rising…

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…

Credit: Franciany Braga-Pereira A new study comprehensively reveals how civil wars impact wildlife in countries affected by conflict. Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA), in the UK, Federal University of…

Credit: Rima Lucardi, USFS Seeds that float in the air can hitchhike in unusual places - like the air-intake grille of a refrigerated shipping container. A team of researchers from the USDA Forest Service, Arkansas State University,…

Credit: Carolina Proano Galapagos tourist guides are being retrained to catalogue the islands' famous biodiversity. The COVID-19 pandemic has left many eco-tourism workers unemployed, and the "Barcoding Galapagos" scheme will see them…

Study of Costa Rican rainforest shows national parks are more resilient than expectedCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 9, 2020) - National parks are safe havens for endangered and threatened species, but an…

Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute For the first time, scientists have viewed the deepest regions of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, discovered five undescribed species consisting of black corals and sponges, and recorded…

Credit: Dr Roman V. Yakovlev An isolated population of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly species: the Arctic Apollo (Parnassius arcticus), turned out to be a new to science subspecies with distinct looks as well as DNA. Named…