Population Biology

Credit: Martin Clay Tougher early lives could help captive-bred game birds develop survival skills for adulthood in the wild, new research suggests. Captive-bred pheasants and partridges start life in unnatural…

Plants benefit from more bees, especially bumble beesCredit: Henryk Niestrój /Pixabay Flowering plants are better pollinated in urban than in rural areas. This has now been demonstrated experimentally by a team of scientists led by…

A newly published study reports a successful, first-ever open-field release of a self-limiting, genetically engineered diamondback moth, stating that it paves the way for an effective and sustainable approach to pest control. The…

Credit: Gabriel Mejdalani When, in 2014, Brazilian researchers stumbled across a never-before-seen red-eyed leafhopper feeding inside the rosettes of bromeliads, growing in the restingas of southeastern Brazil, they were…

Credit: Kristen Grace/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study in how human food preferences can drive biodiversity,…

Ancient poop levels point to repopulation of iconic pre-Columbian metropolis A University of California, Berkeley, archaeologist has dug up ancient human feces, among other demographic clues, to challenge the narrative around the legendary…

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that not only do individual mammalian cells in a population fail to respond synchronously to estrogen stimulation, neither do individual…

Credit: Paola Galgani-Barraza Despite being "neotropical-forest-loving creatures," some orchid bees are known to tolerate habitats disturbed by human activity. However, little did the research team of Paola Galgani-Barraza (Smithsonian…

Credit: Muddy Duck Productions Loggerhead turtles feed in the same places year after year - meaning key locations should be protected, researchers say. University of Exeter scientists used satellite tracking and "stable isotope ratios" -…

Research by the USGS and Dickinson College reveals why scientists fail to detect brown treesnakes at low densitiesCredit: Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.) - Researchers from Dickinson College and the U.S. Geological Survey…