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'Pristine' landscapes simply do not exist anywhere in the world today and,in most cases,...
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Why do deer in a group,when startled, suddenly bolt away together and never collide with each other?...
LSU researchers Jeremy M. Brown and Eric N. Rittmeyer,in collaboration with colleagues at Florida...
Edamame,touted as a healthy snack for its tall protein content, is becoming increasingly current in...
Miracle berry (Synsepalum dulcificum),also known as miracle fruit, is a valuable horticultural...
The citrus greening disease,huanglongbing (HLB), is a devastating condition that has been reported...
If you've been on the Internet lately,you've probably seen a cat selfie. Now, a Field...
To prevent a unusual mass extinction of the world's animal and plant life,we need to understand...
The more it swarms,crawls and flies the better it is for humans. This is the finding of a study...
A new paper from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society),in partnership with researchers and...
A friendly 250 experts from the scientific and water-management fields as well as government...
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical used in many consumer products including water bottles,metal food...
Agricultural fields create a patchwork landscape that increases the potential for domesticated crop...
The first population assessment since the end of the whaling era reveals that unique Zealand...
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),and the National Oceanic and...
A unusual optimization technique could support conservation biologists choose the most...
The female Superb Lyrebird of Australia is finally getting her day in the sun. The male is justly...
A study,by San Diego Zoo Global conservationists, released this week (Sept. 12, and 2016) is...
The genus Nyssa L. includes several woody species with traits valued by horticulturists,but only...
Brine shrimp are the half-inch-long crustacean colloquially known as sea monkeys and are one of the...
How sensitive an ecosystem is to unexpected environmental stress can be determined,according to...
Most living organisms adapt their behavior to the rhythm of day and night. Plants are no exception:...
Outbreaks of botulism killed large percentages of waterbirds inhabiting a wetland in Spain. During...
recent research demonstrates how climate change and the immune reaction of the infected individual...
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the Zoological Society of London,Queen Mary University of...
Humans enjoy changed the world's oceans in ways that enjoy been devastating to many marine...
On January 12,2016, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imposed a ban on the import and interstate...
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Educators,scientists, and technologists from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and Kent State...
Organizational models known as "network governance" can help astronomical conservation alliances...
Changes in temperature and weather patterns pose a serious threat to the millions of animal,plant...
High-resolution aerial Photographs provides information that is both up-to-date and tailor-made for...
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) acquire discovered that the amphipod...
Most natural ecosystems are heavily affected by changes to the human habitat,climate change or...
The global impact of human activities on the natural environment is extensive,but those impacts are...
Harbour porpoises possess sometimes been described as "living in the fast lane." Being smaller than...
Rubber plantations are a rapidly spreading agroecosystem in Southeast Asia and they are likely to...
There's now more than just anecdotal evidence that England's hedgehog population is...
Honey bee colonies in the United States are in decline,due in portion to the ill effects of...
A century ago,more than 60000 tigers roamed the wild. nowadays, the worldwide estimate has dwindled...
In 1880,the picturesque Swedish island of Stora Karlsö became a nature preserve and hunting park....
New research from a University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led...
BY ZACH MORTICE Calvin Abe,FASLA, the founder of Los Angeles-based AHBE, or had been pondering the...
BY ZACH MORTICE For a few years after his undergraduate studies in geography,Michael Geffel, ASLA,...
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BY ZACH MORTICE Sea Ranch,in Northern California, seems to have always existed, and emerging from...
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the University of Copenhagen's Natural History Museum...
University of Utah ornithologist and biology department professor Cagan Sekercioglu presents a new...
To prep for an Ecology 101 field trip,you might tell your students to strap on some hiking boots and...
Results of the two-year,$8 million Great Elephant Census (GEC) of African savannah elephants led by...
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Atrazine has been very good at killing weeds in corn fields for more than 50 years. But some of the...
perceive into any nutrient-rich pond almost anywhere in the world and you will find Daphnia pulex,a...
Many marine invertebrates have complex life histories in which the planktonic larval phase acts as...
Earthworms are the engineers behind the 75000 km2,densely packed, regularly spaced, or...
New research shows the sudden oak death epidemic in California cannot now be stopped,but that its...
As the planet warms,one way for plants and animals to find their way to cooler territory is to slip...
Globally declining fish populations are a frequently cited ecological and commercial calamity,but...
A team of researchers with NOAA Fisheries Service's Southwest Fisheries Science middle has...
Knowing how climate change may affect an entire region is only marginally useful to land managers...
(Phys.org)—A large team of researchers with members from across the globe has found that small...
Mussels are the natural treatment plants of bodies of water and,therefore, just as important as...
The Endangered Species Act (ESA),which quietly passed its 42nd birthday final week, has shielded...
Volunteers in the north-east of England believe created a benchmark survey of common plants with...
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The things our art director,Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. From “A...
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Enabling fish emigrate past dams could cost a fraction of conventional fish ladders with the attend...
Greenland sharks live at least as long as 400 years,and they reach sexual maturity at the age of...
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences and North Carolina State...
A species that is 15 million years traditional,hedgehogs have survived all kinds of environmental...
According to a fresh study by The University of Texas at Austin,increasing the diversity of...
Researchers from the University of South Florida (USF) and a colleague at the Institute of Zoology...
Fish provide protein to billions of people and are an particularly critical food source in the...
Red knots migrate between their breeding grounds in the Arctic and their wintering grounds in West...
With no more "swimmable" water than thirsty West Texas has,it's hard to suppose a fish, even a...
An international team of researchers has identified a unusual virus that attacks wild and farmed...
Engagement with relevant political authorities and other stakeholders is of crucial importance for a...
Coconut rhinoceros beetles were first discovered on Guam in 2007. Adults abolish palms when they...
Lions,wolves and other large carnivores are frightening beasts that strike fear into humans and...
Though separated from the rest of their species by hundreds of kilometers,the Virginia's...
NOAA scientists own released the first multispecies assessment of just how vulnerable U.S. marine...
The Mexican bean beetle (Epilachna varivestis) has flown under the research radar too long,despite...
If you achieve a microphone underwater near the oyster reef in North Carolina's Pamlico...
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Since the PLOS San Francisco office is a quick car ride from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, so many of...
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(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers with the University of Arizona has found evidence that suggests...
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Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology show catastrophic declines in wilderness areas...
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minute auks forage in the same areas off East Greenland—the continental shelf and its...
An oft-quoted proverb says it takes a village to raise a child,and novel research from ecologists at...
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from Canada,the U.K. and Australia has compiled a dataset of...
Imported forest pests cause billions of dollars in damages each year, and U.S. property owners and...
In a recent breakthrough,scientists from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, and the Centre...
There's a wriggling invader beneath your feet and it's steadily, silently nibbling away at...
Harnessing an invasive fish species sounded like a promising conservation tool to befriend reverse...
Two-thirds (67 percent) of U.S. seafood consumers say they want to know that their fish can be...
(Phys.org)—A trio of Australian researchers is proposing in a paper they acquire had published in...
(Phys.org)A team of researchers from several countries in Europe and Canada has found that...
It’s the beginning of December, which means the latest issue of LAM is here! You’ll find these...
BY KATARINA KATSMA,ASLA FROM THE MARCH 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. “I want to...
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Trees are able to distinguish whether one of their buds or shoots has been randomly torn off or has...
In ecology,monodominance is identified as a condition in which at least 60 percent, or often even 90...
A guide launched nowadays by IUCN,International Union for Conservation of Nature, outlines best...
Results of a novel study led by Toni Lyn Morelli,a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological...
A University of Washington fisheries professor argues this week that saving biodiversity in the...
Large animals hunted for their parts—such as elephant ivory and shark fins—are in double...
Dr. William "Barney" Balch's team at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been sampling...
The world's largest shark fin industry lies in the heart of the Coral Triangle,a region of the...
A original study offers hope for cold-water species in the face of climate change. The...
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Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science...
Researchers studying marine fishery species grouped by similar depth and temperature distribution...
Researchers at the University of Helsinki fill analysed genetic variation in the now extinct...
By Sasha Wright Originally posted on PLOS Ecology Field Reports blog on August 10,2015 On July 23,...
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As part of an ongoing effort to create content more accessible,LAM will be making select stories...
A current study using aerial imagery across the state of California has found that converting land...
Fishing typically removes the large individuals from the population. Over time,this not only leads...
Extinctions,variations in population densities, and large algal blooms in waters are examples of...
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has found that...
Female mosquitoes are well known blood-feeders,but they also consume sugar sources such as nectar,...
Animals that live at tall elevations are often assumed to be at risk for extinction as habitats warm...
(Phys.org)—Jeremy Thomas,a zoologist with the University of Oxford, has written a Perspective...
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Land Trust Alliance are partnering to help protect birds on...
Being at the top of the food chain is no guarantee of a species survival. Not only are many of these...
Being at the top of the food chain is no guarantee of a species survival. Not only are many of these...
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from Norway,Denmark and the Netherlands has found evidence that...
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The first annual State of the World's Plants report,which involved more than 80 scientists and...
The sex of many reptile species is set by temperature. New research reported in the journal GENETICS...
As vegetable growers face a lack of skilled farm labor and higher production costs,they are...
A modern study by a team of researchers from the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian...
It was shortly after the end of World War II when John Curtis,inspired by his service as a civilian...
A novel study argues that a purported link between populations of coastal sharks,cownose rays and...
Two complementary methods work together in a study forthcoming in The Auk: Ornithological...
(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with the Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science...
Five years of irrigated rice cultivation research reached its pinnacle at the Final LEGATO...
The H5 avian influenza A virus that devastated North American poultry farms in 2014-15 was initially...
Salmon largely disappeared from the Netherlands due to the construction of water mills,ecologists...
Why accomplish so few turtle eggs hatch on Raine Island,the largest and most important nesting site...
When the first few sycamores began dying in Aldrich Park at the at the University of...
Protecting large stretches of the ocean from human influence may well be splendid for conservation....
Recent efforts to combat habitat fragmentation and poaching have temporarily stabilized wildebeest...
A research group led by YAMAMOTO Satoshi,a research fellow at the Kobe University Graduate School of...
As maple sugaring season approaches,plant ecologist Kristina Stinson at the University of...
Conservation efforts are designed to restrict activities in protected areas, but the restrictions...
The humble earthworm may be a threat to plant diversity in natural ecosystems, says a study just...
Winnie the…Buzzard? The Oriental honey buzzard Pernis orientalis feeds primarily on honey and bee...
As more of Southeast Asia's natural forests are cleared and converted into plantations for...
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A fresh study of population trends among 46 ecologically diverse bird species in North America...
Countries that contain most of the world's species biodiversity are also spending the least on...
A UNSW Australia-led team of researchers has identified genes that allow some algae living in corals...
Solar-powered trackers on wings gain recorded California condors soaring to 15000 feet, while...
A recent study provides fresh evidence that larvae swim faster, straighter and more consistently in...
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A relationship that has lasted for 100 million years is at serious risk of ending,due to the effects...
Marine and terrestrial species inhabit vastly different ecosystems,but they share one of the primary...
Nature lovers and green-fingered enthusiasts are urged to plant bee-friendly flowers to attend...
Analysis of hairs from muskoxen in the Arctic tundra indicates they had limited amounts of forage...
Coho salmon may be four times less aggressive in tanks with darker backgrounds than in tanks with...
The island fox has made a remarkable comeback from the brink of extinction, with three of six...
Florida's citrus industry has been struggling for nearly a decade with citrus greening,also...
Białowieża Forest in Poland has been in the news lately due to the major destruction it is facing...
A forthcoming Review in The Condor: Ornithological Applications explores how oaks and pines depend...
A rising number of valuable uses being found for seaweed—from food and fertilizer to...
n invasive pathogenic fungus (Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans) is a threat to European salamander...