News articles tagged with 'biodiversity'
Ancient environment found to drive marine biodiversity
— 25 Nov 2011 09:00 | Geology and palaeontologyMuch of our knowledge about past life has come from the fossil record - but how accurately does that reflect the true history and drivers of biodiversity on Earth?…
A new model for understanding biodiversity
— 21 Nov 2011 19:22 | BiologyAnimals like foxes and raccoons are highly adaptable. They move around and eat everything from insects to eggs. They and other 'generalist feeders' like them may also be crucial to…
Biodiversity improves water quality in streams through a division of labour
— 9 Apr 2011 11:43 | EnvironmentBiologically diverse streams are better at cleaning up pollutants than less rich waterways, and Bradley Cardinale, an assistant professor at the U-M School of Natural Resources and…
World's reef fishes tussling with human overpopulation
— 6 Apr 2011 17:46 | EnvironmentIn an unprecedented collaborative analysis published in the journal PLoS Biology, scientists from 49 nations demonstrated that the ability of reef fish systems to produce goods and…
First broad-scale maps of life on the sea-shelf
— 2 Apr 2011 11:22 | EnvironmentMarine scientists from five research agencies have pooled their skills and resources to compile a directory of life on Australia's continental shelf. They examined the shelf seascape…
Study finds remarkable diversity of lichen species in Florida state park
— 28 Mar 2011 17:07 | BiologyIf you seek America's most diverse, densely packed human population, head for New York's Manhattan, but if it's lichens you fancy instead of people, then Southwestern Florida is your…
Research shows not only the fittest survive
— 28 Mar 2011 15:17 | BiologyDarwin's notion that only the fittest survive has been called into question by new research published 27 March 2011 in Nature…
Ecologists use 70-year-old pressed plants to chart city's vanishing native flora
— 18 Mar 2011 14:44 | BiologyMore than half of the world's population now lives in cities, yet we know little about how urbanisation affects biodiversity. In one the first studies of its kind, ecologists in Indianapolis,…
Maquipucuna cloud forest in Ecuador yields new species of yeast
— 15 Mar 2011 20:53 | BiologyIn a unique collaboration between scientists from the UK, Ecuador and Reunion, a new species of yeast has been discovered growing on the fruit of an unidentified and innocuous bramble…
Rock-paper-scissors tournaments explain ecological diversity
— 15 Mar 2011 19:53 | BiologyAccording to classical ecology, when two species compete for the same resource, eventually the more successful species will win out while the other will go extinct. But that rule cannot…