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New research details a previously unreported behavior that Japanese honey bees use to defend their hives.

A new study describes an approach for anticipating the relationships between future fire sizes and burn severity patterns on a regional scale.

While many studies have been conducted to understand the effects of a carnivore reintroduction on their prey, less well studied is the effect of the reintroduction on other carnivores in the same food web, in this case foxes and martens.

The Search for Lost Birds, a collaboration between Re:wild, American Bird Conservancy and BirdLife International, has developed the most complete tally of bird species that are lost to science.

The potential for pines to establish in pine-free interior Alaska, honey bees as reservoirs of disease, internet sleuthing to assess birds’ extinction risk and more in the Ecological Society of America’s journals.

During an expedition to the Gulf of California, researchers observed a previously unknown species of squid carrying a cluster of exceptionally large eggs.

Something about city life seems to suit powdery mildew, a fungal disease that afflicts many plants, including leaves of garden vegetables and roadside weeds.

A group of scientists has released the first comprehensive list of birds that haven’t been documented in more than a decade.

How wolf reintroduction affects other carnivores, drought and grazing snails’ impacts in salt marshes, the key to an invasive fish’s success, and more in the Ecological Society of America’s journals.

Postdoctoral scholar M. Brooke Rose and her mentor, Janet Franklin, were recognized by the Ecological Society of America and the American Association of Geographers for co-authored study.

Atlantic marsh fiddler crabs facilitate the aboveground growth of a foundational saltmarsh grass, but this positive interaction becomes negative as crabs migrate north.

The tool can help end users detect early changes in the environment and better protect coral reef ecosystems.

Santiago Velazco y tres coautoras de la Universidad de California recibirán el premio W.S. Cooper 2024, otorgado por la sociedad profesional de ecología más grande de los Estados Unidos, por un artículo sobre la exposición de plantas al cambio climático.

Vahsen led the team that published research on how rapid plant trait evolution can alter coastal wetland resilience to sea level rise, in Science.

Profesor e investigador de la Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas de la UC por 50 años, Premio Nacional de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnológicas 2010, es el primer latinoamericano en recibir la distinción.

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to ecology in new discoveries, teaching, sustainability, diversity and lifelong commitment to the profession.

Until recently, beaches were believed to be the only places where the marine animal’s eggs could hatch and grow.

A new study examines how the spatial extent of research—the geographical coverage of data collected—influences evaluation of the sensitivity of fish species to climate change.

Meadows is a second-year master’s student in the Clemson University Department of Biological Sciences.

Two MSU researchers are organizers of a review of over 30 influential publications on statistical ecology from the journal Ecology.