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The findings have implications for urban forestry and heat island management efforts.

Benjy Sedano-Herrera, recipient of ESA’s Forrest Shreve Research Award, is finding international success through his research in a UNLV Life Sciences lab and his networking outside of it.

Scientists studying biodiversity rely on public data, but USC Dornsife researchers found that butterfly sightings on one popular online platform are skewed by personal preferences.

Researchers find trees in parks are more drought-tolerant than species near homes.

Excess nutrients in bodies of water leads to plankton blooms and turbidity—a new review highlights the need for a consensus definition of this phenomenon.

Tanzanian leopards, already in decline, can’t keep up with hyenas when people are around.

New research shows recovering wolves in northeast Washington are having less of an impact on white-tailed deer populations than other factors.

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.

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.

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.