Researchers gathered data on watering hole communities over the course of two years to investigate how herbivore activity affects vegetation on the savannas of central Kenya.
A team of international scientists has gained new insights into the diet, population density and social interactions of a group of Brazilian jaguars.
The Galápagos’ simulated future is a warmer and wetter one, which could have cascading ramifications for the archipelago and its inhabitants.
After suffering mass mortality for years due to infection with a deadly chytrid fungus, some frog populations in Panama now seem to be co-existing with the pathogen.
Early fall wildfires in the western states and the smoke they generate pose a risk to birds migrating in the Pacific Flyway, according to a new study.
According to a study published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, there isn’t a widespread upswing of harmful algae blooms in North American lakes.
Domestic cats that regularly catch wild animals still get most of their nutrition from food provided at home, new research shows.
Scientists have discovered that milkweed butterflies harass, subdue, and subsequently feed on live, dead, and dying caterpillars belonging to other milkweed butterflies.
A series of recent research papers from a McGill-led team has found that the herbicide glyphosate—commonly sold under the label Roundup—can alter the structure of natural freshwater bacterial and zooplankton communities.
New research finds evidence of paternal care in a cephalopod, with male bigfin reef squids helping female squids find a suitable place to lay their eggs.
New research shows how the body condition of endangered Southern Resident killer whales reflects changes in Chinook salmon numbers in the Fraser River and the Salish Sea.
A new study finds that wing morphology and flight efficiency are critical factors in a bird’s ability to move to a new breeding place.
Biological diversity in the Appalachians is severely threatened by mountaintop coal mining, according to a study in the September 2021 issue of the journal Ecological Applications.
This month Colorado State University’s Dennis Ojima became president of the governing board of the Ecological Society of America.
A research team from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that found that two grassland sites in Inner Mongolia differed markedly in their aboveground net primary production responses to soil moisture, with greater sensitivity at the more arid site.
Logged forests near regional and rural towns and settlements are at increased risk of increased fire severity, new research from The Australian National University shows.
Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of South-Eastern Norway find that potential consequences of climate change are extremely dependent on the specific location of the plants, and that deciduous species in particular will benefit from warming.
A new study published in Ecosphere shows how narwhals can be detected via infrared flukeprints from aerial survey imagery.
Scientists from the University of Hong Kong, along with colleagues in the UK and the USA, found that forest regeneration is critical to mitigating the increasing effects of extreme hot events for species survival.
A new study shows that coastal marshes are vulnerable to erosion caused by rising seas, pounding waves, and tidal flows, and that in some cases, these vulnerabilities are made worse by superabundant crabs on tidal creeks.