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The latest research from ESA’s journals: Snorkelers find rare salamander eggs – An albino plant – Birds and burns – Public parks for native insects – Mountain-traversing seabirds

Trade and tourism are among the most important factors in understanding the establishment of invasive species in Cuba, but the nation’s revolution and the subsequent U.S. embargo also influence the island’s biodiversity today.

UNC Greensboro’s Ann Berry Somers, senior lecturer in biology, with John H. Roe, professor at UNC Pembroke, recently announced the release of a new paper on eastern box turtles, the North Carolina state reptile.

Research shows that biodiversity is important not just at the traditional scale of short-term plot experiments, but also when measured over decades and across regional landscapes as well.

University of Michigan researchers netted and trapped more than 4,000 bees from 60 species to discover that the most diverse bee communities have the lowest levels of three common viral pathogens.

University of Queensland researchers offer new evidence suggesting that the ongoing overexploitation of ocean predators on the northern Great Barrier Reef is unlikely to have cascading impacts on corals. The findings introduce new layers of complexity to the paradigm of reef sharks being regarded as apex predators.

In a new study spanning nearly 13 years, researchers at UC Boulder discovered that the ground squirrel has joined many other small mammals in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains that are making an ominous trek: They’re climbing uphill to avoid warming temperatures in the state brought on by climate change.

Researchers at the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) at the University of Sussex show that honey bees and bumble bees dominate on different flower species and have found out why.

University of Nevada, Reno conducts international rivers study based on new approaches in science.

Researchers from the Michigan State University introduced the framework of metacoupling, which allows scientists to view the world as it truly is – with humans and nature interacting over space and time and without boundaries of academic disciplines.

Global circulating winds can carry bacteria, fungal spores, viruses and pollen over long distances and across national borders, but the United States is ill-prepared to confront future disease outbreaks or food-supply threats caused by airborne organisms, says a new Ecological Applications paper.

Scientists at Oregon State University have found that sampling stream water for evidence of the presence of various species using environmental DNA, known as eDNA, can be more accurate than electrofishing, without disrupting the fish.

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam found that the feeding behavior of several invertebrate animals in aquatic food webs is drastically changed by increasing inputs of nitrogen and phosphorus into surface waters.

UC Davis scientists found that the presence of recently dead trees on the landscape was a driver of wildfire severity for two large fires that occurred toward the end of the drought and documents the important role recently dead trees can play in exacerbating fire severity.

Researchers from the University of Southern Florida revealed that a monitor lizard should be regarded as an “ecosystem engineer,” a rarity for reptiles.

A UC Davis team collected post-fire recovery data to develop a unique tool to better understand where to focus forest regeneration efforts.

A new study suggests that slowing the resurgence of western corn rootworm may require a larger-scale strategy than previously thought.

With increased upward migration of species due to climate change, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science found that this migration only maintained species survival rates when moving to intact forests.

Junior and female ecology and evolutionary biology faculty are most negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study done by Purdue University and Colorado State University researchers.

Scientists who track-and-trace fish for a living claim that analysing seawater can tell us the richest story of what lies beneath the waves.