Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

innovations-report offers informative reports and articles on topics such as climate protection, landscape conservation, ecological systems, wildlife and nature parks and ecosystem efficiency and balance.

Salamanders Are a More Abundant Food Source in Forest Ecosystems Than Previously Thought

In the 1970s, ecologists published results from one of the first whole-forest ecosystem studies ever conducted in Hubbard Brook, New Hampshire. In the paper,…

New paper identifies virus devastating sea stars on Pacific Coast

Museum biological collections are the records of life on Earth and as such, they are frequently used to investigate serious environmental issues. When public…

Plants have little wiggle room to survive drought, UCLA life scientists report

The research will improve predictions of which plant species will survive the increasingly intense droughts associated with global climate change.

China's old-growth forests vanishing despite government policies, Dartmouth research shows

The findings shed new light on the complex interactions between China's development and conservation policies and their impact on the most diverse temperate…

Bison Mating Observations Fall Short of Predicting Reproductive Success

The current issue of the Journal of Mammalogy reports on a study of the bison herd at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in north-central Nebraska.

Bizarre mapping error puts newly discovered species in jeopardy

Reserve's borders have erroneously moved 50 kilometers
New species, named after the Luama Katanga Reserve, is now threatened by cattle ranches and forest…

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