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.

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More species could be threatened with extinction than previously thought

On average, 30 per cent of all species worldwide have been threatened with extinction or already become extinct over the last 500 years. This was the result of estimates by…

Air samples from Arctic region show how fast Earth is warming

The first direct observations of size-resolved ice nucleating particles in the central Arctic, spanning entire sea ice growth and decline cycle. While climate change is taking effect everywhere on Earth,…

Invasive gum rockrose threatens cork oaks in Portugal

Team led by Simon Haberstroh demonstrates that cork oaks under gum rockrose invasion change their water use strategy during drought, thereby consuming less water The modified strategy causes the cork…

New Approaches to Coral and Biodiversity Conservation

Never heard of the acronym OECMs? Then it’s high time you did. It stands for a new instrument for the protection of biodiversity on land and in the sea. Researchers…

A prickly situation

Urchins emerge to forage on living kelp when they can’t catch kelp scraps, mowing down swaths of the underwater forest. Purple sea urchins are munching their way through California’s kelp…

First major dolphin DNA study

Seascape genomics insights to key Australian populations. The first widespread census of the genetic diversity of common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) populations living along 3000km of Australia’s southern coastline has raised…

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