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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Decline of diatoms due to ocean acidification

Study shows unexpected negative impact by CO2 on important plankton group. While calcifying organisms like oysters and corals have difficulty forming their shells and skeletons in more acidic seawater, diatoms…

Organic farming or flower strips

– which is better for bees? How effective environmental measures in agriculture are for biodiversity and wild bee populations depends on various factors and your perspective. This is shown by…

‘Traffic calming’ boosts breeding on coral reefs

Coral reef fish breed more successfully if motorboat noise is reduced, new research shows. Scientists introduced “traffic calming” on three reefs for an entire breeding season – cutting the number…

Satellites and drones can help save pollinators

Satellites and drones can provide key information to protect pollinators, researchers say. Their study examines new ways of using these technologies to track the availability of flowers, and says this…

Researchers have developed a potential super wheat for salty soils

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed several new varieties of wheat that tolerate soils with higher salt concentrations. After having mutated a wheat variety from Bangladesh, they now…

Major step forward in monitoring ocean health

MBARI’s autonomous technology uses eDNA to survey biodiversity. In a major step forward for monitoring the biodiversity of marine systems, a new study published today in Environmental DNA details how…

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