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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From the Arctic to the tropics: researchers present a unique database on Earth’s vegetation

All plants face the same challenges, whether they are small grasses, shrubs or trees. “For example, they have to find an efficient way to conduct…

Finding plastic litter from afar

Ghost nets and other plastic garbage drifting in the sea could soon be detected automatically by planes, drones or satellites. The basis for this has been laid…

Despite government claims, orangutan populations have not increased. Call for better monitoring

A recent report by the Government of Indonesia states that orangutan populations have increased by more than 10% from 2015 to 2017. These numbers are…

Increasing frequency of ocean storms could alter kelp forest ecosystems

Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of California, Santa Barbara experimentally mimicked the loss of undersea giant kelp forests at…

Enabling a plastic-free microplastic hunt: "Rocket" improves detection of very small particles

Microplastics are omnipresent in the environment. Whether in the Arctic ice, the sand of the Sahara or the sediments of the deep sea – environmental…

Plant seeds survive machine washing – Dispersal of invasive plants with clothes

Orsolya Valkó and her team from University of Debrecen, Hungary, studied an aspect of plant dispersal which has been so far overlooked: what is the fate of…

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