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Soil Bacteria can Evolve in Response to Climate Change

While evolution is normally thought of as occurring over millions of years, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that bacteria can evolve in response to climate change in 18 months.

29 Apr 2021

Tropical Defaunation Poses Threat to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

The current loss of biological diversity is unprecedented and species extinctions exceed the estimated background rate many times over.

28 Apr 2021

Scientific Classification of Oak Forests in Republic of Tatarstan Elucidates the Region's Climate Change

Scientific classifications of forest vegetation on the territory of the former USSR, including the Republic of Tatarstan, previously used the dominant approach, traditional for northern countries, taking into account the dominance degree of one or another species in the main tree layer, or similarity in the composition of subordinate layers with the identification of cycles and series of associations.

28 Apr 2021

Combined Effect of Ocean Warming and Fishing Affects the Viability of Global Fish Stock

The combined effect of rapid ocean warming and the practice of targeting big fish is affecting the viability of wild populations and global fish stock says new research by the University of Melbourne and the University of Tasmania.

28 Apr 2021

Study Demonstrates High, Very Specific Species Diversity of the Deep-Sea

A new study compared 20 deep-sea basins in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, demonstrating for the first time the extremely high and also highly specific species diversity of the deep sea.

28 Apr 2021

Scientists Develop the First Stable Coral Cell Cultures

A new era of biological research could be on the horizon thanks to new research that reveals a method to culture coral cells.

27 Apr 2021

Network-Wide Perspective is Crucial for Conservation Management Decisions

Regardless of an expected shift in main species distributions, a continental-scale network of conservation sites will probably stay effective even under future climate change scenarios.

26 Apr 2021

Climate-Friendly Microbes Play an Important Role in the Global Carbon Cycle

The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the U.S. and China has identified an entirely new group of microbes quietly living in hot springs, geothermal systems and hydrothermal sediments around the world.

26 Apr 2021

Ancient Indigenous Forest Gardens Create Important Habitat for Animals and Pollinators

A new study by Simon Fraser University historical ecologists finds that Indigenous-managed forests--cared for as "forest gardens"--contain more biologically and functionally diverse species than surrounding conifer-dominated forests and create important habitat for animals and pollinators.

23 Apr 2021

Updated Climate Change Atlas Includes Place-Based Summaries of Current Tree Species

For 20 years, the USDA Forest Service's Climate Change Atlas has been giving foresters in the Eastern United States insight into how future habitat conditions may affect tree species, from dramatic change (a big increase of cedar elm, for example, and a big loss in balsam poplar) to the fairly neutral (red maple).

22 Apr 2021