Researchers at the University of Granada and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence have demonstrated a link ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

For example, plants require water and nutrients ... the neutral theory of species diversity makes the provocative assumption that all individuals are ecologically identical, and that niche ...

Why do some places contain more species than others? Many patterns in the spatial distribution of species have been identified by biogeographers, and many mechanisms have been proposed to explain ...

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found that the critically endangered regent honeyeater faces hidden genetic ...

Communities are working to revive diversity and resilience by re-localising food systems, decentralising governance, and ...

Biodiversity runs the gamut from the genetic diversity in a single population to the variety of ecosystems across the globe. Greater biodiversity in ecosystems, species, and individuals leads to ...

Recent advancements in the field of biobanking offer hope that one day we may finally put a stop to animal species’ ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also ...

John adds, ‘While there are still some challenges to overcome, DNA-led methods are already enabling us to look for a far greater diversity of species groups and to repeatedly sample over larger ...

A well-studied example of a ring species is the salamander Ensatina escholtzii of the Pacific Coast region of the United States. In Southern California, naturalists have found what look like two ...