Research from Washington University in St. Louis says that bird wing shape—a proxy for long-distance flying ability—is a trait that influences biodiversity patterns on islands around the world.

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods ...

A predictive model suggests that seabirds and marine mammals forage in the same areas where wind potential is most ...

Biodiversity includes two other components ... For example, a desert ecosystem has soil, temperature, rainfall patterns, and solar radiation that affect not only what species occur there, but ...

Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen ...

Global research team explores how environmental factors and dispersal barriers influence biodiversity. Why do certain plants ...

A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, ...

We are interested in biodiversity patterns within and between trophic levels, species coexistence and predator-prey dynamics across multiple temporal scales. The Baltic Sea is like a time ma­chine ...

Rising mountains do more than reshape the landscape – they also drive evolutionary change, according to a new study. By simulating millions of years ...

A study explores the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have changed over ... and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). "Given enough time ...