In 2020, the Pantanal, the largest tropical freshwater wetland in the world and a biodiversity hotspot, was swept by high-intensity fires that destroyed native vegetation in an area totaling 44,998 square kilometers, or about ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2023
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Biodiversity observation and research rely more and more on biomolecular data. The standardization of this data, encompassing both primary and contextual information (metadata), is crucial for enabling data (re-)use, integration, ...
Ecology
Oct 4, 2023
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Citizen scientists have contributed more than half of all species records to Australia's national biodiversity database—the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)—and play a crucial role in supporting conversation and biodiversity ...
Ecology
Sep 28, 2023
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Decreasing rainfall and increased groundwater use are threatening vegetation and ultimately biodiversity in the Mediterranean biome. Plants that depend on groundwater are particularly vulnerable.
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2023
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Birds likely hold smart insights about coexisting in popular habitats, especially as climate change looms. But tapping into that knowledge has a big hurdle: knowing how numerous birds live successfully together in vast environments.
Plants & Animals
Aug 15, 2023
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Deep in the tropical Andes are hiding plants that were discovered and then forgotten; plants that we knew almost nothing about. Now, thanks to the combined efforts of botanists from Germany, Ecuador, Peru and Costa Rica and ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 25, 2023
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New research led by Adam Dixon, a conservation scientist with the World Wildlife Fund, describes the successful pilot of a novel method to study how well grassland birds are faring on croplands. The study, published in Ecological ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 24, 2023
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Illegal wildlife trafficking risks triggering future global pandemics and loss of biodiversity and needs to be tackled, finds new research into the ways in global supply chains are being hijacked by criminals, from the University ...
Social Sciences
Jun 26, 2023
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Seemingly healthy ecosystems with a constant or even increasing number of species may already be on the path to decline and loss of species. Even in long-term datasets, such negative trends may only become apparent with a ...
Ecology
Jun 12, 2023
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Beneath the surface of a freshwater stream, animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms create complex patterns of biodiversity. Brooke Penaluna, research fisheries biologist at the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research ...
Ecology
May 31, 2023
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