As the climate warms, birds in the East Africa mountains are getting bigger
As global temperatures rise, animals—especially birds—have been decreasing in size.
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2024
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- Wiley-Blackwell
- History
- 1978-present
- Website
- http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0906-7590
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- 4.385 (2009)
Ecography
Research finds climate-dependent dispersal limitation plays an important role in mountain soil microbiome
Microbial communities are highly diverse, yet the mechanisms underlying microbial community assembly are not well understood. In 1967, Daniel Janzen hypothesized that low climatic variability along elevational gradients results ...
Ecology
Jan 3, 2024
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Québec's hardwood trees could move north. Here's how that could affect the boreal forest landscape
In Québec, there are two distinct types of forest: the northern temperate forest in the south, and the boreal forest in the north.
Ecology
Nov 28, 2023
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Research links climate change to vampire bat expansion and rabies virus spillover
Vampire bats may soon take up residence in the United States and bring with them an ancient pathogen. "What we found was that the distribution of vampire bats has moved northward across time due to past climate change, which ...
Ecology
Nov 27, 2023
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Explaining the geological history of Indonesia using beetle evolution
A new study on weevils led by biologists Harald Letsch from the University of Vienna and Alexander Riedel from the State Natural History Museum in Karlsruhe brings new cross-disciplinary findings. Based on the evolution of ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 18, 2023
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Europe-wide study reveals climate change can alter the risk of birds and bats succumbing to infectious diseases
A new Europe-wide study compiled information on the occurrence of over 75 pathogenic microbes across Europe from almost 400 bird- and 40 bat species. Combining data on occurrence with climatic factors revealed that the occurrence ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2023
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Tracking species range shifts in a changing climate
As our planet undergoes significant transformations due to climate change, habitats are being altered, appearing, disappearing, or changing in quality. Understanding the impact of these changes on the geographic distributions ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2023
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Using AI to save species from extinction cascades
Algorithms can predict what movies or songs you might like, but they can also predict which species a predator would most likely eat.
Ecology
Jul 13, 2023
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Research on reptiles is strongly influenced by access to specimens, finds review
In an article published in the journal Ecography, a group of Brazilian researchers reports the results of a review of the scientific literature on reptiles published between 1960 and 2021, considering the more than 11,000 ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2023
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How does biodiversity change globally? Detecting accurate trends may be currently unfeasible
Existing data are too biased to provide a reliable picture of the global average of local species richness trends. This is the conclusion of an international research team led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity ...
Ecology
Feb 10, 2023
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