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June 17, 2023

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Older Trees Accumulate More Mutations Than Their Younger Counterparts

A study of the relationship between the growth rate of tropical trees and the frequency of genetic mutations they accumulate suggests that older, long-lived trees play a greater role in generating and maintaining genetic diversity than short-lived ...

Lost Giants: New Study Reveals the Abundance Decline of African Megafauna

A groundbreaking new paper focuses on the size and abundance of living and fossil African large mammals, shedding light on the ecological dynamics behind the decline of these iconic creatures. The findings challenge previous assumptions about the causes of megafaunal extinctions in Africa and ...

空气质量监测站收集了海量DNA by Accident, a Potentially 'Game-Changing' Discovery for Tracking Global Biodiversity

The accelerating loss of biodiversity and increasing rate of species extinction is a major threat to ecosystems around the globe. And yet, quantifying those losses at a large scale hasn't been possible, in large part due to a lack of the required ...

Fungi Stores a Third of Carbon from Fossil Fuel Emissions and Could Be Essential to Reaching Net Zero, New Study Reveals

Mycorrhizal fungi are responsible for holding up to 36 per cent of yearly global fossil fuel emissions below ground -- more than China emits each ...
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Butterflies on the Decline

Research shows that the numbers of butterflies in meadows and pastures of Europe are in a continuous decline. Grassland butterflies will soon play an even greater role in EU nature conservation ...

The Number of the World's Farms to Halve by 2100

New research shows the number of farms globally will shrink from 616 million in 2020 to 272 million in 2100, posing significant risks to the world's food ...

Nature Is Changing as Land Abandonment Increases

Abandoned lands could be both an opportunity and a threat for biodiversity; a recent article highlights why abandoned lands are critical in the assessment of global restoration and conservation ...

Beetles and Their Biodiversity in Dead Wood

Which energy type promotes the biodiversity of beetles living in dead wood in the forest? That depends entirely on where the beetles are in the food ...

Exploring the Underground Connections Between Trees

Fungal networks interconnecting trees in a forest is a key factor that determines the nature of forests and their response to climate change. These networks have also been viewed as a means for trees ...

Small Wildlife Surveys Can Produce 'Big Picture' Results

Small-scale wildlife surveys can reveal the health of entire ecosystems, new research ...

Archaea in a Warming Climate Become Less Diverse, More Predictable

Using a long-term multifactor experimental field site researchers showed that experimental warming of a tallgrass prairie ecosystem significantly altered the community structure of soil archaea and ...

Vanishing Glaciers Threaten Alpine Biodiversity

With glaciers melting at unprecedented rates due to climate change, invertebrates that live in the cold meltwater rivers of the European Alps will face widespread habitat loss, warn researchers. Many ...

Fossil Find in California Shakes Up the Natural History of Cycad Plants

According to researchers, a new analysis of an 80-million-year-old permineralized pollen cone found in the Campanian Holz Shale formation located in Silverado Canyon, California, offers a more ...

New Research Redefines Mammalian Tree of Life

Scientists from around the globe are using the largest mammalian genomic dataset in history to determine the evolutionary history of the human genome in the context of mammalian evolutionary history. ...

Elephant Ecosystems in Decline

全球空间亚洲象栖息地in rapid decline since the 1700s, a new report reveals. More than 3 million square kilometers of the Asian elephant's historic habitat range has ...

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Ant Mounds Are More Important for Biodiversity Than Previously Thought

The ant mounds on the heath, in the forest and in your garden are oases for life. The heat and nutrients from ant mounds make them the perfect home for unique plant and animal species, according to ...

Researchers Explore Techniques to Successfully Reintroduce Captive Birds Into the Wild

Studies show that some species may require breeding in captivity within the next 200 years to avoid extinction. This reality places heavy importance on the reintroduction practices used to ...

Abundance of Urban Honeybees Adversely Impacts Wild Bee Populations

Researchers argue that the rapid growth in urban honeybee-keeping over the past decade may be negatively impacting nearby wild bee populations. Small bees with limited foraging ranges may be ...

Mysterious Underwater Acoustic World of British Ponds Revealed in New Study

The previously hidden and diverse underwater acoustic world in British ponds has been uncovered by a team of ...

Neuroptera: Greater Insect Diversity in the Cretaceous Period

An LMU team has studied the biodiversity of larvae from the insect order neuroptera over the past 100 million ...

Newly Sequenced Hornet Genomes Could Help Explain Invasion Success

The genomes of two hornet species, the European hornet and the Asian hornet (or yellow-legged hornet) have been ...

The Climate Crisis and Biodiversity Crisis Can't Be Approached as Two Separate Things

Anthropogenic climate change has, together with the intensive use and destruction of natural ecosystems through agriculture, fishing and industry, sparked an unprecedented loss of biodiversity that ...

The Diversity of Present Tree Species Is Shaped by Climate Change in the Last 21,000 Years

A new global survey of 1000 forest areas shows how climate change since the peak of the last ice age has had a major impact on the diversity and distribution of tree species we see today. The results ...

Swimming Secrets of Prehistoric Reptiles Unlocked by New Study

The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been ...

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