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Study Investigates Role of Ecosystem Engineers in Natural Histories

Study Investigates Role of Ecosystem Engineers in Natural Histories

When individuals envisage engineering in nature, they are likely to think of beavers—the dam-building, tree-felling rodents whose handiwork can mold the landscape by producing lakes and altering the route of rivers.

6 Jul 2020

Climate Change and Rising Water Temperature can Affect Fish Reproduction

Climate Change and Rising Water Temperature can Affect Fish Reproduction

Because fish that are ready to mate and their young are especially sensitive to changes in temperature, in the future up to 60 percent of all species may be forced to leave their traditional spawning areas

3 Jul 2020

Future Climate Feedbacks from Arctic Ecosystems may be Overstated

Future Climate Feedbacks from Arctic Ecosystems may be Overstated

The environmental benefits of taller, shrubbier tundra plants in the Arctic may be overstated, according to new research involving the University of Stirling.

3 Jul 2020

Study Unlocks Mystery Surrounding Unique Aquatic Insects in Flathead Watershed

Study Unlocks Mystery Surrounding Unique Aquatic Insects in Flathead Watershed

In a new study published in the scientific journal Ecology, researchers from the University of Montana's Flathead Lake Biological Station may have unlocked a mystery surrounding unique aquatic insects in the Flathead watershed.

2 Jul 2020

Sustainable Agricultural Practices can Prevent Damages to Natural Ecosystems

Sustainable Agricultural Practices can Prevent Damages to Natural Ecosystems

Scientists have shown how even low doses of neonicotinoid insecticides, as they may realistically occur in contaminated soils, adversely affect the development of black garden ants.

2 Jul 2020

Ecosystems do Not Respond Universally to Fishing

Ecosystems do Not Respond Universally to Fishing

In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers focused on what can happen to ocean ecosystems when fishing pressure increases or decreases, and how this differs between tropical to temperate marine ecosystems.

1 Jul 2020

Climate Change and Other Human Influences are Threatening Survival of Corals

Climate Change and Other Human Influences are Threatening Survival of Corals

Corals are "part animal, part plant, and part rock - and difficult to figure out, despite being studied for centuries," says Philippe Laissue of University of Essex, a Whitman Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory.

1 Jul 2020

New Report Provides Recommendations on How to Preserve Precious Ecosystems

New Report Provides Recommendations on How to Preserve Precious Ecosystems

Scientists at the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) have published a report on the status of coral reefs in the Solomon Islands.

30 Jun 2020

Low-Cost Tool Provides New Possibilities for Understanding Marine Ecosystems

Low-Cost Tool Provides New Possibilities for Understanding Marine Ecosystems

A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists from UCL, ZSL and Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera built and deployed by the team.

30 Jun 2020

Global Warming of Natural Ecosystems Releases More Methane than Expected

Global Warming of Natural Ecosystems Releases More Methane than Expected

New research suggests that as the Earth warms natural ecosystems such as freshwaters will release more methane than expected from predictions based on temperature increases alone.

30 Jun 2020

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