Mild, proactive exposure to environmental stress can help biological communities resist severe disturbances and maintain ...

Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one ...

These findings indicate that Australia’s theropod evolution took a completely different path compared to the rest of Gondwana ...

Long Island native Robert L. Foster spent 12 years working at an environmental lobbying group and uses his experience in his ...

"Over the past seven years, Comox Valley Nature (CVN) has hosted very successful Trees of the Year events, asking residents ...

Earth's journey to its colourful present began over 600 million years ago with the evolution of vision. From plant hues ...

Select the journal/section where you want your idea to be submitted: The idea of ecological security, where large-scale environmental impacts are communicated as a threat to functioning ecosystems and ...

So why evolve bright warning signals when camouflage could also deter predators? The answer lies in the local predator ...

Evolutionary ecology is a field within both ecology and evolution that examines how interactions between and within species evolve. It explicitly considers the evolutionary effects of competitors ...

Using mathematical modeling, researchers have discovered that rate-induced tipping, which can happen if an environment changes too fast, can happen even in Daisyworld, a simple daisy-filled ecological ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

In the spirit of “everything is connected,” a new study found that the extinction of the dinosaurs paved the way for the emergence of fruit, which nourished our primate ancestors. Tapping into this ...