Tag: Ecology
How do ecosystems collapse? Our study shows evolution plays a role – and can delay a disaster
It’s not easy to tell when a dynamic system, filled with life, might reach a point of no return.
Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus
Pig-sized hippos and elephants the size of horses once roamed the lush forests of Cyprus – until humans arrived.
As Varroa spreads, now is the time to fight for Australia’s honey bees – and you can help
Australia could still take action in the fight against Varroa that wasn’t possible elsewhere. But to do so, we need to fill urgent gaps in bee research.
Animals keep eating precious plants – we used ‘smell misinformation’ to keep them away
Each year, hungry plant-eating animals do billions of dollars of damage to valuable plants. We need prevention methods that don’t involve killing them.
We need a single list of all life on Earth – and most taxonomists now agree on how to start
Only after a species is identified and listed by taxonomists can it be protected. Yet we still don’t have one globally agreed-upon list of every species. A new 74-nation survey points to the solution.
Two questions, hundreds of scientists, no easy answers: how small differences in data analysis make huge differences in results
246 scientists looked at the same data sets and drew very different conclusions.
Unique study shows we can train wild predators to hunt alien species they've never seen before
What happens when wild native bush rats meet cockroaches they’ve never seen before?
