Ecology, The Environment and Conservation
This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.
innovations-report offers informative reports and articles on topics such as climate protection, landscape conservation, ecological systems, wildlife and nature parks and ecosystem efficiency and balance.
Scientists to discover why flamingos are in the pink of health – in the poo!
Dr David Harper, of the Department of Biology at the University of Leicester, has been studying lesser flamingos for nine years. His research has been carried…
Alarming growth in expected CO2 emissions in China
Previous estimates, including those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say the region that includes China will see a 2.5 to 5 percent…
Amphibians respond behaviorally to impact of clear cutting
The number of amphibians drastically decreases in forest areas that are clearcut, according to previous studies. A University of Missouri researcher, however,…
Scientists believe photograph depicts wolverine in California
Katie Moriarty, a wildlife biology student, was conducting research on another carnivore called the American marten when a remote-controlled camera she set…
Marine bacteria's mealtime dash is a swimming success
The behavior of bacteria at these small scales could have global implications, possibly even impacting the oceans’ health during climate change.Scientists in…
Warmer springs mean less snow, fewer flowers in the Rockies
David Inouye (University of Maryland) used data gathered in the Rockies from 1973 to the present to uncover the problem. Writing in the journal Ecology, he…