The search for North America’s biggest crayfish has turned a friendly rivalry into a scientific…
Browsing: Ecology
Ecology is the scientific study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environments, from microscopic life to entire ecosystems. It examines the flow of energy and nutrients through food webs, the dynamics of populations and communities, and the impacts of environmental changes—both natural and human-induced. Ecologists seek to understand biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, and the balance that sustains life on Earth. Their research informs conservation efforts, climate change responses, and sustainable resource management. This page showcases the latest findings that reveal how life connects and coexists across our planet.
Even centuries after disturbance, recovering grasslands can remain dominated by a different kind of plant…
Iconic trees in areas with controlled burns are four times as likely to survive extreme…
A Stanford study found that mountain lion visits to Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve set off…
The emerald ash borer is an invasive wood-boring beetle that has killed hundreds of millions…
Chinook salmon need cold water during the first weeks of development for their eggs to…
Red-winged blackbirds largely avoided striking rattlesnakes while aggressively attacking gopher snakes, revealing a striking difference…
The slow inland spread of round goby may give conservation managers a valuable window to…
A decades-old experiment in Victoria’s mountain ash forests is challenging assumptions about the trade-offs between…
A dolphin rises from the water carrying an empty seashell in its jaws, but the…
Bonnethead sharks start life with pointed heads, but females undergo a striking transformation as they…
A parasitic plant on a Japanese island has found an unlikely way to send its…
A hidden ecosystem beneath Michigan contains abundant fungi and other complex life that may affect…
ASU researchers found that genetics alone cannot explain the origins of eusociality. Inside an ant…
Scientists and citizen volunteers discovered two new snail species in northwestern Montenegro, revealing the region’s…
Weather extremes may be contributing to an unusually quiet summer for Britain’s ecologically important social…
A tiny coffee pest may be building the perfect hideout for its own predators. Coffee…
More than 1,500 stranded ships could soon carry an ecological crisis from the Persian/Arabian Gulf…