According to a new survey of Brazil’s Atlantic forests, mammal extinctions are occurring at least…
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.
It would seem logical that periods of global warming in Earth’s history started the extinction…
Menopause affects humans, pilot whales, and killer whales. These are the only organisms on Earth…
The analysis of the weapons used by the indigenous people of the Gilbert Islands in…
A newly published study from Yale University scientists suggests that the earliest ray-finned fishes called…
A newly published study by Cornell scientists details how they examined insect species that feed…
A new study from scientists at Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium reveals scientific…
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder believe that nitrogen emissions are altering sensitive ecosystems…
While some mass media outlets are dismissing the obvious global climate change, nature isn’t. The…
While studying extinction threat due to habitat loss, scientists found that the relationship between geographic…
A new study from researchers at Stanford University looks at how to preserve biodiversity while…
A team of scientists, encouraged by a handful of sightings, traveled to Mindo looking for…
The fear of predators in an ecosystem can have a vast impact on soil ecology,…
During a NASA-sponsored ICESCAPE expedition, scientists found a massive algal bloom under the Arctic sea…
According to a new study, ecologists at Brown University have discovered that recreational fishing has…
A new paper by 22 international scientists describes the need for better predictive models based…
With little known about how plants produce cocaine, biochemists at the Max Planck institute set…
Working with populations of yeast growing in test tubes, researchers at MIT published the first…