Aim To assess how environmental characteristics and human impacts contribute to the global prevalence of threatened bird species on islands (the ratio of threatened to non-threatened species per isl...

Stop the dismantling of European environmental protections. Stand up for forests, wildlife, clean air, and safe water - our nature depends on it.

Phylogenetic trees are increasingly used to infer the processes that shape biodiversity patterns, such as diversification, dispersal and trait evolution. However, collecting many samples and seque...

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Birds and fruits often match in traits like size, but this study reveals that such matches weaken in tropical regions. Warmer climates may drive more varied interactions, leading to less strict trait...

Owing in large part to Robert MacArthur’s classic research, wood warblers in the family Parulidae are textbook exemplars of species competition and niche partitioning. Conventional wisdom suggests tha...

In recent years, declines in animal pollinators have stimulated tremendous interest in pollinator-friendly gardening. There is a widespread notion that pollinator gardens are beneficial, but the spec....

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

Study shows funding bias towards animals like rhino while other endangered species including amphibians and algae disregarded

In a tropical agricultural landscape, conserving strips of secondary forests along streams had a positive impact on tree recruitment in young regrowing forests. Surprisingly, this effect persisted ev...

Large seeds dispersed by scatter-hoarding granivores, such as Fagaceae acorns, tolerate partial damage to achieve higher dispersal efficiency. By demonstrating that seed size itself acts as a defensi...

In this new blog post, Marion Boisseaux, a postdoc at University of California State University, presents her work ‘Shifting trait coordination along a soil-moisture-nutrient gradient in tropical f…

Whereas preventing species extinctions remains a central objective of conservation efforts, it must be complemented by the long-term preservation of functional ecosystems and of the benefits humans de...

Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.

Beta human papillomavirus helps the immune system target mutated skin cells, a “provocative” mouse and human study suggests

Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

Plastic pollution in the world’s ecosystems could cost more than $280 trillion in environmental damage. That’s at least $120 trillion higher than the cost of reducing plastic production and pollution.

Non-native species introduced by humans are among the main causes of global species decline—they were partly responsible for 60% of the species that have become extinct worldwide in recent decades. No...

In this study, the authors show that the placement of protected areas is globally highly heterogenous but can be accurately predicted from a reduced set of socioeconomic and environmental factors. The...

Aim We assessed the influence of island isolation on the composition of insular bird assemblages with a particular focus on species traits associated with dispersal. To do so, we tested whether ecom...

Estimates of palaeodiversity are biased by the incomplete...

La Lista Verde, una iniciativa de la Unión Internacional ...