Vertical stratification has long been recognized as a key dimension of biodiversity in structurally complex ecosystems, shaping animal movement and community structure. Camera traps provide a powerfu....

Dr. Volker Rudolf’s group in the Department of BioSciences at Rice University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of Evolution and Behavior. The ideal candidate will have strong ...

Terrestrial subsidies play a key role in freshwater food web structure and ecosystem function. Animal-mediated subsidies in particular provide high quality resources that shape aquatic food webs. ...

Animals are moving bioreactors, assimilating microbial taxa from the environment, which then undergo selective filtering in their gut. Animals then deposit this new microbial community back into the ....

Synopsis. Microbiomes play an important role in physiology and development in cnidarians, but how these communities influence tissue regeneration is poorly

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Tropical forests hold most of Earth’s biodiversity and a higher concentration of threatened mammals than other biomes. This study uses a standardized pan-tropical dataset of 239 mammal species from 37...

A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has shown that the network of no-take marine reserves supply nearly half of the region's trout fishery catches.

Panama’s president said the State Department’s declaration that tolls have been eliminated was a “falsehood.”

The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...

Assistant Professor Biological Feedbacks in the Marine Carbon Cycle

In this blog post, we provide tips and an example template for drafting a one-page project summary you can send to NSF Program Directors to initiate a conversation about your proposed work.   What i...