Family, friends, colleagues and collaborators gathered at UCL on 8 July to open the Georgina Mace Garden, a new public Bloomsbury garden celebrating the pioneering biodiversity scientist’s legacy.

In 2025, the annual meeting of the Population Genetics Group (PopGroup) returned to Sheffield, U.K., for the third time. The timing could not have been mor

Species occupy diverse, heterogeneous environments, which expose populations to spatially varied selective pressures. Populations in different environments can diverge due to local adaptation. However...

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The genome of the Atlas blue butterfly contains ten times more chromosomes than most butterflies, and more than any other known diploid animal. Wright et al. show that this extraordinary karyotype is ...

A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…

Nature literacy has inspired creativity and innovation for thousands of years.

Despite advances in theory and experiments, how biodiversity influences the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems remains debated. By applying new theory to data on 84,695 plant, animal, and...

Different species often malfunction at the same temperature limit.

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Current rates of habitat and biodiversity loss, and the threat they pose to ecological and economic productivity, would be considered a global emergency even if they were not occurring during a period of rapid anthropogenic climate change. Diversity at ...

Different species often malfunction at the same temperature limit.

A key issue in predicting how ecosystems will respond to environmental change is understanding why populations and communities are able to live and reproduce in some parts of ecological and geographic...