Research has shown that species considered colourful and patterned are the subject of more studies, and receive more conservation funding

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Abstract. The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) is an international consortium of biodiversity biobanks and collections that strives to standardize

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Trust in eDNA is fundamentally relational. Survey results show that experience increases perceived validity and usefulness while transforming skepticism into more nuanced evaluation, highlighting the....

How did modernizing cheesemaking change the microbes inside the cheese? By sequencing preserved traditional Alpine cheese wheels spanning 142 years from a single Alpine dairy, Somerville et al. trace ...

Populations of the Western honeybee (Apis mellifera) are under immense pressure in the wild in Europe. New research published in Conservation Science and Practice from the University of Hohenheim in S...

During the most recent Ice Age, researchers believe there was a "lost land bridge" between Wales and Ireland.

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Large-scale genome initiatives are transforming biodiversity genomics, but genomes remain taxonomically sparse and difficult to compare across species. Kapli and colleagues argue that natural history ...

The Kunming Biodiversity Fund (KBF) invites UN organizations, together with relevant partners specified in the guidelines, to submit proposals for projects that support the conservation, protection, a...

Users can discover occurrence records using DNA or RNA sequences... Nucleotide sequence searches are now possible through GBIF.org, allowing users to discover occurrence records not only through…

Fern savannahs spread rapidly following the collapse of the forest ecosystem during the end-Triassic mass extinction, setting the conditions for widespread wildfires, according to an analysis of the d...

Drawing on open-ended responses from a national U.S. survey (N = 630) of viewers of Observer, a documentary film featuring scientists engaged in practices of ob...

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

Abstract. In recent years, many high-quality reference genome sequences for arthropod species have been generated. Although most genome papers describe the

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA), the International Barcode of Life Europe (iBOL Europe), and the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) have signed a historic agreeme...

Un photographe et un peintre se retirent dans une cabane entre la Finlande et la Russie dans l’espoir d’y observer une meute de loups. Au fil de leur aventure immobile, la vie sauvage s'offre au regar...

As populations rebound, attacks on livestock and humans are fueling debate over the limits of coexistence

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A kestrel swoops to grab a smaller bird on the wing and eats it, right in front of a group of men in the garden at California Health Care Facility, or CHCF, a prison in Stockton, where the garden has ...

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

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Human-driven declines of top predators can have cascading effects on other species. Here the authors show that the loss of wolves from a landscape has facilitated the spread of the golden jackal throu...

On this International Day for Biological Diversity, themed “Acting locally for global impact,” we are releasing two papers that aim to facilitate the development of a robust network of DNA barcoding p...