Premise The genus Guadua includes some of the largest bamboo species in the neotropics, with certain species of significant economic importance and used since pre-Hispanic times to build houses usin...

PhD positions Biogeography. Macroevolution. Vertebrates. Department of Ecology, Charles University, Prague Deadline: April 10, 2025 How did the diversity of life on Earth emerge? The successful...

The biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage. The biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage.

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Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena is inevitable, such variation far exceeds what might be produced by sampling error alone. One possible explan...

Premise Considering rapidly changing fire regimes due to anthropogenic disturbances to climate and fuel loads, it is crucial to understand the underpinnings driving fire-adapted trait evolution. Amo...

The PhD will be based at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel and be part of the SNSF Starting Grant Project: “Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change”....

After a volatile and challenging 2024, the latest Global Risks report uncovers leaders’ key concerns – now and in the future. Here’s what you need to know.

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This morning, Elon Musk tweeted the Sierra Club should be “defunded” in an attempt to distract from the climate crisis fueling the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles region. As people flee their...

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...

Rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions — ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ — have marked environmental and societal impacts. This Review outlines observed and projected changes in hydr...

The biodiversity crisis is a risk for our society and economy. Organizations can do something about this by taking biodiversity-conscious steps. But where to start as an organization?

As the long summer days of August turn into nights, a few dozen volunteers gather in the small community of Witless Bay, a tiny town on the Atlantic coast about a half-hour’s drive south of St. John’s...

The National Herbarium of New South Wales has more than 1 million plant specimens including rare species, Australian and Pacific flora, historical and type specimen collections. Access the digitised i...

PRESS RELEASE - In order to better protect ecosystems and biodiversity, several African countries have set up innovative management models in which protected areas are co-managed by government bodies ...

Throughout a year in which Latin America saw elections in six countries and prepared for the biodiversity COP16 in Colombia, the region continued its struggle with extreme weather events, criminal act...

Premise Showy mistletoes are obligate hemiparasites of woody plants. Host specificity is therefore a fundamental determinant of mistletoe diversity, persistence, geographic distribution, and abundan...

Functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity are expected to be positively correlated. Here the authors show that the covariation between these metrics in vascular plant communities around the worl...

Present-day Amazonia has an impoverished fauna of large folivorous mammals by comparison with African rainforests, but recent fossil discoveries suggest that late-Quaternary anthropogenic extinctions...

AbstractBackground and Aims. Herbaria are the most important source of information for plant taxonomic work. Resources and technologies available today, su