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How today's temperatures compare to the historic average

Artigo assinado por O Cerrado é uma das maiores savanas tropicais e um dos principais hotspots de biodiversidade do mundo. Com uma extensão original de quase 2 milhões de km²  (Figura 1). O Cerrado…

Metawebs, regional networks formed by aggregating interactions between the species pool of a given region, are emerging as a rapidly growing modelling…

From Wallace to modern species distribution models, biodiversity science has become extraordinarily good at mapping life across the planet. However, a forest is not just trees, birds, fungi, and insects occupying the same coordinates on a map. It is pollination, predation, competition, parasitism, decomposition, seed dispersal, scavenging, facilitation, and countless flows of energy and matter connecting organisms into functioning ecological systems…

Infrastructure is often framed as progress. Roads, in particular, are symbols of connectivity, mobility, and economic development. But ecologically, they are also one of the most pervasive and transformative forces reshaping the planet. This new volume, "Road Ecology - Synthesis and Perspectives", tackles that tension head-on. It offers a comprehensive synthesis of how transportation infrastructure affects ecosystems, species, and landscape processes, while also outlining where the science needs to go next.

Roads promote different positive and negative effects on biodiversity, and consequently on species interactions (mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, commensalism, and amensalism). Yet, such...

Vessels and marine species are, quite literally, on a collision course... and sometimes an image is worth a thousand words. Recently, Greenpeace has shared in Instagram at least a small reel depicting a blue whale trying to navigate heavy traffic in the Gulf od Ancud, Chile (the video was created by Luis Bedriñana-Romano, a researcher at the Austral University of Chile.

For us, roads are beneficial, connecting places, people, and goods. But for biodiversity, roads are far less welcoming: they fragment habitat, affect animal movement, and cause roadkill. Although roadkill is widely studied, we still know little about road crossings themselves. And it is precisely to understand how crossings occur that we developed our new work. Why does it matter to know more about wildlife road crossings?

The expanding global road network creates growing challenges for wildlife due to habitat fragmentation, forcing frequent road crossings during their m…

Conservation efforts have traditionally been focused on saving the rarest, most threatened species, and for good reason. But what if our singular focus on endangered species is causing us to overlook something crucial? I've been involved in two studies stressing this point. The first, published back in 2024 in Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation and led by Pamela González-del-Pliego…

Aim Assess the structural importance of threatened and non-threatened species within European food webs by quantifying their roles in maintaining network connectivity. Location Europe. Methods W...

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A baby was born 217 years ago in Shrewsbury. This child, Charles, would grow into a reluctant revolutionary. At 22, he set out on a voyage that would change both his life and the course of science. Later, he laid out his ideas in a book. Books have a remarkable power: they let their authors whisper their ideas directly into our minds, and they may revolutionise the way we think.

Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

PDF | A ideia de construir um documento gratuito e de fácil leitura, reunindo informações, discussões e perspectivas sobre a biodiversidade e... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Rese...

Ecology in 2025 talked big about transformation, but mostly just optimised business‑as‑usual conservation. Knowledge moved faster, models got smarter (AI moved from experimental applications to wid…

The Andean region in Colombia is heavily populated and has suffered significant habitat conversion and loss, which leads to declining amphibian species richness and abundance. The Colombian Andes enco...

Shipping sustains global trade but poses escalating threats to marine biodiversity, with wildlife-vessel collisions, noise, and pollution endangering species such as cetaceans (whales and dolphins), s...

Uma equipa internacional de investigadores alerta que os efeitos das alterações climáticas, como secas mais intensas e duradouras, estão a pôr em risco da biodiversidade do Cerrado, no Brasil, um dos ...

Due to climate change, the Brazilian Cerrado, a global biodiversity hotspot, is becoming hotter and drier, with longer and more intense dry seasons. This alters biodiversity by altering plant physiol....

In this blog post, author Rafael Dias delves into the world of avian abundance and richness, with a ‘Behind the Paper’ look at his research article “The spatial scaling of multipl…

Rafael Antunes Dias, Vinicius Augusto Galvão Bastazini, Andros T. Gianuca, Thomas J. Matthews This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. In s…

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Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

Fraudulent science is becoming an industry.

The growth of global maritime traffic poses increasing threats to marine biodiversity, including vessel collisions, behavioural disturbances, and poll…

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Our study reveals that roads and traffic not only cause direct wildlife mortality but also destabilise entire ecological networks by altering predator-prey interactions. By mapping high-risk areas for...