best_contrast() finds the color in y with the highest contrast to the color x.

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Manchester Histories presents an 'In Conversation' event marking the launch of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' (Penguin 2025)

Idiosyncratic decisions during the biodiversity trend assessment process may limit reproducibility, whilst ‘hidden' uncertainty due to collection bias, taxonomic incompleteness, and variable taxonomi...

The University of Essex is offering three Masters plus PhD research scholarships on our Sustainable Transitions doctoral training programme for Home / UK applicants from underrepresented groups.

By predicting the extent of a biological invasion in the absence of timely interventions and comparing this to the current distribution of the yellow-legged hornet, we found that management measures ...

The authors resurveyed a previously sampled set of mountain transects on five continents, showing that the ranges of non-native plant species have shifted upslope in most locations in just 5–10 years.

We show how variation in dispersal ability in island birds worldwide explains variation in a canonical biodiversity pattern—the island species–area relationship (ISAR). Dispersal had scale-dependent ...

A standardized checklist of all known vascular plants shows the distribution of island native and endemic species, identifies their conservation status and highlights the need for actions to conserve ...

Concept summary and flowchart of data to calculate a Plant–plant Interaction Index (PII) map Here, the PII is mapped for the forest herb Geum urbanum based on the realized impact of the competitive g...

Reversing damage to waterways requires sustained effort over time. Storytelling that emphasises inter-generational goals cultivates patience and resilience within communities.

Organisms-related data often appear as counts. The Poisson distribution is the most popular choice for modelling count data, but this distribution assumes equidispersion, which is usually not sati...

The {messy} R package takes a clean dataset, and randomly adds mess to create data more similar to that which you'd find in the real world. This is an easy way for educators to create data sets that g...

AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, are being increasingly used by students in higher education institutions. While these tools provide opportunities f...