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Newly ice free areas in Antarctica and its consequences for coastal benthic ecosystems

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12 May 2017
Underwater pictures taken on the wall of the new island at Potter Cove. Both pictures were taken between 10 and 15 m depth where a high abundances of filters feeders such as ascidians and sponges were found. Note the aluminum ruler (10 cm long) that was attached to the...

Sleeping with the enemy: elephants alter rest behavior in risky areas

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18 April 2017

By Laura Keating and George Wittemyer

Sleep has been hypothesized to be fundamental to cognitive functioning, and extreme sleep deprivation can have lethal implications. In addition, sleep is one of the most susceptible times of day for an animal...

Making sense of of community phylogenetic metrics and null models

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20 March 2017
A rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) and a helmeted friarbird (Philemon buceroides) eye each other warily at a flowering Schefflera actinophylla in Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia. Photo by Bryan Suson....

Plant traffic along mountain roads

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13 March 2017
Gravel road through Torres del Paine National Park in the Chilean Andes

 

Editor's choice March 2017

By Jonas Lembrechts

Roads help us to get from point A to point B. They are extremely useful structures for doing exactly...

New Deputy EiC hanna Tuomisto

I am a botanist interested in many aspects of ecology and biogeography. My research is mainly focused on rain forest ecology in Amazonia, especially to clarify drivers of plant community composition, broad-scale floristic patterns and the evolutionary origin of Amazonian...

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