January 2018
Caves are excellent natural laboratories for the study of global changes in environment because of their remarkable ecological and thermal stability. The principal mechanisms underlying...
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December 2017
Tropical frugivore bird communities mainly consist of obligate frugivourous species, which form fairly generalized interaction networks with their fruit plants, i.e. the birds often...
November 2017
The tendency of organisms to form high-density aggregations is a universal aspect of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Euphausiid (krill) aggregations (pictured here a catch of ...
October 2017
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Bartlett Experimental Forest in the heart of the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF), New Hampshire, USA. The WMNF region is mountainous ranging from 114 m in...
September 2017
The Tennessee Warbler (Oreothlypis peregrina), one of the most abundant breeding birds of boreal forests in eastern Canada, is another species considered most likely to become a...
August 2017
Appearing very snake-like, the Greater pipefish (Syngnathus acus) nestles among the leaves of common eelgrass (Zostera marina) in a shallow coastal bay in the Gullmar...
July 2017
Close-up of the characteristic flower spikes of a Banksia species in Melbourne, Australia. Urban areas across the world have seen the partly extinction of the flora historically...
June 2017
A female elephant hawkmoth (Deilephila elpenor) resting on a paeony bud. The moth's name derives from the appearance of the caterpillar, which is said to resemble an elephant's trunk....
May 2017
Awakening early from a mid-day nap and surrounding by adult females in its family, an African elephant calf begins playing with its previously sleeping cousin. Using a graph theoretic...
April 2017
A rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) and a helmeted friarbird (Philemon buceroides) eye each other warily at a flowering Schefflera actinophylla in...
March 2017
Today, few streams are pristine until one goes to high elevations or latitudes, and most streams have a long history of alteration due to climate change and human disturbance. Questions...
February 2017
A cape vulture attacks a trio of black-backed jackals feeding on a carcass. Direct competition of this sort is just one of the factors on our scale of scavenging, a scale which we use to...
January 2017
For centuries followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church have conserved patches of native trees around church buildings as sacred sanctuaries for church communities. Today there are as...
December 2016
Artificial wetlands can be good for some birds such as flamingos which concentrate in salt ponds and fish ponds (e.g. in Doñana, Spain). However, the diversity and proportion of...
November 2016
An adult male American dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) gathers aquatic invertebrates to feed his hungry nestlings on Barnes Creek, Washington, USA. The quality of this food can...
October 2016
An overwintering western monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) at the Goleta Butterfly Grove and Coronado Butterfly Preserve in Goleta, CA. Monarch butterflies in western North...
September 2016
Colouration of insects like of the depicted tiger beetle (Cicindela sylvicola) is supposed to have multifarious reasons ranging from predator avoidance to sexual advertisement....
August 2016
Many widespread species, like this Gallotia galloti lizard on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands) inhabit a diverse range of environments. Local adaptation of...
July 2016
Brazilian reefs encompass the unique coral reef formations in the South Atlantic Ocean. This shot shows a fan worm on the top of a Montastraea cavernosa coral colony on a coral...
June 2016
Chioglossa lusitanica, or golden-striped salamander, is an amphibian endemic species to the Iberian Peninsula. It is a species of Salamandridae family listed as 'Vulnerable' (VU...
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