A SEM image of part of a calcified colony showing the individual functional units called zooids with brood chambers (ovicells) and defensive structures (avicularia...
An Eristalis taeniops hoverfly photographed feeding on a flower having just flown over 100 km from the Middle East to Cyprus. This hoverfly was part of a...
The Malabar grey hornbill (Ocyceros griseus) is a hornbill species that is endemic to the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot (photographed in a forest...
Reintroduced agouti individual (Dasyprocta leporina) and its wild-born offspring in Tijuca National Park, Brazil. Agoutis were one of the four frugivore...
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos is an endangered reef-associated shark distributed across the tropical Indo-Pacific. Based on 515 shark samples genotyped for...
Warty toad (Rhinella spinulosa) in amplexus in Altiplano of northern Chile. Warty toads are widely distributed across the Andes highlands of South America, making them a good...
Beaver (Castor fiber) in the Oder Delta rewilding site in the Peene valley, Peene river, Anklam, Germany. Beavers are keystone species in many European...
Bison (Bison bonasus) in a rewilding site in De Maashorst, the Netherlands. Extensive efforts have ensured that bison were brought back from the brink of extinction last century...
In tropical shallow marine environments, reef-building corals are foundation species. They are the primary constructors of the three-dimensional physical structure that favors a high...
Graptopetalum rusbyi (Greene) Rose (Family: Crassulaceae), found in Finger Rock Canyon (Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona). Full open access article...
A broad conceptual model (upper portion) linking the effects of abiotic factors on biotic factors (functional trait diversity and identity), and then their joint effects on aboveground...
An aerial view of ice forming on a beaver pond complex during late fall in northern Minnesota, USA. Ecosystem engineers are organisms that alter ecological...
White rhino and other megaherbivores can strongly influence vegetation structure and biodiversity for instance. However, there are still major gaps and biases in...
A conceptual overview of the RangeShifter platform for the spatially-explicit simulation of individual-based models: The simulation runs on provided input maps...
A microscope image of a front on view of the copepod Euchaeta marina, which was one of the 384 species of copepods used in our study. We assembled nearly 100 000 continuous...
A intertidal communty formed by species such as blue mussels and ascophyllum nodosum exposed to freezing temperatures during a winter low tide in southern Greenland. Full paper...
Diatoms (Eunotia sp.) growing on a red alga (Batrachospermum sp.). Algae form the base of the food chain in stream ecosystems and are instrumental in maintaining water...
A tower of giraffes in Arusha National Park, Tanzania. Tropical regions in eastern Africa represent global hotspots of mammal genetic diversity and are highly exposed to mid-21st century...