Figure caption: Polar bears travel and hunt on the sea ice, a platform that can drift many kilometers per day. To understand their home range, and that of other marine species, we need to account for drift. Photo by Andrew Derocher
By Marie Auger-Méthé...
Dicerca berolinensis favors sun exposed dead wood of European beech.
By Joerg Muller
Saproxylic insects are strongly influenced by temperature but also require specific dead wood features, and thus interaction between the two factors is likely....
Remote coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean. Remote, uninhabited reefs such as these give us a glimpse into the natural structuring forces of ecological communities in a world without humans and highlight the important fact that not all coral reefs look the same. Natural...
A metapopulation model had three stages: seeds, rosettes, and juveniles. The model included vital rates of Carlina vulgaris individuals when grown in their home territory. To incorporate responses of life history traits to climate change, these rates were altered...
Silk button galls formed by the gall wasp (Neuroterus numismalis) located on the leaves of European Oak. Photo by Riikka Kaartinen.
Large scale pattern of coastal currents for the east coast of North America. Currents are represented as the annual average of current speed (m/s) in grids of 100km, the data was extracted from Lumpkin and Garrafo 2005...
An Adélie penguin look around for an easy access to the sea from Pétrels Island. Photo by Timothée Poupart. by Yan Ropert-Coudert Complete breeding failure of a large number of individuals is a rare event in Nature. So when the 34 000 Adélie penguins from the...
The fairy circles of Namibia are currently subject to a lively debate on their origin, and they provide a textbook example of how progress is made in science. Hypotheses that were commonly accepted are challenged by a set of new observations that favor
Experimental evidence of the major role played by the degradation of environmental conditions in the initiation of dispersal
by Delphine Legrand and Michel Baguette
Dispersal is a key process in biology, from population and community...
The 2014 International Biogeography Meeting in Miami, FL, attracted 409 attendees from > 40 countries. Photo: K. J. Feeley.
Responsible academia: Optimizing conference location to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Written by J.T....
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