By Yadvinder Mahli
We live in the shadows of lost giants. Until relatively recently almost every major vegetated land area on Earth possessed an abundance of large animals that we now only associate with African game parks. Mesmerizing early art shows how much these...
By Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau
Migration in animals is one of the most spectacular biological phenomena on the planet. Theory predicts that, to evolve, the benefits of migration (in terms of lifetime reproductive success) should outweigh the costs of moving...
by Zsófia Horváth, Csaba F. Vad, Robert Ptacnik
The Seewinkel region lies on the bordering lowland area between eastern Austria and western Hungary. It has sodic soil and several extremely shallow (<1 m) aquatic habitats, so-called soda pans were formed in...
by Julien Cucherousset
EDITOR*S CHOICE OCTOBER 2015
Multiple anthropogenic pressures including the widespread introduction of non-native species threaten biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Non-native species have been reported to induce ecological impacts...
By Constantinos Tsirogiannis and Brody Sandel
Some species assemblages represent a narrow section of the tree of life, while others include a broader swath. This difference can be quantified with phylogenetic diversity measures, which describe the diversity of an...
A Komodo dragon walks on the beach in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. (Photograph by Achmad Ariefiandy).
By Tim Jessop, Deni Purwandana, Achmad Ariefiandy and Claudio Ciofi.
Across islands, animals may experience marked local environmental...
Among individual variation exemplified by alternative colour morphs of the pygmy grasshopper Tetrix subulata (photograph by Anders Forsman).
by Anders Forsman and Lena Wennersten
A better understanding of the causes and consequences of the...
Modelled distribution of a unicorn whose dispersal was limited to Great Britain and Ireland. Illustration SNGT.
In 1990, Stuart H. Hurlbert analysed the “Spatial Distribution of...
A fifth-instar nymph of the blood-sucking bug Triatoma infestans placed inside the respirometry chamber (photograph by Diana Martinez Llaser).
by Gerardo J. de la Vega and Pablo E. Schilman
Several climate-based hypotheses have been proposed to...
Photo of common linnet (Linaria cannabina) photographed at Sallandse Heuvelrug, the Netherlands by J. Swiebe (waarneming.nl).
by Martijn Hammers
Some conservation programs are more successful than others, but we still have little understanding why...
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