By Luis Gimenez Noya
Patterns of distribution of organisms have been traditionally interpreted as resulting from the balance of reproduction and mortality. However, populations of many organisms occupy fragmented landscapes; for instance, animals...
By Gunnar Brehm
New study in biodiversity hotspot studied correlation between size of tropical moths and their elevational distribution
Researchers from three universities have measured more than 19 000 tropical moths from 1100 species...
A new collaboration between Ecography and Frontiers for Young Minds will be bringing the latest ecological research for dissemination with the Frontiers for Young Minds audience.
By the Frontiers for Young Minds team
We are...
by Stefano Mammola
E4 award
A wise man named Socrates once stated a famous aphorism: "I know that I know nothing". Some thousands years later, in the era of internet, satellites and artificial intelligence,...
The King’s Map, a unique map of South Africa produced in 1790 for the King Louis XVI of France, on the observations of the French ornithologist and explorer Francois Levaillant, by M. de Laborde. By publishing journals about his voyages, Levaillant provided us with...
Figure 1. Role of seed origin in buffering the effects of climate change on potential distribution. Potential distribution of two provenances, Darrington originating from cascade region of Washington in North America and Adams lake originating from interior British...
We found that ants emerge throughout the summer, not just on one set day a year. Photo credit: thesun.co.uk.
By Adam Hart
Back in 2012, while digging up a leaf-cutting ant nest in Trinidad for a BBC documentary I was making, I got an...
Fidel Vega, Saslaya National Park, Nicaragua, May 2011. Photo by Michael Branstetter.
By John Longino
MIGUEL! The shout echoes through the forest. It is dawn, in a cloud forest on an isolated group of mountains in eastern...
Optimal and default Maxent models for the Malagasy rodent Eliurus majori (logistic output). Results correspond to the unfiltered dataset (top) and filtered dataset (bottom), and three ways of determining model settings: AICc (left), sequential criteria based on...
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