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...
A wild donkey (Equus asinus) in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona. Photograph by Michael Lundgren.
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By Erick Lundgren et al.
The world was once home to an astounding diversity of...
Figure 1. Bird species assemblage were predicted using the spatially-explicit species assemblage modelling framework – SESAM – that applies successive filters to constrained predictions of richness and composition obtained by stacking species distribution models that...
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CLIMATE CHANGE BIOGEOGRAPHY 20-24 March Evora, Portugal
By Julia Kemppinen
What is soil moisture?
From an ecographical point of view, vegetation patterns are...
By Nicolas Dubos
Recent observation of decreases in the body size of endothermic animals lead to the proposal that body size decline is the third universal response to climate warming (after distribution range and phenological shifts). However, the mechanisms...
Photo: Karen Lone, Norsk Polarinstitutt
By Karen Lone, Benjamin Merkel, Christian Lydersen, Kit M. Kovacs, Jon Aars
Polar bears use sea ice as a primary hunting habitat. Climate change is causing major declines in this unique habitat...
Juvenile Microtus pennsylvanicus, North Dakota
By Quentin Read
Ecologists have collected reams of field data, involving much sweat and toil, to explain how competing species — those with similar diets or habitat preferences —...
Figure 1. Example of co-occurrence network based on presence data. a) Co-occurrence network with locations (green filled circles) and taxa (blue filled circles) and b) Binary matrix of species co-occurrences.
By Francisco...
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