How do species respond as the climate warms? Although most research on Arctic animals focuses on economically important or charismatic species like…
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Biodiversity Using Arctic Shrews and Their Parasites to Understand the Effects of Climate Change
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Citizen Science Citizen Science and Tequila Help Bring an Endangered Bat Back From the Brink
Collaborative conservation efforts, including research, bat-friendly tequila production, and citizen science, have led to the recovery of an endangered southwest bat. Last…
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Biodiversity Wild Thoughts on the Wild
A guest post from Dr. Anita George, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane Australia People love learning about…
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Ecology Reunited and It Feels So Good: How Cheetahs Find Each Other After Separation
In the first study to track the detailed movements of cheetahs in a coalition, researchers from the Royal Veterinary College, UK, and…
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Ecology Giant Coconut Crabs Pinch Harder Than Most Animals Bite
The claws of coconut crabs can pinch with the strongest force of any crustacean, also exceeding the bite force of most land…
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Biodiversity A day in the park–tracking mercury with dragonfly larvae
Mercury is a toxic element that can adversely impact human and wildlife health. And while it can be found as an introduced…
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Biodiversity Augmenting the Reality of Ecology Education
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Uma Nagendra, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft…
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Biodiversity Leveraging the Power of Biodiversity Specimen Data for Ecological Research
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Caitlin McDonough, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft…