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“#New research shows parasites ‘mite’ help curb the spread of invasive lizards” Credit: Christian Cox, Florida International University Native lizards may have a powerful, very tiny, secret weapon when it comes to resisting invasion by invasive species—parasites. While the parasites can impact the health of the native populations, they also help keep invasive populations in…
“#Study clarifies kinship of important plant group” The “German” gentian (Gentiana germanica). Credit: Maximilian Weigend / Universität Bonn Asterids comprise around 100,000 flowering plants, from heather to tomatoes. Up to now, their family relationships had not yet been fully clarified. A new study by the University of Bonn, Pennsylvania State University (U.S.) and Fudan University…
“#New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora” View of mature forest and mountains taken from the Lae-Madang Highway at Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. (Image: Zacky Ezedin) Credit: Zacky Ezedin New Guinea is the most floristically diverse island in the world, an international collaboration led by the University of Zurich has shown. The study…
“#Climate change may melt the ‘freezers’ of pygmy owls and reduce their overwinter survival” Pygmy owls are small predators. Credit: Erkki Korpimäki Ecologists at the University of Turku, Finland, have discovered that the food hoards pygmy owls collect in nest-boxes (“freezers”) for winter rot due to high precipitation caused by heavy autumn rains if the…
“#Belgian scientists name mantis after Attenborough” British broadcaster and conservationist David Attenborough is a much-loved figure for his natural history documentaries Belgian scientists have named a new “very large and robust” Vietnamese sub-species of praying mantis after British television naturalist David Attenborough. According to the Royal Belgian Society of Entomology, a recent expedition to the…
“#Scientists discover new penguin colonies from space” The smudges on the ice show the existence of an emperor penguin colony. Credit: Image taken from the European Commission’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than was previously thought. The results provide…
“#Monarchs raised in captivity may be worse at migrating than wild monarchs raised outdoors” A monarch butterfly is tested in a flight chamber to determine its ability to orient south, which helps determine its ability to migrate in the winter. Credit: University of Chicago A hallmark of summer, monarch butterflies are a familiar sight in…
“#Why aren’t sea trout thriving anymore?” Researchers in Norway will be checking large numbers of trout to figure out what factors are the greatest disrupters of the wild fish. With this information, researchers might be able take action to help increase the sea trout population again. Credit: Sindre Håvardstein Eldøy / NTNU Sea trout get…
“#Svalbard Global Seed Vault commences seed experiment that will last 100 years” Five gene banks provide seeds from their stocks for the long-term project on Svalbard, which is coordinated by Nord Gen. Part of the samples will be stored at IPK Gatersleben at minus 196 °C in liquid nitrogen to slow down the ageing process….
“#Studies shed new light on how biodiversity influences plant decay” Scientists have provided new insights on the relationship between plant diversity in forests and the diversity of organisms involved in their decay, such as bacteria and fungi. Credit: Léa Beaumelle (CC BY 4.0) Scientists have provided new insights on the relationship between plant diversity in…