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Organic farming or flower strips: Which is better for bees?

How effective environmental measures in agriculture are for biodiversity and wild bee populations depends on various factors and your perspective. This is shown by ag...

23 May 2022 news bees | Biodiversity

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Jellyfish’s stinging cells hold clues to biodiversity

The cnidocytes -- or stinging cells -- that are characteristic of sea anemones, hydrae, corals and jellyfish, and make us careful of our feet while wading in the ocea...

13 May 2022 news Biodiversity | cells

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What a salamander virus can tell us about the future of biodiversity amid a changing climate

A new project from two NAU scientists aims to predict the future -- specifically, the future of different amphibian species in the face of an unpredictable environmen...

7 February 2022 news Biodiversity | climate

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Lost birds and mammals spell doom for some plants

In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers have gauged how biodiversity loss of birds and mammals will impact plants' chances of adapting to human-induced c...

17 January 2022 news Biodiversity | birds

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Crayfish and carp among the invasive species pushing lakes towards ecosystem collapse

Certain invasive, non-native species can disrupt lakes to the point of rapid ecosystem collapse, contaminating water for drinking, aquaculture and recreation, a new s...

11 October 2021 news aquaculture | Biodiversity

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A novel fly species described from Finland

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the Zoological Museum of the University of Turku have published in the journal ZooKeys an official description ...

20 September 2021 news animal health | animals

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Transforming marine biodiversity discovery and monitoring

A new system for sampling fragments of DNA from marine organisms drifting in the ocean is set to create new opportunities for research on biodiversity and ways of sup...

14 September 2021 news Biodiversity | ecosystem

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Bird communities threatened by urbanisation

Urbanisation is one of the most drastic forms of land-use change, and its negative consequences on biodiversity have been studied extensively in temperate countries s...

31 August 2021 news agricultural biodiversity | animal

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Location and intensity of global threats to biodiversity

Using a novel modelling approach, new research published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals the location and intensity of key threats to biodiversity on la...

31 August 2021 news agriculture | Amphibians

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Biodiversity: Land use – Threat to and opportunity for bumblebees

Bumblebees largely contribute to the pollination of crops. However, they are threatened by land use changes due to climate change. Long-term simulations made by resea...

23 August 2021 news animal | animal health

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