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Wild Animals and Ethanol: A New Perspective on Natural Consumption
A new review challenges the assumption that nonhuman consumption of ethanol is rare, suggesting that many fruit- and nectar-eating animals regularly encounter and may …
Model Reveals Optimal Learning Rates for Organisms in Changing Environments
A new model from researchers at the Complexity Science Hub and Santa Fe Institute outlines how organisms should optimally learn in response to environmental …
Rise of reptiles with global warming since 60 Million Years
Sixty million years of climate change triggered the meteoric rise of reptiles around 250 million years ago, not a mass extinction of mammals as …
How mountain streams signal climate change
A new tool can better assess an important but overlooked indicator of global warming: the variety of bugs, worms, and snails living in high …
Agricultural expansion a major cause to doubling of annual tropical carbon loss over past two decades
Using multiple high-resolution satellite datasets, researchers found that tropical carbon loss has doubled over the past two decades due to excessive forest removal in …
Regrown tropical forests may have short lifespans, says new study
Preventing the re-clearing of second-growth forests is a major challenge for restoration efforts in tropical regions, according to a new study. The study found …
Rare monkey adapts to fragmented habitat by dieting and reducing activity
A team of scientists found that a rare species of monkey in Bolivia has adapted to living in a fragmented forest by dieting and …
How Indigenous burning shaped the Klamath's forests for a millennia
A new study combines scientific data with Indigenous oral histories and ecological knowledge to show how the cultural burning practices of the Native people …
Stemming the tide of invasive species in Great Lakes
New research shows that a bi-national regulation targeting ships entering the Great Lakes since the mid-2000s has been remarkably effective in reducing a large …
Tiny mite triggers domino effect in the high Andes
What happens when a disease disrupts a protected ecosystem so forcefully that cascading consequences are felt by nearly all wildlife and plants within it? …
Human-induced disease outbreak in animals causes cascading ecological effects
A study that investigated the impacts of a mange outbreak that killed vicunas in a protected area in the Argentine Andes found that it …
Cameras reveal snowshoe hare density
The number of hares in a forest is a good indicator of how healthy that ecosystem is -- and now there's a better way …