Postdoctoral scholar Patrick Milligan recently published a paper that he started during his doctoral studies and is continuing during his National Science Foundation fellowship in Elizabeth Pringle’s ...

A new study has found that the traditional method used to study ecological relationships between species numbers and land area is flawed. These findings will have a significant impact in the ...

A common way ecologists predict population counts may be an unreliable way of forecasting future bird counts in urban areas, meaning scientists may be overestimating and underestimating the losses of ...

Because the bumblebee that an orchid relies on for pollination does not exist on a remote island, the plant gets pollinated by an island wasp. Researchers found that this came at the cost of being ...

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Not only do wolves and vultures share an unfortunately bad reputation, but they also appear to have a mutualistic relationship benefitting from shared habitats. Research suggests that wolves use the ...

Yeasts have been evolving and diversifying for more than 400 million years. Likely, symbiotic relationships between humans and yeasts started already at the origin of our species (200-300 thousand ...

Living things (organisms) have two broad categories of relationships: active ones that they carry on while they're living (ecological relationships), and passive ones that link them to their past ...

Harold Eyster is a climate scientist for the Nature Conservancy and lead author of the study. During his post doc at UVM's Gund Insitute for Environment, Eyster analyzed datasets of breeding bird ...