Smaller habitats mean even less diversity than scientists thought
Researchers recently found that biodiversity on small patches of landscape is even smaller than they expected. While biodiversity forecasts of certain areas are ...
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Invasive species spread in national parks
National parks are not out of the woods when it comes to being overrun by invasive species. In fact, invasives have invaded about half of the parks that were ...
Sea turtles’ navigation systems may put them off course
Sea turtles use internal maps to migrate to small, isolated islands, but researchers found the turtles’ navigation systems don’t always guide them with perfect ...
Watch: Predatory lizards drive anole extinction
Lizard research on tiny experimental islets in the Bahamas shows that prevailing ecological theory regarding the role of predators in ecosystems may not always be ...
Drones drop toxicants to combat invasive rats
On two islands in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, a conservation group is using drones to drop toxicants meant to eliminate invasive rats that are causing ...
Removing invasive island rats could help coral reefs
Invasive rats are notorious for their devastation of island ecosystems, but their damage might go deeper than scientists once believed. Biologists recently ...