Analysing 17 years of data about the movement of nearly 800 endangered purple-crowned fairy-wrens in north-west Western Australia, researchers have for the first time been able to identify exactly how ...

"I’ve heard a lot from people on the ground." Scientists sound alarm after observing troubling shift in animal behavior in urban areas: 'It's never been like this' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Community ecologist Ian Ausprey, Ph.D., has joined the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology at Texas A&M University.

Canadian officials took longer than any country to collect, analyze and submit bird flu samples to an international database ...

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found that the critically endangered regent honeyeater faces hidden genetic ...

Multilevel selection is a controversial concept originally proposed by Darwin. A new study found evidence for it in the wild ...

Jansen and his team aim to bridge the gap between fundamental ecological research and practical challenges in nature conservation and restoration.

SedaDNA can facilitate reconstruction of past species distributions. Here, the authors generate metagenomes from 156 stratigraphically-sampled sediments and use them to reconstruct the history of ...

A study compiled data from more than 76,000 butterfly surveys across the continental U.S. The declines seen in the last 20 ...

Japan’s bird banding data, collected over decades, has largely remained underutilized in avian movement research. Researchers ...

There are more species with only a few individuals, while only a few species are common. “In biodiversity, there is ...

A study finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef produces no less planet-warming carbon emissions than industrial beef.