The quail's role in the Rolling Plains ecosystem is vital to understanding what is happening in the rest of the biome.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Funding constraints highlight the need for efficient approaches to manage wildlife habitat. One such approach is to monitor a single species ...

In mid-June, California’s State Water Resources Control Board wrote a tragic letter. The board, which has significant powers under California’s Constitution to manage water for the benefit of ...

A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the evolutionary tree and highlighting six new species. Scientists can now ...

Amphibians such as frogs, long considered a leading indicator of environmental health, are not so susceptible to pollution, according to an analysis to be published in an influential academic journal.

Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental conditions, such as soils. Plant occurrence data are typically more abundant ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Measures of changes in environmental contamination by persistent pesticides are required to assess their effects on wildlife and to check the ...

The memorable scenes of loons in the 1981 movie ‘On Golden Pond’ were my first introduction to common loons, but it would be more than 30 years before I saw one in person. While kayaking with my ...

Fishermen ply the waters of the Sacramento River near Redding in October. The winter-run Chinook salmon population has declined down to a few thousand fish that manage to run out of the San Francisco ...