A new study argues that temperate zones are hotbeds of evolution, not tropical areas as conventionally held. The research, published in the March 16 issue of the journal Science, says that species do ...

Tropical species will be most at risk from rising temperatures as the discrepancy between physiological thermal limits and projected temperatures is highest in tropical regions, research shows. In ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The influence of regional and local processes on community structure is a major focus of ecology. Classically, ecologists have used ...

This news release is available in German. (Jena) Climate change, environmental pollution or land use changes - there are numerous influences threatening biodiversity in forests around the globe. The ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Why do the rich get richer and the poor stay poor? When it comes to nations, the answers may include frost, according to a study that for the first time links economic and new ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Postglacial vegetation dynamics reflects global warming and cooling as these occur in normal progression through precession cycle. It also ...

Picture a tropical rainforest, with thousands of species per hectare, and it’s quite easy to believe that up to three quarters of all plant and animal species are found in the tropics. But what makes ...

THIS month's number of the Nineteenth Century contains an article on the connection of rainfall with the eleven years' cycle of sun-spots. It takes a carefully-selected area in which such a ...

In late 2015, in the Chilean desert, astronomers pointed a telescope at a faint, nearby star known as a red dwarf. Amid the star’s dim infrared glow, they spotted periodic dips, a telltale sign that ...