Researchers rediscover tiny tropical land snails, reclassifying lost species and reshaping the tree of life in Central ...

Data collected by citizen science initiatives, museums and national parks is an important basis for research on biodiversity change. However, scientists found that sampling sites are oftentimes not ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Diversity and Distributions Vol. 30, No. 6, June 2024 Causes and effects of sampling bias on m ...

Scientists used decades old air filters to read DNA in dust, revealing a long decline in biodiversity across northern Sweden.

Despite the accelerating pace of biodiversity data collection, just 42% of nations have expanded their scientific understanding of bird species distributions in the last decade, according to a study ...

Biodiversity macroecology deals with the commonly measured variables of abundance, distribution, occupancy, and range size across two scales: the local (or α) and regional (γ). There are ca. 15 ...

Holiday moss is turning out to be more than a rustic backdrop for candles and nativity scenes. By trapping fragments of genetic material from animals that pass by or drift overhead, those soft green ...

Rapid advances in sequencing technology are expanding our understanding of biodiversity and evolution in complex plant groups, but access to samples remains a problem. Herbarium material provides a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Much of field biology and resource conservation work includes monitoring biodiversity, whether it is plant growth, animal movement, population ...

Traces of life in the environment reveal ecosystem health, prompting a scientific hunt for them. During her doctoral studies in 2009, Professor Kristy Deiner trudged around mountain lakes in the U.S.