A surprising win-win: Intensive vanilla farming and biodiversity conservation
Vanilla farms help boost the number of species found on land previously cleared for agriculture in Madagascar, scientists find.
Vanilla farms help boost the number of species found on land previously cleared for agriculture in Madagascar, scientists find.
Using tiny, cheap recorders, sound processing software, and satellite imagery, he showed that even intensively managed landscapes can sustain biodiversity
Scientists predicted that urban male song sparrows would spend less time taking care of their young than country sparrows. They had it backwards.
Researchers experiment with increasing the acoustic carrying capacity of a park
In a recent paper, researchers argue it's time for a new field: fence ecology.
Scientists dub it the compression hypothesis, a phenomenon that could have implications for everything from animal reproduction to the spread of diseases.
Sharks attack very few people—but current mitigation efforts kill a lot of sharks. Is blimp-based surveillance a better option?
Prioritizing terrestrial species leaves freshwater ones behind — but the opposite isn't true.
A new study on the topic uncovered some surprises, such as the leading role of flightless mammals in spreading rainforest seeds.