ABSTRACT: Alpine and subalpine belts on continental Europe can be viewed as “islands” of cold-adapted vegetation surrounded by a “sea” of thermophilic species. Carex curvula, a flagship species that ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Kobe University ecologist Shinji Sugiura discovered that the black-spotted pond frog seems to be unharmed and undaunted by venomous stings from hornets such as the Asian giant hornet, the largest in ...

Marie Tosa knows more about the western spotted skunk than almost anyone on Earth. Between 2017 and 2019, as a Ph.D. student at Oregon State University, Tosa trekked all over the H.J. Andrews ...

Kobe University ecologist SUGIURA Shinji discovered that the black-spotted pond frog seems to be unharmed and undaunted by venomous stings from hornets such as the Asian giant hornet, the largest in ...

A remarkable resistance to venom has been discovered in a frog that feasts on hornets despite their deadly stingers. This frog could potentially serve as a model organism for studies on mechanisms ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Today’s northern pike are several inches shorter than their ancestors in Michigan lakes. Blame ...

Logging to ‘Save’ Northern Spotted Owls From Wildfires Will Not End Well Our research shows that spotted owls can thrive with mixed-severity fire, but logging in owl habitat for fire concerns may ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Jim Sweeney stands in his food plot in Leelanau County, where he’s grown crops like clover and ...

A study by the University of Southern California estimates hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic metals have been dumped onto forests during aerial fire retardant drops during the past decade, and, ...

Abstract: As data volume keeps increasing at a rapid rate, there is an urgent need for large, reliable, and cost-effective storage systems. Erasure coding has drawn increasing attention because of its ...