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Toxic Pollutants Can Impact Wildlife Disease Spread

Dec. 9, 2020 — Exposure to toxic pollutants associated with human activities may be influencing the spread of infectious diseases in wildlife, according to a new ...

Low Oxygen Levels in Lakes and Reservoirs May Accelerate Global Change

Dec. 10, 2020 — Ultimately, this study is crucial for how researchers, and the general public, think about how freshwater ecosystems produce greenhouse gases in the future. With low oxygen concentrations increasing ...

Symbiotic Relationship Between California Oaks and Mutualist Fungi as a Buffer for Climate Change

Dec. 9, 2020 — 'Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' So goes the first line of Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina.' Little did ...

Marine Ecosystems: No Refuge from the Heat

Dec. 7, 2020 — Over the past several decades, marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as a favored conservation tool. By protecting marine species and safeguarding habitat, these reserves help buffer ecosystems ...

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More Frequent and Extreme Marine Heatwaves Likely to Threaten Starfish

Dec. 14, 2020 — Common starfish cannot survive amplified marine heatwaves projected at the end of the century and experience lasting negative effects from current heatwaves, according to new ...

Artificial Intelligence Helps Scientists Develop New General Models in Ecology

Dec. 11, 2020 — The automation of scientific discoveries is here to stay. Among others, a machine-human cooperation found a hitherto unknown general model explaining ...

Natural Environmental Conditions Facilitate the Uptake of Microplastics Into Living Cells

Dec. 10, 2020 — The environment is polluted by microplastics worldwide. A research team has now discovered that microplastic particles find their way into living ...

How Soil Fungi Respond to Wildfire

Dec. 9, 2020 — When wildfires swept through the North Bay in 2017, a graduate student saw a unique opportunity to study how fire affected his research subject: soil ...

Index Reveals Integrity Issues for Many of the World's Forests

Dec. 9, 2020 — Only 40 per cent of forests are considered to have high ecological integrity, according to a new global measure, the Forest Landscape Integrity Index. The Index was created by 47 forest and ...

Colorado Mountains Bouncing Back from 'Acid Rain' Impacts

Dec. 8, 2020 — Niwot Ridge in the Rocky Mountains is slowly recovering from increased acidity caused by vehicle emissions in Colorado's Front Range, suggesting that alpine regions across the Mountain West may be ...

Global Trends in Nature's Contributions to People

Dec. 7, 2020 — A new study examined the risks to human well-being and prosperity stemming from ongoing environmental ...

Scientists Took a Rare Chance to Prove We Can Quantify Biodiversity by 'Testing the Water'

Dec. 4, 2020 — While extraction of DNA from water samples provides a convenient and non-invasive way to study aquatic biodiversity, reliable evidence that this ...

Coasts Drown as Coral Reefs Collapse Under Warming and Acidification

Dec. 3, 2020 — The coastal protection coral reefs currently provide will start eroding by the end of the century, as the world continues to warm and the oceans acidify. The rate of erosion of calcium carbonate on ...

Leaf Microbiomes Are a Neighborhood Affair in Northern Forests

Dec. 3, 2020 — Leaf microbiomes of sugar maple trees vary across the species' range, changing in accordance with the types of trees in the surrounding ...