PROF. SHELFORD is one of the best-known American students of animal ecology. It will be remembered that, more than twenty years ago, he published a number of studies on the relations between the ...

Human biomass movement may be up to 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined, according to research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. An accompanying Nature Communications paper ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Habitat conversion in production landscapes is among the greatest threats to biodiversity, not least because it can disrupt animal movement.

1. Trait-based approaches represent a promising way to understand how trophic interactions shape animal communities. The approach relies on the identification of the traits that mediate the linkages ...

That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique features of Africa’s ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from ...

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) has compiled a virtual collection of research related to the ecology of infectious diseases, and offers a list of scientific experts available for comment and ...

Norman Owen-Smith previously received funding from Sough Africa's National Research Foundation That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique ...

About two-thirds of emerging infectious diseases in humans — including COVID-19, SARS, MERS, Ebola, HIV, Zika, H1N1, cholera and almost all recent epidemics — came from animals. And 70% of those ...

Marc Bekoff, featured in Animal Odd Couples, on the scientific study of animal emotions. Dr. Marc Bekoff, former Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado featured in ...

Animals like rabbits, house cats and deer are neither nocturnal nor diurnal. Instead, they're crepuscular. Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology ...