An innovative new method of estimating the density of snake populations without employing the capture-mark-recapture technique has been created by a biologist. How can researchers determine the number ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — One person can’t measure all the trees in the world, but when many people come together, a global view becomes possible. A worldwide collaboration of scientists has produced the ...

Recording every individual in a population is impractical, unnecessary, and expensive (Magurran 1988). Instead community ecologists and scientists in general take replicated samples to represent the ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. "The oceans cover 70 percent of the surface of our planet, and yet they are still the least explored," says Sir ...

Think you know birds? Think again. The number of avian species in the world soars to 18,000, a new report outlines. New research led by the American Museum of Natural History suggests that there are ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the composition of species communities is also changing. These are the ...

Ecologists are increasingly looking at how richness of traits — rather than number of species — helps set the health of ecosystems Emmett Duffy was about 5 meters under water off the coast of Panama, ...