As the world’s nations prepare to set new goals for protecting biodiversity, Yale researchers have identified where data gaps continue to limit effective conservation decisions. In a new study, a team ...

Ants are important for the functioning of ecosystems as they play vital roles from aerating soil and dispersing seeds and nutrients, to scavenging and preying on other species. But a global view of ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State scientific illustrator and ant curator is contributing to a global insect map, while also using his talent to design cover art for a leading scientific journal.

With nearly every step, we move above a vast underground network of fungal filaments, an ancient communication system that predates human civilization by hundreds of millions of years. Now, scientists ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists from the U.S. and South Africa are launching a campaign to map marine, freshwater, and terrestrial species and ecosystems in one of Earth’s biodiversity hotspots: the ...

A study reported in the journal Current Biology showcases the first global map of bee diversity. Designed by a collaboration of international scientists, the map includes the geographic and species ...

Peter C. de Ruiter is at Biometris, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands, and at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam ...

Researchers from Leipzig published a gigantic digital map displaying the full diversity of life through thousands of photos. The so-called LifeGate encompasses all 2.6 million known species of this ...

Aug. 30 (UPI) --Newly published maps have detailed the six major threats to terrestrial amphibians, birds and mammals, including agriculture, hunting and trapping, logging, pollution, invasive species ...

In an attempt to protect global biodiversity, Yale researchers have devised a framework that will identify data gaps in the world’s biodiversity maps that currently limit conservation efforts. As ...

As the world's nations prepare to set new goals for protecting biodiversity, researchers have identified where data gaps continue to limit effective conservation decisions. As the world's nations ...