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Ecology

Shorebirds forage in kelp wrack on a beach in California.

The choreography connecting kelp forests to the beach

The upper panel depicts the coastal forest pre-tsunami, while the lower panel illustrates the forest post-tsunami. Each column represents the percentage decrease in coastal tree cover resulting from the tsunami event (1: no change, 5: 41-50%, 10: 91-100%). In cases where there was a 91-100% decrease in tree cover, indicated by the inset with the black frame in the bottom right image, nearly all trees were toppled by the tsunami. It is important to note that we magnified the satellite images/aerial photographs to assess the percentage decrease in coastal forest cover attributable to the tsunami event.

Mixed forests protect coastal areas from tsunami impacts better than monoculture forests

How some plant species evolved to make ants their servants

With access to a mammoth set of global-scale climate data and a novel strategy, a team from Utah State University identified several factors to help answer a fundamental ecological question: what an animal eats (and how that interacts with climate) shapes Earth’s diversity.

Raining cats and dogs: research finds global precipitation patterns a driver for animal diversity

Ground-up shot of redwoods

How to save plants from climate change? Just ask them

Ohio State leads new global climate center on AI for biodiversity change

Bamboo flowering

Flowering for naught: 120 years with nothing to show

Tractor tilling a field with spoil overturned

Can soil microbes survive in a changing climate?

Researchers found evidence that forests might have been far more important to native wildlife such as extinct dwarf hippos than the grasslands found in the same parts of Madagascar today.

Study Reveals Ancient Forests as Preferred Habitat for Extinct Dwarf Hippos in Madagascar

An unflanged migrant orangutan male feeding on Rotan Tikus leaves (Flagellaria indica) Orangutan species: Pongo abelii

When Orangutans Go Global: The Art of Jungle Assimilation 101

Monarch butterfly. Pixabay

Monarch Butterflies’ White Spots Aid Long-Distance Migration Success

Climate change could lead to "widespread chaos" for insect communities

Climate change could lead to “widespread chaos” for insect communities

A cute little critter

Blood on the Grasslands

Trees seen from overhead

Tree diversity increases storage of carbon and nitrogen in forest soils, mitigating climate change

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