Understanding how local species assembly depends on the regional biogeographic and environmental context is a challenging task in community ecology. In spatially implicit neutral models, a single ...

Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 40, No. 6 (NOVEMBER 2017), pp. 1642-1652 (11 pages) Estuaries are valuable fish nurseries due, primarily, to an abundance of food and the provision of shelter in a spatially ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found a critically endangered bird known as the ‘Goldilocks’ of the grasslands in a previously unrecorded habitat niche in South Australia. The ...

Over the recent years, I've been noticing some migratory birds heading north sooner than they did when I grew up in the area. This got me thinking about migratory warblers and how they are alike and ...

Have students locate the Seychelles on a world map or a globe and make some predictions about its climate based on its latitude. Review with students the following concepts: habitat, niche, and ...

The size of a fly's eyes and nose reflect both its behaviour during mating and its habitat preferences, according to a new study published today in eLife. The findings could help explain how new ...

On the rooftop deck above the new Ruby Suites apartments sits a massive, 10-foot-long concrete table with a fire feature down the middle. In one of the adjoining first-floor restaurants is an 4- by ...

The whereabouts of the pint-sized pika, a mammalian indicator species that is losing its alpine habitat to climate change, have been mapped for the first time in Wyoming’s reaches of the Rocky ...