Forest ecosystems are increasingly confronting the dual challenges of climate change and environmental disturbances. Rising global temperatures, altered precipitation patterns and intensified extreme ...

In recent decades, fungi have emerged as increasingly important players in global health, agriculture, and ecosystem stability. Many species once confined to particular regions are now appearing in ...

University of Calgary researcher Sam Yeaman and his team have determined in a recent study that there are some key genes that are particularly important for how plants respond adaptively to ...

This lecture and field course explores adaptations of animals and plants for surviving the winter in northern latitudes. The course presents species identification, natural history, behavior, ecology ...

The speed of environmental change is very challenging for wild organisms. When exposed to a new environment individual plants and animals can potentially adjust their biology to better cope with new ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

Elasmobranchs (which includes sharks, skates, and rays) have thrived for over 450 million years and survived Earth's most dramatic climate shifts, including the five mass extinction events. Yet, in ...

Based on papers presented at a technical meeting held in Woburn, England in 1990.

As the winter season begins, the natural world transforms in fascinating ways. In Shandong, unique adaptations of local flora and fauna reveal their survival strategies during the harsh winter months.

AMES, Iowa – An Iowa State University scientist is attempting to peel back centuries of adaptations in corn to gain a better understanding of how the plant adjusted to the diverse environments and ...

What would you contribute to the world of ecology and evolution if you could access the combined wisdom of faculty from more than a dozen disciplines that span the earth, biological and computational ...

"Paul Falkowski organized the workshop and was the lead author of the report"--Colophon. "DOE/NBB-0093T UC-402 TR056." "Sponsored by the Offices of Health and Environmental Research and Basic Energy ...