The reproductive strategies of fish are far more complex than you’d probably expect, and are much more varied than other animals. With so many species sharing the same spaces, some species have found different strategies to survive and reproduce, like hiding their offspring somewhere unusual or carrying them around in the parent’s mouth in order to keep the offspring safer for a longer portion of their development.
Sometimes it is hard to look at the future with optimism. We seem to be facing crises in every facet of life, be it the
Described by the United States Department of Agriculture as the “most expensive animal heath incident recorded in U.S. history”, the 2014-2015 avian influenza outbreak rocked
What does it take to make farmers care about biodiversity? Not much, is the answer. They already care a lot. In which case, what does it take to make them do something about it?
Edward H. Simpson was a codebreaker at Bletchley Park, the home of Allied code-breakers during the Second World War. While you’d think this would be his claim to fame, perhaps his most lasting contribution is his description of Simpson’s paradox.
Solvin Zankl has been a full-time wildlife photographer for over 20 years. Read about how he became a photographer, how he specialized in deep-sea photography, and what his favorite animals to photograph are.
Every year after I am finished with Europe’s largest ecology conference I write a summary of my most memorable thoughts and experiences. Truth be told,
Host-parasite interactions depend on many different factors within ecological communities, and today’s study attempts to disentangle many of those factors to understand why one species is overwhelmingly parasitized
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Boldly going where no forest ecologist has gone before
Discovering Dynamic Distributions - The virtual lab around Jonas Lembrechts
Don't need to be cool to be kind.
Bridging the gap between researchers, practitioners and policymakers
The Plankton and Policy Research Group at Plymouth University. PI: Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop
Ecology for the Masses 