Taxonomic endemism and phylogenetic endemism are both important measures of biodiversity. The former describes the number of ...
Nature in the Neighborhood The first image that may come to mind when someone mentions biodiversity is a tropical rainforest ...
For decades, scientists have observed a clear pattern across the natural world: biodiversity tends to be higher near the ...
Tropical forests that sit inside wildlife-friendly surroundings retain far more mammal species than those hemmed in by ...
A nearly identical bird has been reclassified as a new species in Japan, thanks to advanced DNA analysis and song comparisons ...
A 35-day deepwater research voyage in the Coral Sea has yielded more than 110 new fish and invertebrate species — a figure ...
In 1991, botanists Calaway Dodson and Alwyn Gentry advanced a striking proposition. Surveying a rapidly deforested ridge in western Ecuador, they suggested that dozens of plant species known only from ...
There is a closing 20-year window in which decisions on climate and land use will determine the fate of dozens of native ...
Species are vanishing faster than ever, and many are disappearing before scientists even know they exist. Now, an ...