Species of bacteria, for instance, are hard to define, and the speed at which they mutate means that new ones are forming all the time. As a result, it’s notoriously difficult to estimate how many ...

Social behavior consists of a set of interactions among individuals of the same species. A wide range of sociality occurs among animals. Some animals rarely if ever interact with one another ...

Examples include the elephant's role in maintaining habitat structure, and bats and insects in pollination. By focussing on keystone species, conservation actions for that species may help to preserve ...

Most plants and animals are exposed to a wide range of environmental variations. A study published in the journal Nature and ...

It can be a little counter-intuitive. But we fly-fishers pursue a very wide range of species, from tiny sunfish to bluewater tuna, so specialized gear is necessary, and you have to categorize it ...

Cheap and easy to deploy, snares blanket the forests, endangering not just the saola but a wide range of species. Compounding these dangers, domestic livestock grazes increasingly close to saola ...

These air-breathing vertebrates include a wide range of species. From the much-loved lizards and snakes to the hard-shelled ...

In addition, protecting areas large enough to support populations of animals like bears, jaguars and wolves can result in the conservation of a wide range of species, both animals and plants, as well ...

Angela Gall, marine senior adviser at Natural England, said Cornwall and the South West in general had a wide ... "A lot of species in the South West are just on the edge of their range in terms ...

It has a very wide range of habitats, from rich tropical lowland and hill rainforest to tropical mountain forest, sub-alpine forest and scrub on the higher elevations. It has been designated as a ...

The findings indicate that parasites thrive when they can exploit a wide range of different bird species. Interestingly, the ...