What maintains stability within an ecosystem and prevents a single best competitor from displacing other species from a community? Does ecosystem stability depend upon the presence of a wide variety ...

Climate change is rapidly altering our environment—and posing major challenges for many animal species. Whether they can ...

When officials make tough calls on which areas to prioritize for conservation, biodiversity is often their top consideration. But there are several types of diversity, and not all of them overlap ...

Increasing tree species diversity is often regarded as a way to make forests more resilient to climate change. However, a new international study led by the University of Freiburg shows that diversity ...

Long believed to be a single, globally distributed species drifting freely across the open ocean, the bluebottle – also known as the Portuguese man o’ war – has now been revealed to be a group of at ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed Freedom of Information requests late Tuesday with every region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The filings aim to get a fuller picture of ...