ecology

Mace led the work to determine the criteria for the IUCN’s Red List.

As shelter-in-place orders quieted the city of San Francisco, its sparrow population developed softer, sexier songs.

Flames and smoke have killed dozens of people over the past month and burned hundreds of thousands of acres, causing massive disruptions.

Data on vertebrate species that have become, or are likely to become, extinct reveal plant eaters are most under threat.

The upcoming summer research season has been suspended amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

An undergraduate research project finds the animals are tuned in to reassuring information from other species.

Asian giant hornets were found for the first time in Washington State and could reemerge in the spring.

The abrupt termination comes after the research drew President Trump’s attention for its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Researchers uncover the “body-snatching” tactics of fungi that flourish immediately after wildfires.

The antimicrobial compounds ants excrete to defend themselves from pathogens may protect plants as well.

Biological production of this greenhouse gas, once thought to be the reserve of anaerobic microbes, occurs in these widespread, photosynthesizing cyanobacteria.

The invertebrate predators prey on and lay their eggs near emerging tadpoles, potentially threatening the conservation of endangered frogs, researchers find.

Meet some of the people featured in the November 2019 issue of The Scientist.

Eastern gray squirrels appear to ease up on vigilance behavior when the birds sound calm.

Bleaching killed 34 percent of the island’s reefs between 2013 and 2017, a study finds.

Water flows between a dead-looking stump and nearby trees on an alternating schedule.

A decade-long study tallies the numbers of pest-eating, flower-pollinating hoverflies that travel to the UK every year, and illustrates their important ecological roles in southern Britain.

After three years with very few new chicks, the birds are abandoning one of the biggest breeding sites on the continent, satellite images show.

Over 30 years, one-third of the wild bees and hoverfly species surveyed sustained losses, likely due to pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change.