Understanding the origins and preservation of biodiversity is crucial as human impact continues to threaten our planet's rich variety of life. Often overlooked, narrow-ranged and evolutionary unique ...

Biodiversity exhibits consistent patterns across spatial and environmental gradients, with species richness generally peaking in the tropics and declining towards higher latitudes. Within these broad ...

A study published in Water Biology and Security has revealed the spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity in four taxonomic groups – fish, macroinvertebrates, zooplankton and phytoplankton – ...

A new study titled "Geographical patterns and determinants of insect biodiversity in China" and published in Science China Life Sciences has been led by Prof. Fuwen Wei (Institute of Zoology, Chinese ...

From species extinctions to shifting climate patterns, the Data Diversity Lab combines ecology, spatial sciences and collaborative research to tackle some of the planet’s most pressing environmental ...

Life exists in every conceivable environment on Earth, from the peaks of towering mountains to the remote stretches of isolated islands, from sunlit surfaces to the darkest depths of the oceans. Yet, ...

More than four decades ago, field ecologists set out to quantify the diversity of trees on a forested plot on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, one of the most intensively studied tracts of forest on ...

As the latest global biodiversity summit gets underway in Colombia, finance for the conservation and restoration of nature is one of the key themes of negotiations. Global wildlife populations have ...

Human trade and transport have led to the intentional and accidental introductions of non-native species outside of their natural range globally. These biological invasions can cause extinctions, cost ...

CALI, Colombia 2 November 2024 — The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) was suspended in the morning of Nov. 2 but not before countries ...