Ecology Archives

How Our Dietary Choices Impact Species Extinction

A research model explains how foods produced with less impact on animal habitats can preserve biodiversity and prevent species extinction.

These books are the current top picks for environmental science nonfiction from the writers and editors at Science Connected Magazine.

Large predators can’t be added or subtracted to an ecosystem like simple arithmetic—many factors shift simultaneously.

Shifts in fish populations show the impact of climate change on Arctic food webs and Indigenous communities as river temperatures increase.

Freshwater shorelines absorb more carbon than previously thought, shifting the estimated balance of carbon sources and carbon sinks.

Sea-friendly plastic is the newest project for material scientists: plastic that can dissolve in water to reduce microplastic pollution.

Giant ground sloths are extinct now, but scientists uncover what environmental factors helped them evolve in the first place.

Scientists test protein upcycling by using maize leftovers to grow mushrooms, then using the more nutritious by-product to feed earthworms.

More data on the activity patterns of newly hatched sea turtles in the water may be crucial for sea turtle conservation efforts.

Ecology

This invasive species threatens agriculture but perhaps for not much longer, as trained dogs can detect their eggs in vineyards and forests.