Ecosystems
Your City’s Flowers Can Save Pollinators
Study shows how to combine design and ecology to feed urban pollinators.
Ecosystems
Is the Presence of Invasive Seaweed Positive or Negative for Ecosystem Functions?
In the warming Mediterranean, invasive seaweeds may help replace some ecological functions lost as native species decline, revealing a more complex side of marine bioinvasions.
Ecosystems
How Can Overlooked Plants Help Rebuild Ecosystems Transformed by Mining?
Recovery after mining may begin close to the ground, with mosses and liverworts helping new ecosystems take shape.
Ecosystems
Bryophytes Reveal the Hidden Costs of Selective Logging
A forest may remain standing after selective logging, but its hidden biodiversity can still unravel as the largest trees disappear.
Ecosystems
What Happens When a Climate Niche Closes
If you were to travel back in time six thousand years to North America, you could wander through Hemlock forests. There were places where it dominated forests but somehow, in the middle of the stable Holocene, something changed.
Ecosystems
Why Some Plants Need a Bear's Stomach to Sprout
To germinate in India's dry forests, some seeds must pass through a sloth bear's gut. Its digestion softens rock-hard seeds to regenerate native flora, but with an unexpected twist: it also unintentionally helps spread an invasive plant.
Ecosystems
Meet the Brazilian Cerrado’s Greatest Impostor
Researchers discover the first case of floral mimicry in South America, showing how a nectarless orchid poses as a Jacaranda to deceive pollinators.
Ecosystems
Ancient Tropical Mountaintop Plants Bet Big to Attract Pollinators
By tracking 13 species in mountain grasslands, researchers reveal how ancient Vellozia plants synchronise blooms and rely on pollinators to produce viable seeds.
Ecosystems
Flowers That Please People May Also Please Pollinators
A study reveals that the flowers humans love may also be the favourites of bumblebees, but not of thrips.
Ecosystems
Why Do Lemurs Always Return to the Same Tree?
A new study in Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park reveals that seventy percent of individual trees receive only a single visit from lemurs over a year and a half.
Ecosystems
The Amazon’s Invisible Network: How Animals and Trees Sustain the World’s Largest Rainforest
By mapping interactions across more than 5,000 Amazonian tree species, researchers reveal that protecting the forest also means protecting its pollinators and seed dispersers.
Ecosystems
How Climate and Pollinators Shape the Colour Palette of Brazilian Mountain Ecosystems
By seeing flowers through the eyes of bees and hummingbirds, researchers show why the campos rupestres remain so colourful from mountain base to peak.