Science

Russ Pym
Climate
Scientists call for climate projections as part of more robust biodiversity conservation
phys.org - by The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Scientists have called for the use of climate projections in conservation planning, to ensure that areas most at risk from biodiversity loss and …
2 days ago
Russ Pym
Biology
Exceptional preservation of mid-Cretaceous marine arthropods and the evolution of novel forms via heterochrony
sciencemag.org
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3 days ago
Russ Pym
Habitats
A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets
nature.com - Louise Mair
The Convention on Biological Diversity’s post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework will probably include a goal to stabilize and restore the status of …
Apr 8
Russ Pym
Open Access
Top 100 in Ecology
nature.com
Collection | 31 March 2021 This collection highlights our most downloaded* ecology papers published in 2020. Featuring authors from aroud the world, …
Mar 31
Russ Pym
Chromosomes
Denisovans
newscientist.com
Denisovans (pronounced de-knee-soh-vans) are a group of ancient humans. Our first tantalising glimpse of the Denisovans came in 2010 with genetic …
Mar 24
Russ Pym
Neanderthals
The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth's other humans
newscientist.com - Michael Marshall
Tom Higham ASK any well-informed human living up to 40,000 years or so ago if they were the only intelligent being around, and they would have …
Mar 24
Russ Pym
Physical Geography
Rare fossilized algae, discovered unexpectedly, fill in evolutionary gaps
phys.org - Geological Society of America
When geobiology graduate student Katie Maloney trekked into the mountains of Canada's remote Yukon territory, she was hoping to find microscopic …
Mar 23
Russ Pym
Fossils
Evolutionary study suggests prehistoric human fossils 'hiding in plain sight' in Southeast Asia
theconversation.com - João Teixeira and Kristofer M. Helgen
Island Southeast Asia has one of the largest and most intriguing hominin fossil records in the world. But our new research suggests there is another …
Mar 23
Russ Pym
Fossils
New evidence in search for the mysterious Denisovans
phys.org - Kelly Brown
An international group of researchers led by the University of Adelaide has conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of …
Mar 23
Russ Pym
Genes
Genes of 500 million-year-old sea monsters live inside us
Live Science - Cameron Duke
They looked nothing like us, but their genes live inside us still. More than half a billion years ago, headless sea creatures that looked like leaves, …
Mar 23
Russ Pym
Lack of support for Deuterostomia prompts reinterpretation of the first Bilateria
sciencemag.org
The bilaterally symmetric animals (Bilateria) are considered to comprise two monophyletic groups, Protostomia (Ecdysozoa and the Lophotrochozoa) and …
Mar 20
Russ Pym
Evidence for sponges as sister to all other animals from partitioned phylogenomics with mixture models and recoding
nature.com - Anthony K. Redmond, Aoife McLysaght
Resolving the relationships between the major lineages in the animal tree of life is necessary to understand the origin and evolution of key animal …
Mar 19
Russ Pym
These 10 Golden Rules for Planting Trees Could Help Save the Planet
ecowatch.com - By Lynsey Grosfield
• Forests are not only complex ecosystems and habitats for wildlife, they are also central to the livelihoods of around 2 billion people. • The critical …
Mar 14
Russ Pym
Eutrophication: Causes, Consequences, and Controls in Aquatic Ecosystems | Learn Science at Scitable
nature.com
Eutrophication is characterized by excessive plant and algal growth due to the increased availability of one or more limiting growth factors needed …
Mar 10
Russ Pym
Scientists Create Self-Replicating Chemicals to Help Explain the Origins of Life
VICE - Mordechai Rorvig
An enduring question about how we got here is how a vat of primordial chemicals might have turned into life. Now, scientists are attempting to pull it off themselves. One of the most enduring questions...
Mar 10
Russ Pym
A multiscale view of the Phanerozoic fossil record reveals the three major biotic transitions
nature.com - Alexis Rojas, Joaquin Calatayud, Michał Kowalewski, Magnus Neuman, Martin Rosvall
The hypothesis of the Great Evolutionary Faunas is a foundational concept of macroevolutionary research postulating that three global …
Mar 8
Russ Pym
This Week in History: Studying B.C.'s marine biodiversity close to home
cheknews.ca - Veronica Cooper
Heidi Gartner has a fascinating job. As the invertebrate collection manager at the Royal BC Museum, her job is to study the biodiversity of the coast, …
Mar 6
Russ Pym
science-based companion planting: 'plant partners,' with jessica walliser
awaytogarden.com - by margaret
YOU’VE HEARD the expression “companion planting,” as in: What plants supposedly “love” growing alongside what other plants? But how many such …
Mar 6
Russ Pym
An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago
nature.com - William E. Banks, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Jean-Paul Raynal, Marlon E. Cobos, Daniel Romero-Alvarez, Marie-Noëlle Woillez, Jean-Philippe Faivre, Brad Gravina, Francesco d’Errico, Jean-Luc Locht, Frédéric Santos
Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal populations occupied Eurasia for at least 250,000 years prior to the arrival of anatomically modern humans. While a …
Mar 5
Russ Pym
Comprehensive comparative morphology and developmental staging of final instar larvae toward metamorphosis in the insect...
nature.com - Genta Okude, Takema Fukatsu, Ryo Futahashi
The order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) is among the most ancestral groups of winged insects with drastic morphological changes upon …
Mar 4
Russ Pym
How 'great' was the great oxygenation event?
phys.org - Weizmann Institute of Science
Around 2.5 billion years ago, our planet experienced what was possibly the greatest change in its history: According to the geological record, …
Mar 1
Russ Pym
Researchers solve puzzle of water-to-land transition of vertebrates
phys.org - Liu Jia
The water-to-land transition is a leap in the history of vertebrate evolution and one of the most important scientific issues in vertebrate …
Feb 26
Russ Pym
Paleontologists discover major new insect group after solving 150-year-old mystery - SFU News - Simon Fraser University
sfu.ca
Damselflies have short and wide heads with eyes distinctively protruding far to each side. Hagen’s fossil, however, had an oddly rounded head and …
Feb 24
Russ Pym
Paleontologists discover new insect group after solving 150-year-old mystery
phys.org - Simon Fraser University
For more than 150 years, scientists have been incorrectly classifying a group of fossil insects as damselflies, the familiar cousins of dragonflies …
Feb 24
Russ Pym
Single-cell organism's memories change our understanding of intelligent life
Inverse - Tara Yarlagadda
Slime research may not be the sexiest science, but produces some truly wild results. So wild, in fact, a new study reconfigures our understanding of …
Feb 22
Russ Pym
Genomic insights into the origin of pre-historic populations in East Asia
phys.org - Max Planck Society
East Asia today harbors more than a fifth of the world's population and some of the most deeply branching modern human lineages outside of Africa. …
Feb 22
Russ Pym
How many genetic changes create new species?
sciencemag.org
A genetic region that controls coloration generates morphs of Midas cichlid fish, but speciation involves traits controlled by a number of different …
Feb 19
Russ Pym
Healthy rivers: Communities use DNA tool to keep tabs on freshwater quality
theconversation.com - Chloe V. Robinson and Mehrdad Hajibabaei
Photos of Canada often show the Great Lakes, expanses of wetlands and scenic rivers. The country is described as a water-rich nation, and it is, with …
Feb 16
Russ Pym
Exceptionally preserved early metazoans discovered in Mongolia
nature.com - Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community
Mongolia – a mountainous highland plain consisting of more than 40 different tectonic terrains. Many of these are extremely old and can be dated to …
Feb 15