In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

A new study has revealed that the forces creating mountain ranges can also drive species diversity and the evolution of life.

They have either examined changes in species diversity over time or they were limited to a single ... that compared ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

Human Activities Adversely Affect Communities ... Food web complexity and species diversity. American Naturalist 100, 65-75 (1966). Peterson, C. H. Clam predation by whelks (Busycon spp.) ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also ...

More than a century of habitat destruction, pollution, the spread of invasive species, overharvest from the wild, climate change, population growth and other human activities have pushed nature to the ...

Descended from more archaic relatives, the early true mammals were mainly small insect-eating creatures adapted to nighttime activity ... sudden expansion of species diversity into new ways ...

Paine (1966) had observed that the diversity of organisms in rocky ... appearance were greatly modified by the activities of a single native species high in the food web. These individual ...

From this the number and frequency of alleles determines the genetic diversity of the population. If one population of a species dies out then the species may lose some of its genetic diversity.