Researchers took a deep dive to understand why certain locations are more susceptible and attractive to invasions by non-native plants or animals, making them prime targets for these species to spread ...
That doesn’t necessarily mean the city has more rats per square mile — only that San Francisco’s rat population seems to have ...
A small population of California burrowing owls is getting a helping hand when it comes to romance—from a team of devoted ...
Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, ...
Kate Rodriguez-Clark is an animal matchmaking guru. Among her responsibilities as a population ecologist for the Smithsonian, ...
A recent paper published in Science magazine by researcher Blanca Barquera, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences at ...
Nearly 3.5 billion people live in the messy transition zone between cities and wild places, where agriculture abuts homes; ...
BOZEMAN – Two recently published studies by a Montana State University ecologist reveal new findings about the relationship between population dynamics of two species of large African carnivores ...
Species interactions — including competition ... Previous research has suggested that coyotes might be limiting fisher populations and, thus, indirectly helping martens, but “we found almost ...
This fact sheet relies on people self-identifying their race and ethnicity in the Census Bureau’s 2023 ACS to describe the nation’s Black population. The racial and ethnic categories used in census ...