One dataset used in the study looked at tree species abundance in the United States. Virginia’s forests, among the nation’s ...

Common bedbugs experienced a dramatic jump in population size about 13,000 years ago, around the time humans congregated in the first cities.

A research team led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has developed a novel catalytic membrane that can substantially ...

The genomic mechanisms that enable or limit the evolution of major changes remains one of the great questions ... and re-evaluating unbiased measures of diversity in overlooked groups of organisms.

Now Drexel researchers have developed a simple DNA PCR-based lab test - built on a more detailed genetic analysis of the main group of bacterial organisms that cause the infection - to help ...

"We analyzed the effects of the five main human impacts on biodiversity ... a strong impact on biodiversity worldwide, in all groups of organisms and in all ecosystems." On average, the number ...

To visually represent the distribution of aquatic biodiversity in the Wujiang River, we classified the detected aquatic organisms into five major groups, including fish, amphibians, benthic organisms, ...

These species are distributed within the following major groups as follows ... these values and the statistical particularities that a certain organism could have, we kept only those groups that had ...

The evolutionary relationships between organisms are often represented ... of wings (in most but not all species). This group includes spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites. Arachnids typically have ...

Small organisms are also ancient and incredibly ... Plot the size distribution for nearly any major group of animals and you will find a strikingly positive skew: most species are much closer ...

But one unassuming group of organisms managed to weather the unrelenting ... that a basic line can be drawn between two of Earth’s main kinds of life. On one side there are the autotrophs ...