“Estimating the number of species on Earth is among the great challenges in biology,” study coauthor Jay Lennon of Indiana said in a statement. “Our study combines the largest available datasets with ...

Five new Piloderma fungi species have been identified, highlighting forest biodiversity and conservation needs. Although ...

As described in this issue by VerBerkmoes and colleagues, as part of our ongoing series on systems microbiology, thousands of species can now be identified in one experiment, and even variation ...

but how these species manage to live together is unclear. A new study by Dartmouth scientists in Current Biology uses experiments and modeling to delve into how three species of biofilm bacteria ...

With much of the original documentation no longer available, Biology Professor Martin Mathes launched in the late 1970s a project to identify, inventory and map the various species represented. He was ...

Conservation biology has two central goals: 1. to evaluate human impacts on biological diversity and 2. to develop practical approaches to prevent the extinction of species (Soulé 1986 ...