New research published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution by scientists from Australia and Mexico reveals the world's first complete angiosperm "time tree"—a reconstruction of the evolution of ...

Scientists are taking a new look at Earth patterns, studying the biodiversity of yard plants in the US and that of desert mammals in Israel, studying where flowers and bees live on the Tibetan ...

How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth? Date: December 1, 2009 Source: Wiley-Blackwell Summary: Scientists have discovered the evolutionary step which allowed flowering plants to become ...

As human land-use changed, industries and automobiles continued to steadily emit carbon dioxide that contributed to a botanical boom that further removed carbon from the atmosphere. Although a ...

Short for biological diversity, biodiversity is the range of variation found among microorganisms, plants, fungi, and animals. Some of this variation is found within species, such as differences in ...

Longer growing seasons may sound beneficial. Trees may take up more carbon and offer better shade. But there are downsides. A ...

Will loss of plant diversity compromise Earth's life-support systems? ... This Biodiversity Special Issue looks at taxonomy and systematics, evolutionary biology and biogeography, ecology, ...

The word “ecology” did not exist when Charles Darwin published his journal, The Voyage of the Beagle, but one can argue that Darwin’s account launched ecology as a discipline.

Earth is a uniquely fire planet, and humanity a uniquely fire creature, and the ecology of their interactions is both ancient and profound. Fire is an ecological shape-shifter. As a reaction, not ...

This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to ...

"If we stick to the Paris Agreement to combat climate change, we may lose fewer than 2 out of every 10 plant and animal species on Earth by 2070," said study co-author John J. Wiens of the ...