Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a nationwide scale -- making it possible to one day track the health and well being of species around the globe.

Traditional methods of measuring biodiversity—such as simply counting the species present—fail to provide the full picture, as they do not account for missing species. To address this, an ...

Property Week has launched its third annual Inspiring Diversity in Property (IDiP) sentiment survey. We need your input to enable us to measure the extent to which words are being converted into ...

Such changes might reflect temporary upheavals in biodiversity that could herald further declines. One critical lesson from this study is that measuring biodiversity strictly by counting species may ...

Pictured (L-R): Barry Lupton, Fiona Nulty, and Kilian Murphy from Biosense. BioSense is focused on using data science and technology to make biodiversity measurement more accessible, transparent, and ...

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has enabled a simple, easy-to-use service for creating and downloading species occurrence cubes based on GBIF-mediated data. The service enables ...

However, biodiversity cannot be quantified by a single indicator. Therefore, scientists employ several techniques to estimate species richness, evenness, genetic richness, and ecosystem condition. In ...

However, our results do clearly indicate that there is still room for improvement at the lower levels of baseball when it comes to making this diverse league truly inclusive, and the current norms for ...

This important study uses a comprehensive observational dataset to provide solid evidence on how genetic diversity and species diversity differentially affect multiple ecosystem functions within and ...

All the countries that have ratified the “2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions” are called “Parties” and together form “the Conference of Parties”.