A Biodiversity Strategy assessment has been released, revealing that progress needs to be accelerated to meet long-term goals ...

An analysis of 900 species over a 20-year period showed that biodiversity enhances ecosystem stability and helps safeguard natural communities in a changing environment.

Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health ...

They compared this “potential community” with the species that actually grew on the ground. Conventional approaches to measuring biodiversity, which focus solely on counting the species currently ...

It represents a new perspective in ecology because a simple equation can incorporate all aspects of α-diversity, from richness to dominance and can be also related to a measure of species rarity. In ...

To measure biodiversity, the study looked at species richness (how many different species are in an area), total abundance (how many individuals there are of each species), and the geographical ...

To measure biodiversity, the scientists looked at species richness (how many different species are in an area), total abundance (how many individuals there are of each species) and the ...