Gone with the birds
Another great post by Salvador Herrando-Pérez. – Through each new species, evolution assembles a unique combination of genes. Ever since living forms have populated our planet (> 3 billion years),...
View ArticleBiogeography comes of age
This week has been all about biogeography for me. While I wouldn’t call myself a ‘biogeographer’, I certainly do apply a lot of the discipline’s techniques. This week I’m attending the 2013 Association...
View ArticleIt’s not always best to be the big fish
Loosely following the theme of last week’s post, it’s now fairly well established that humans tend to pick on the big species first. From fewer big trees, declines of big carnivores, elephant &...
View ArticleSuccessful movers responding to climate change
Ecologists often rely on measuring certain elements of a species’ characteristics, behaviour, or morphology to determine if these — what we call ‘traits’ — give them certain capacities to exploit their...
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