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Mapping global biodiversity change

Published: 17 October 2019

A new study, published in Science, which focuses on mapping biodiversity change in marine and land ecosystems shows that loss of biodiversity is most prevalent in the tropic, with changes in marine...

The importance of 鈥榚dge populations鈥 to biodiversity

Published: 17 December 2018

More than two-thirds of Canada鈥檚 biodiversity is made up of species that occur within the country鈥檚 borders only at the very northern edge of their range. Biologists have long debated how much...

The spiders who came in from the cold

Published: 29 October 2018

A sprawling study of spiders across northern Canada has turned up more than 100 species in provinces or territories where they had never before been recorded. The findings, by researchers from...

Borrowing a leaf from biology to preserve threatened languages

Published: 13 December 2017

One of the world鈥檚 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half 鈥 including scores of indigenous North American languages -- might not survive the 21st century, experts say. To preserve as...

As climate warms, mice morph

Published: 27 November 2017

New research by 海角社区 biologists shows that milder winters have led to physical alterations in two species of mice in southern Quebec in the past 50 years 鈥 providing a textbook example...

Protecting life鈥檚 tangled ecological webs

Published: 9 May 2017

Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat...

Measuring protection of the world鈥檚 rivers

Published: 10 November 2016

To 聽what extent are the world鈥檚 rivers protected? 聽...

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