The fading of butterflies starts with a quiet absence. It begins with hardly any caterpillars wriggling from plants and even ...

The Center for Biological Diversity has called on U.S. Fish and Wildlife to protect the Bendire's thrasher amid report on ...

A new study led by Cornell Lab of Ornithology researchers at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics shows that ...

Federal protections could soon be extended to a rare Nevada fish that environmentalists say is “barely clinging to existence" ...

U.S. wildlife officials want to extend federal protections to a rare Nevada fish that environmentalists say is “barely ...

The team then set out to compare the genetics of the green anaconda with other specimens elsewhere to assess them as an indicator species for the health of ecosystems, and warned that the Amazon ...

Indicator species are living organisms that tell us that something has changed or is going to change in their environment. They can be easily observed, and studying them is considered a cost ...

Indicator species differ from keystone species, although some can be both. Keystone species are those that have a disproportionately large effect on their environments.

Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental conditions, such as soils. Plant occurrence data are typically more ...