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Personality of geese determines their foraging behaviour Date: May 21, 2010 Source: Wageningen University and Research Centre Summary: When searching for food, slow, shy barnacle geese follow ...
“This adds to the small but growing number of studies showing that individuals matter,” said lead author Jaclyn Aliperti, who conducted the study while earning her Ph.D. in ecology at UC Davis.
In experiments spanning three years and involving over 1,250 human participants and multiple ant colonies, researchers tested different group sizes tackling scaled versions of the same puzzle.
An experiment by University of California, Davis graduate student Daniel Bolnick has captured evolution in action, provided support for a long-standing hypothesis in evolutionary biology, and could ...
Wild bees need deadwood in the forest Date: June 23, 2021 Source: University of Freiburg Summary: Researchers conducted a joint restoration experiment with the Black Forest National Park.
Dr Mika Peck and Dr Alice Eldridge introduce us to soundscape ecology and invite viewers to take part in a mini soundscape experiment being carried out on Springwatch. In wild biomes, a dawn ...
Details of the first ecology experiment have been revealed by researchers who tracked down the manuscript from references in the works of Charles Darwin. The trials, first reported in 1824, helped ...