The Park Grass Experiment has had a huge impact on the study of biodiversity and ecology - and this year marks its 150th anniversary. The experiment was set up in 1856 by John Lawes - founder of the ...

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 ...

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.

Nevertheless, “ecology” and “climate change” were outlier concepts when Biosphere 2 was completed in 1991, and some media repeated rumors about the nature of our experiment.

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.

We wanted to understand what was happening in individuals that were caring for a lot of offspring, so we designed the experiment to change the cost.” Research found that even with increased physical ...

“The forest initially appeared to be resistant to the drought," said Lucy Rowland, an ecology professor at the University of Exeter. That began to change about 8 years in, however.