The biodiversity crisis demands rapid identification and monitoring of species across ecosystems. DNA barcoding, which uses short, standardised gene sequences to discriminate taxa, has revolutionised ...
Two important concepts in evolutionary biology, mutualism and altruism, were first made famous by the colorful anarchist prince Peter Kropotkin. He argued that cooperation could be an equally powerful ...
In 2019, Dr Hayley Clements became the inaugural recipient of the $150,000 Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer (JWO) Research Grant. Her ambitious goal was to map how intact Africa’s continent’s ecosystems ...
A new species of caddisfly, Tinodes lumbardhi, was found in a sidestream of the Lumbardhi i Deçanit River in Kosovo’s Bjeshkët e Nemuna National Park. The discovery, made by Professor Halil Ibrahimi ...
Islands are natural laboratories where evolution can run rampant as plants and animals adapt to new environmental conditions and vacancies in the ecosystem. This creates all manner of unique animals, ...
Silchar: A rare flowering plant discovered in the remote Jatinga Hills of Assam’s Dima Hasao district has opened up fresh scientific evidence of a possible biodiversity link between northeast India ...