Understanding how local species assembly depends on the regional biogeographic and environmental context is a challenging task in community ecology. In spatially implicit neutral models, a single ...

Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 40, No. 6 (NOVEMBER 2017), pp. 1642-1652 (11 pages) Estuaries are valuable fish nurseries due, primarily, to an abundance of food and the provision of shelter in a spatially ...

So far, they've identified 143 bird species and 15 mammal species. The goal is to understand how urbanization affects animal ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found a critically endangered bird known as the ‘Goldilocks’ of the grasslands in a previously unrecorded habitat niche in South Australia. The ...

Have students locate the Seychelles on a world map or a globe and make some predictions about its climate based on its latitude. Review with students the following concepts: habitat, niche, and ...

Today, all non-Africans are known to have descended from a small group of people that ventured into Eurasia around 50,000 years ago. However, fossil evidence shows that there were numerous failed ...