/channels/taxonomy/term/12772/all en /channels/channels/news/will-climate-change-outpace-species-adaptation-329263 <p>Many species might be left vulnerable in the face of climate change, unable to adapt their physiologies to respond to rapid global warming. According to a team of international researchers, species evolve heat tolerance more slowly than cold tolerance, and the level of heat they can adapt to has limits.</p> Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:40:14 +0000 webfull 168644 at /channels /channels/channels/news/borrowing-leaf-biology-preserve-threatened-languages-283334 <p>One of the world’s 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half – including scores of indigenous North American languages -- might not survive the 21st century, experts say. To preserve as much linguistic diversity as possible in the face of this threat, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº scientists are proposing to borrow a leaf from conservation biology.</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:12:41 +0000 webfull 133563 at /channels /channels/news/protecting-life%E2%80%99s-tangled-ecological-webs-268045 <p>Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat destruction. In a paper published this week in <em>Nature Ecology & Evolution</em>, researchers from Æ»¹ûÒùÔº and University of British Columbia have developed a new theory to understand how complex ecological networks will reorganize in the future.</p> Tue, 09 May 2017 15:39:46 +0000 webfull 128150 at /channels