Healthy ecosystems that provide people with essential natural goods and services often overlap with regions rich in biological diversity, underscoring that conserving one also protects the other, according to a new study.

Tony Haymet, Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; D. James Baker, former Director, NOAA; Jesse Ausubel, CoML Programme Director, Sloan Foundation; Shubha Sathyendranath of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography and fellow POGO experts are available for advance interviews.

This is the urgent question arising from the study “Quaternary climate changes explain diversity among reptiles and amphibians”, published in the journal Ecography.

Scientists and government representatives are poised to set up a global panel to deal with Earth's biodiversity crisis.

Whereas most birds are sole proprietors of their nests, some tropical species “time share” together – a discovery that helps clear up a 150-year-old evolutionary mystery, says Biology professor Vicki Friesen.

Biologists and computer scientists have appealed for more information on the world’s biodiversity to be stored digitally so it may better be used to understand the impact of climate change on the Earth’s flora and fauna.

To experience firsthand the complex problems that influence biodiversity, Birgitta Kajler, an educator of future wildlife conservationists in Sweden, spends a lot of her time traveling the world.

The definition of conservation priorities for biodiversity often focuses only on the numbers of vertebrate animals and seed plants in the northern hemisphere or in the tropics.

Forests in the nation's Upper Midwest have changed greatly since the time of the early settlers. And more changes may be coming.

A research team led by San Jose State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara has discovered forests of a species of kelp previously thought endangered or extinct in deep waters near the Galapagos Islands. The discovery has important implications for biodiversity and the resilience of tropical marine systems to climate change.

Variation in plants and animals gives us a rich and robust assemblage of foods, medicines, industrial materials and recreation activities. But human activities are eliminating biological diversity at an unprecedented rate.

The high biodiversity in tropical forests has both fascinated and puzzled ecologists for more than half a century. In the hopes of finding an answer to this puzzle, ecologists have turned their attention to the spatial patterns of such communities and mapped the location of each tree with a stem larger than a pencil in plots covering 25 to 52ha of tropical forest around the world.