Imagine a world where the very ground beneath your feet dictates your chances of survival. For the snowshoe hare and the ...

from microbes and fungi to plants and invertebrates, fish, birds and mammals. "It is one of the largest syntheses of the human impacts on biodiversity ever conducted worldwide," says Florian ...

“Why is it that humans ‘decided,’ over the course of evolution, to build a pathway which is based on a plant diet, to regulate their vitamins which they are, again, getting from a plant die ...

We are modelling the response of biodiversity to environmental changes caused by human activity Human activities are causing ... Ecosystem function is important for supporting plant and animal ...

A groundbreaking study led by Bar-Ilan University reveals that starch-rich plants played a central role in the diet of ...

Could some equivalent of meteorite impacts or dramatic climate change be underway, as humankind's rapid destruction of natural habitats forces animals and plants out of existence? Increasingly ...

Many native plants are missing from habitats where they should thrive – even in wilder areas. Why? Human actions such as ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction thanks to their lifestyle.