Tsukuba, Japan—Historical climatic fluctuations have profoundly influenced species distributions and genetic structures. Traditionally, past distributional patterns have been inferred using ...

Non-native species introduced by humans are among the main causes of global species decline -- they were partly responsible for 60 percent of the species that have become extinct worldwide in recent ...

The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales -- a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists ...

Sri Lanka’s isolation during past glacial cycles resulted in the evolution of unique species, but ongoing human-induced climate change now poses a major threat to their survival. Using species ...

By Edward Carver Marine heat waves have become longer and more frequent along the U.S. West Coast, as elsewhere in the world. But heating doesn’t always lead fish to change their location. A new study ...

Traces of DNA in the environment can tell us how species' ranges are changing as a result of increasing sea temperatures. But scientists caution that we still need other expertise and data to fully ...