Wild animals can experience trauma and adversity too − as ecologists, we came up with an index to track how it affects them
Psychologists know that childhood trauma, or the experience of harmful or adverse events, can have lasting repercussions on ...
Quanta Magazine22d
The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology
“We know from all these brilliant experiments that electric fields do have a functional role in the ecology of these animals,” said Benito Wainwright, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of St ...
EurekAlert!12d
Researcher receives grant to study and restore tropical rainforest ecology
J. Leighton Reid received a $600,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development  Program award to research ...
Newsweek28d
Scientists Figure Out How Yellowstone Animals Find Enough To Eat
Animals all living in the same habitat and eating ... an associate professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Brown, told Newsweek. "But what was so interesting and new about ...
The Debrief5d
The Moon’s Phases Can Directly Affect Animal Behavior, New Research Reveals
Researchers from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences have shown that a full moon can have a direct effect on animal ...
Science News26d
Some of Earth’s extinct giants may have been smaller than thought
These estimates of size matter, the team notes, because larger-than-most species can have an outsize impact on ecology ... not the size or the weight of an animal that makes it interesting ...