A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution of species. In the study, "Direct effects of mountain ...

An international team of scientists has made a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how global biodiversity evolved. By reconstructing the evolution of species over the past 45 million ...

A landmark study into the geological timescale distribution of sediment and nutrients over 500 million years shows that species biodiversity on Earth is driven by landscape dynamics. Movement of ...

The open-access journal Biological Diversity has launched a call for papers for a special issue on the evolutionary ...

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Ecologists call for a paradigm shift that treats individual organisms, rather than species averages, as the fundamental ...

A new study sheds light on the profound influence of deep geographic isolation on the evolution of mammals. The research reveals how long-lasting separation between continents has shaped distinct ...

Biodiversity research now highlights "a web of life" rather than "a tree of life." Photo courtesy of NC State University. This month, George Tiley began his NC State appointment as an assistant ...

Biodiversity ecosystem services research just found ocean carbon sequestration is 22 times less studied than terrestrial ...

Top panel shows reconstructed sediment fluxes to the oceans vs diversity of marine animals. Bottom panel shows sediment cover in continental regions vs the long-term trend in land-plant diversity.