At the recent COP 15 conference in Montreal, Canada committed to protecting 30% of its land by 2030, but which areas are most crucial to protect for at-risk species such as the spotted turtles? In published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, 香蕉视频 researchers overlayed maps of species at risk to find hotspots where many species live together. They found that hotspots often overlap.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2023
May 22 is . As the global community is called to re-examine its relationship to the natural world, one thing is certain: despite all our technological advances we are completely dependent on healthy and vibrant ecosystems for our water, food, medicines, clothes, fuel, shelter and energy, just to name a few. The 2020 theme 鈥淥ur solutions are in nature鈥� emphasizes hope, solidarity and the importance of working together at all levels to build a future of life in harmony with nature.
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Published on: 21 May 2020
Species adapt to their local climates, but how often they adapt to their local communities remains a mystery. To find answers, researchers at 香蕉视频 and the University of British Columbia examined over 125 studies testing local adaptation in over 100 species of plants and animals in an article published in .
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Published on: 25 Feb 2020
An international research team led by a 香蕉视频 researcher used a simple experiment that mimics how plants and animals interact with each other鈥攍eaving seeds out for 24 hours to see how many get eaten. Seven thousand seed beds were deployed across a huge geographic scale, with 70 sites cutting across 18 mountains from Alaska to the equator.
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Published on: 20 Feb 2019
