A new autonomous drone system could provide ecologists with deeper insights into animal behavior in the wild, a study suggests.
Ecology
Apr 14, 2025
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Scientists have developed a new resource to better protect seabirds from the impacts of offshore wind farms. The innovative modeling tool has the potential to save wildlife, while ensuring the effective and sustainable development ...
Ecology
Mar 31, 2025
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A University of Oxford study has determined that the widely used tools available to businesses for assessing their biodiversity impacts depend on broad assumptions and can have large uncertainties that are poorly understood ...
Ecology
Mar 10, 2025
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Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior have introduced the method YOLO-Behaviour: a new computer vision framework to automatically identify animal behaviors from videos. The robust and easy-to-use ...
Ecology
Feb 13, 2025
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Humans get a real buzz from the virtual world of gaming and augmented reality, but now scientists have trialed the use of these new-age technologies on small animals, to test the reactions of tiny hoverflies and even crabs.
Plants & Animals
Nov 26, 2024
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Animal tracking studies for ecology and conservation all face technological limitations, such as high costs or the need for tags to remain in close proximity to detectors. In research published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, ...
Ecology
Oct 23, 2024
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A new climate change prediction tool provides insight into population-level vulnerability to global change through combining genomic, geographic and environmental data. The toolbox, published in the journal in Methods in ...
Ecology
Oct 8, 2024
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Plants are known to respond to seasonal changes by budding, leafing, and flowering. As climate change stands to shift, these so-called phenological stages in the life cycle of plants—with access to data about phenological ...
Ecology
Jul 9, 2024
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When scientists want to study the long-distance movement of marine animals, they will instrument them with a small device called an acoustic transmitter—or tag—which emits unique signals or "pings." These signals are ...
Ecology
Jun 6, 2024
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Seabirds in the Pacific Ocean are eating plastic and feeding it to their chicks. But we know precious little about why the birds are doing this.
Ecology
Dec 18, 2023
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