Ecology

A New Force of Nature Is Reshaping the Planet

A New Force of Nature Is Reshaping the Planet

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Scientists Erle Ellis has synthesized interdisciplinary research to illustrate how human cultural practices have historically enabled the transformation of ecosystems, advancing from ...

Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Hublin, J.-J. et al. Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature 581, 299–302 (2020). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google ...

“Zombie Leaves” – Scientists Discover That a Unique Species of Tree Fern Defies Death

“Zombie Leaves” – Scientists Discover That a Unique Species of Tree Fern Defies Death

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Other plants, including some ferns, send out leaves or shoots that touch the ground and sprout roots to sustain a new plant. ...

Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour

Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Baden, T. Circuit mechanisms for colour vision in zebrafish. Curr. Biol. 31, R807–R820 (2021). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Dacey, D. M. ...

Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole-genome duplication events and their evolutionary consequences

Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole-genome duplication events and their evolutionary consequences

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Van de Peer, Y., Maere, S. & Meyer, A. The evolutionary significance of ancient genome duplications. Nat. Rev. Genet. 10, 725–732 (2009). ...

A giant tyrannosaur from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of southern North America and the evolution of tyrannosaurid gigantism

A giant tyrannosaur from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of southern North America and the evolution of tyrannosaurid gigantism

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Brusatte, S. L. et al. Tyrannosaur paleobiology: New research on ancient exemplar organisms. Science 329, 1481–1485 (2010). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  Google ...

Decoupling speciation and extinction reveals both abiotic and biotic drivers shaped 250 million years of diversity in crocodile-line archosaurs

Decoupling speciation and extinction reveals both abiotic and biotic drivers shaped 250 million years of diversity in crocodile-line archosaurs

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Allan, R. P. Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis: Working Group I Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental ...

The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition

The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Darwin, C. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for ...

Plants Might Be Able To Absorb More CO2 Than Expected

Plants Might Be Able To Absorb More CO2 Than Expected

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Recent research indicates that plants could absorb more atmospheric CO2 than previously believed, providing a hopeful perspective on climate change mitigation. However, ...

Temperature variation in caves and its significance for subterranean ecosystems

Temperature variation in caves and its significance for subterranean ecosystems

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Sophie Anderson

Temperature variation in caves vs. on the surface The temperature in the caves was always more stable than on the surface. We ...