One of the greatest challenges in saving endangered species is to predict if an animal population will die out. Accurate and reliable models are crucial for conservationists. What does the blue whale ...

A team of researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz demonstrated the potential effectiveness of a method for estimating how many juvenile fish will become ...

For over a century, scientists imagined Neanderthals disappearing in catastrophe—felled by climate collapse, disease, ...

https://doi.org/10.1899/11-142.1 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1899/11-142.1 Copy URL AbstractEstimating demographic values and rates for populations of cryptic ...

Drastic shifts in species distributions are a cause of concern for ecologists. Such shifts pose great threat to biodiversity especially under unprecedented anthropogenic and natural disturbances. Many ...

A comprehensive modeling study indicates the extent to which climate change threatens marine ecosystems and their biodiversity. According to the study, the core habitats of a large proportion of ...

Biosecurity efforts focused on the top 3% of farms in a particular contact network may significantly cut back cross-species disease dissemination. A new mathematical model from researchers at North ...

In a recent study, scientists from the department Living Matter Physics at MPI-DS developed a model describing communication pathways in bacterial populations. Bacteria show an overall organizational ...

To tackle a problem for scholars who study past cultures – the way numerous artefacts that would inform the cultural diversity of a time have been lost – researchers borrowed an “unseen species” model ...

According to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge, modern humans descended not from a single ...