Editor’s note: This commentary is by David Deen, who is the river steward for the Connecticut River Watershed Council and a state representative from Westminster. He is the chair of the House Fish, ...

"It's important to note that a lot of species have divergent responses to climate change. They are retracting up the slopes ...

An indicator species is a plant or animal that is used to gather information about an environment. Foresters, biologists, ecologists, outdoorsmen and women use indicator species to quickly gain ...

Quail are considered an indicator species for healthy rangelands and grasslands. Grasslands, the habitat for quail, are rapidly disappearing. Support for hunting impacts conservation funding derived ...

Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental conditions, such as soils. Plant occurrence data are typically more abundant ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — How healthy is the city of Los Angeles' environment? A new list of charismatic umbrella indicator species was released this week to give city officials a way to track any changes ...

1. The use of surrogates to identify protected areas is a common practice in conservation biology. The use of top predators as surrogates has been criticized but recently a strong positive ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Forest condition and the associated ecological processes vital for forest patch persistence are difficult to judge rapidly and time-consuming ...

Amphibians, and specifically frogs, are classified as something called an “indicator species.” This means that whenever something in the environment changes, be it annual temperature, pollution or ...

A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the evolutionary tree and highlighting six new species. Scientists can now ...