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Severe coral loss leaves reefs with larger fish but low energy turnover

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Severe coral loss leaves reefs with larger fish but low energy turnover

Research on the Great Barrier Reef has found severe coral loss to be associated with substantial increases in the size of large, long-living herbivorous fish. However, decreased recycling of this fish biomass could leave the ecosystem vulnerable to crashing.

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Wolf spiders may turn to cannibalism in a warming Arctic

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Wolf spiders may turn to cannibalism in a warming Arctic

Wolf spiders in a warming Arctic are getting bigger, reproducing more and eating different foods. Including other spiders.

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Nature-based Solutions to Climate Change and Biodiversity Challenges: Call for Expertise

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Nature-based Solutions to Climate Change and Biodiversity Challenges: Call for Expertise

The BES is calling for expertise for nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation.

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Climate change unlikely to drive sugar maples north

Climate change unlikely to drive sugar maples north

Sugar maples won’t be heading north anytime soon, despite climate change, according to a new study.

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Plant-eating insects disrupt ecosystems and contribute to climate change

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Plant-eating insects disrupt ecosystems and contribute to climate change

Plant-eating insects affect forest ecosystems considerably more than previously thought.

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Changing the tide

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Changing the tide

The need for ‘collaborative solutions’ to the twin challenges of the biodiversity and climate crises.

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New study measures how much of corals’ nutrition come from hunting

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New study measures how much of corals’ nutrition come from hunting

Research reveals that corals source more nutrients than previously thought from hunting, information that may help predict the fate of coral reefs as global ocean temperatures rise.

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Species on the move

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Species on the move

Social media posts help researchers to discover climate change is to blame for displacement of 55 species in UK.

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Australian ants prepared for ‘Insect Armageddon’

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Australian ants prepared for ‘Insect Armageddon’

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Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, which causes climate change, also desynchronizes nutrient cycles

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Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, which causes climate change, also desynchronizes nutrient cycles

Interactions between soil nutrients change significantly with increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations

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Climate change benefits for giant petrels

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Climate change benefits for giant petrels

Giant petrels will be “temporary” climate change winners in the Antarctic region

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BES POST Fellow Publishes Briefing on Climate Change and Agriculture

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BES POST Fellow Publishes Briefing on Climate Change and Agriculture

Heather Plumpton reflects on her time as a BES Fellow in the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST).

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Invasive Species Week: UK Invasions in a Changing Climate

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Invasive Species Week: UK Invasions in a Changing Climate

In an Invasives Species Week special, Jane Catford and Regan Early discuss the possible synergies between climate change and the spread of invasive species.

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Understanding the decline of Atlantic salmon catches in Scotland

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Understanding the decline of Atlantic salmon catches in Scotland

An expert in salmon ecology from Marine Scotland Science explains why Atlantic salmon catches have declined in Scotland.

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Early spring: predicting budburst with genetics

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Early spring: predicting budburst with genetics

Plants' genetics can be used to predict when their leaves burst bud in spring

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