Accelerating global change continues to threaten Earth’s vast biodiversity, including in the oceans, which remain largely unexplored. To date, only a small fraction of an estimated two million total ...
Researchers led by the University of Hawai’i at Manoa have found that a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species can now survive and reproduce in the open ocean on floating plastic ...
The Nature Conservancy's Diamond Y Spring Preserve is pictured. The Diamond Y Invertebrates (Diamond tryonia, Gonzales tryonia and Pecos amphipod) live in these springs systems. (Jacqueline ...
A visiting research scientist has strengthened the island’s knowledge base on insects and other invertebrate life. Danni Sherwood, a senior conservation officer for the Supporting Atlantic Territories ...
Invertebrates dominate the animal kingdom, making up 97 percent of all creatures. These animals, lacking a backbone, display incredible diversity. From microscopic mites to giant squid, their ...
The UK’s Natural Environment Research Council contributed to the funding of this study. Lee Brown receives funding from NERC, Royal Geographical Society, EU Martin Wilkes does not work for, consult, ...
Charles Darwin University PhD candidate Amanda Lilleyman discovered 15 new invertebrate species while researching food for coastal migratory shorebirds. “As part of my PhD on how migratory shorebirds ...