Studies of altitudinal gradients in species richness have increasingly replaced the latitudinal gradient as a model template for large-scale gradient studies 9. Altitudinal gradients encompass ...

A new look at mountain birds is helping Yale University researchers test long-held assumptions about species richness in high elevations. The idea that species diversity decreases as you move into ...

The Amazon and the adjacent Andean slopes in South America host an astonishing richness of plants and animals. These species have been sources of food, shelter and medicine since the arrival of ...

A wider variety of virus species was found in meadows close to agricultural fields compared to those located in natural surroundings, with the richness of plant species having no effect on the ...

“We wanted to create the first modern map of bee species richness because we need to know where bees live to conserve them,” Michael Orr, the study’s first author and a postdoctoral fellow ...

They examined 476,584 bee records, representing 792 species of wild bees, alongside bird data from 79 species, and land cover data from the United States Department of Agriculture.

Research by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute suggests that the richness of bird species increases with landscape heterogeneity. A research team from the institute ...

Richness of plant species reduces the number of viral infections in both wild meadows and meadows on the edges of cultivated fields A study carried out at the University of Helsinki indicates that ...