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, ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Funding constraints highlight the need for efficient approaches to manage wildlife habitat. One such approach is to monitor a single species ...

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 ...

A study by University of Liverpool researchers reveals that the species hardest to detect—those rarely seen, recorded, or ...

Canaries are more sensitive to carbon monoxide than people are. Thus they were routinely taken into mines as men went about their work of extracting coal. Odourless and deadly, carbon monoxide could ...

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 ...