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Understanding how populations fluctuate and interact over fragmented landscapes is central to modern ecology and conservation biology. Metapopulation systems, comprising spatially isolated ...

Researchers have uncovered a critical link between rising temperatures and declines in a species' population, shedding new light on how global warming threatens natural ecosystems. The study revealed ...

While the daily ebb and flow of people across a city might seem chaotic, new research reveals underlying universal patterns. A study unveils fundamental spatiotemporal scaling laws that govern these ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) have introduced an innovative methodology for reconstructing data on fertility and education, particularly in ...

To determine the health of an ecosystem, observe the birds that live there, as they are the barometers of habitat health.

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