Scientists have created an advanced model aimed at exploring the role of neutral evolution in the biogeographic distribution of ocean microbes. Over the past sev­eral decades, ecol­o­gists have come ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Studies of the fates of clades during mass extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous and near the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary have indicated ...

The distribution of species around the globe is not a random process but an outcome resulting from several evolutionary mechanisms as well as past and current environmental limitations. As a result, ...

You might think of ants as being everywhere all the time, but it turns out they live in nine distinct areas of the planet. For the first time, researchers have mapped the "biogeographic realms" where ...

Black wattle, flowering trees also known as the Australian acacia, have been observed to rapidly spread around local airports in Yunnan province, southwestern China. According to the ecologists, this ...