A severe 63 percent decline in the chinstrap penguin population on Zavodovski Island, triggered by climate-induced shifts in the availability of their primary food source, Antarctic krill.
#MarineBiology #Ecology #Climatology #ConservationBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/10/mb10082601.html
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F-FIT (female-attracted flight interception trap) is a quantitative biological monitoring method that uses captive female Platycerus stag beetles to attract and capture wild males. This technique provides vital spatial data on canopy-dwelling insect populations to assess habitat conditions in broadleaf forests.
#ForestEcology #Entomology #ConservationBiology #EnvironmentalManagement #sflorg
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Functional redundancy is the ecological theory that ecosystems possess a "spare capacity" of species that can substitute for one another, meaning the loss of a few species causes little harm to overall ecosystem function.
#EvolutionaryEcology #MarineBiology #EnvironmentalScience #ConservationBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/10/eco10062601.html