Fiddling With Climate Change
How could climate changeaffect fiddler crab reproduction?
Mayo 30, 2014
A new study raises questions about how a common beach creature will sustain its populations if temperature swings become greater in the future.
A new study raises questions about how a common beach creature will sustain its populations if temperature swings become greater in the future.
A visiting researcher uses a movie set studio to record how the larvae of sea urchins, starfish, shellfish and corals respond to conditions in a changing ocean.
How will tropical forests respond to a warmer climate with higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations? By growing plants in geodesic domes, Smithsonian scientist Klaus Winter is seeking answers.
A novel research project takes aim at the ageless question of what influences tropical seedling survival.
What do warmer nights mean for the release of carbon dioxide by tropical forests?
20-million-year-old fossil seeds shed light on origins of plant biodiversity in Panama.
What slows or stops a disease epidemic if the pathogen is still present? It appears that wild frogs are becoming increasingly resistant to the chytrid fungal disease that has decimated amphibian populations around the world.
Mosquitoes in the genus Aedes, which can carry dangerous viruses causing yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika, invaded the crossroads of the Americas multiple times, by land and by sea.
Smithsonian scientists who documented massive mortality of corals and reef organisms meticulously studied one of the apparent causes: oxygen deficiency. A Smithsonian paleobiologist asks if the recent fossil record shows signs of similar hypoxia events.
Rapid increases in ocean acidity puts crustose coralline algae in a growth predicament, research by a Smithsonian marine scientist shows.