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How ocean ecosystems recovered after mass extinction event 66 million years ago
21 October 2019
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have produced an unprecedented record of the biotic recovery of ocean ecosystems that followed after the last mass extinction, 66 million years ago.
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How ocean ecosystems recovered after mass extinction event 66 million years ago 21 October 2019 An international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have produced an unprecedented record of the biotic recovery of ocean ecosystems that followed after the last mass extinction, 66 million years ago.
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Global research projects co-designed with experts in East Africa awarded UKRI funding
21 October 2019
From helping schools improve earthquake mitigation plans, to enabling farmers to detect fish stocks and seasonal droughts, researchers are collaborating with regional partners in a bid to deliver strategic responses to prescient challenges.
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Scientists 'must be allowed to cry' about destruction of nature
11 October 2019
Scientists witnessing the destruction of the natural world must be supported and "allowed to cry", researchers say.
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Botanic gardens could help mitigate against climate change and biodiversity loss
3 October 2019
The Secretary General of the world's largest plant conservation network, with over 600 members, that links botanic gardens around the world in a shared commitment to save threatened plant species and raise awareness about the importance of plants will give a talk organised by the University of Bristol Botanic Garden next week [Monday 7 October].
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Hidden danger from pet dogs in Africa
9 September 2019
Researchers at the Universities of Abuja and Nigeria, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, have detected a potentially human-infective microbe in pet dogs in Nigeria.
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A new reptile species from Wales named by Bristol student
3 September 2019
After resting for decades in the storerooms of the Natural History Museum in London, a fragmentary fossil from the Late Triassic (200 million years ago) has been named as a new species by a Masters’ student at the University of Bristol.
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Buzz along to the Botanic Garden
22 August 2019
What are the medicinal properties of honey and how can a garden make a difference to pollinators? These and many other questions will be answered at a bee festival later this month.
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Separate polarisation and brightness channels give crabs the edge over predators
22 August 2019
Fiddler crabs see the polarisation of light and this gives them the edge when it comes to spotting potentials threats, such as a rival crab or a predator. Now researchers at the University of Bristol have begun to unravel how this information is processed within the crab's brain. The study, published in Science Advances today [Wednesday 21 August], has discovered that when detecting approaching objects, fiddler crabs separate polarisation and brightness information.
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Interview with the authors: High indirect fitness benefits for helpers across the nesting cycle in the tropical paper wasp Polistes canadensis
21 August 2019
Understanding how complex social systems evolve is a long-standing and challenging goal of evolutionary biology.
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Could biological clocks in plants set the time for crop spraying?
16 August 2019
Plants can tell the time, and this affects their responses to certain herbicides used in agriculture according to new research led by the University of Bristol. The study, in collaboration with Syngenta, found that plant circadian rhythms regulate the sensitivity of plants to a widely used herbicide according to the time of day. The findings could benefit agriculture by reducing crop loss and improving harvests.