invertebrates

City Life Favors Downsized Invertebrates

发表于 2018-07-04 downsized favors invertebrates

Most invertebrates get smaller on average in cities, although a few very mobile species respond to urbanization by growing. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi…

Loss of Large Mammals Stamps Out Invertebrates, Too

发表于 2020-01-13 invertebrates stamps adchoices

Hunted areas of Gabon have fewer large mammals and a thicker forest understory—but they also have fewer termites. Jason G. Goldman reports. Learn more about you…

Habitat Loss a Real Buzzkill for Invertebrates

发表于 2014-08-27 invertebrates buzzkill adchoices

The number of invertebrates has fallen by nearly half over the past 35 years—the same period of time in which the human population has doubled. Karen Hopkin rep…

Invertebrates Are Forgotten Victims of "Sixth Extinction"

发表于 2015-08-15 invertebrates sixth extinction

Some 95 percent of catalogued species in one family of Hawaiian land snails could already be extinct, and similar rates of invertebrate extinction could be happ…