Science news articles about 'range expansions'

... Hemisphere would be pre-adapted to warming and thus will increase with warming, facilitating range expansions. However, the assumptions underlying this theory have not been previously tested. If ...

... transportation will cause habitat degradation, providing alien plants with viable environments for rapid range expansion. The authors stress the need for immediate management of invasives in China, as ...

... Corvidae (crows). Brain size can promote morphological diversification because it facilitates range expansions and speciation, yet the analyses indicate that the brain-diversification association is ...

... , who is interim director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center. "The greatest potential range expansion was seen with the corn earworm, which is known to infest other high-value crops such as ...

... 1982. However, it only expanded up to 30 km from its existing colonies, and in most regions the range expansions were much shorter. The research team applied a mathematical model to the geographical ...

... temperature affecting the distribution of the king crab, it is difficult to predict the consequences of range expansion in the warming waters around the Antarctic Peninsular region. King crabs are ...

... survey data from 1968 to 2007 for stocks ranging from Atlantic cod and haddock to yellowtail and winter ... studied. Ten of the 36 stocks examined had significant range expansion, while 12 had significant ...