Warmer temps, heavier owl monkeys: Climate linked to weight gain in primates
Azara’s owl monkeys, a small primate species found in South America, are heavier today than those that lived a quarter-century ago, and evidence suggests that rising...
A new framework: A recent paper calls for biologists to rethink how they analyze the impact of climate
By Steve Scarpa
A new paper calls for ecologists and evolutionary biologists to consider how organisms experience climate rather than how weather stations record it when...
YIBS Faculty Affiliate Derek Briggs leads landmark fossil study
Derek Briggs, Yale paleontologist and YIBS faculty affiliate, is the lead author of a major new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B that sheds new light on...
Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture: Ants, microbiomes, and how I became a rainforest explorer
Professor Corrie Moreau, head curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, has explored rainforests around the world in search of the most diverse and ecologically...
YIBS Postdoc Armita Manafzadeh wins young investigator award for paleontology research
Armita Manafzadeh, a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, the Department of Earth & Planetary Science, and the Yale Peabody ...
Back to the beach: Why did evolution return some animals to the water?
In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land.
But for some species that evolution also...
YIBS postdocs illuminate new insights into river metabolism across the Western United States
A new Science study co-authored by YIBS researchers sheds light on the significant role that rivers in the western United States play in absorbing carbon dioxide from the...
