I n 2016, scientists published a paper with a bold claim: that the giraffe, first described as a species by Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758, might actually have been four species all along.

The idea of a “native” species is, in reality, a human-defined concept, based on a moment in time. The labeling of native and invasive sometimes overlooks natural migration and adaptability of ...

After 10 years, a mussel monoculture dominated the shore. Salomon, Power and other Paine students dedicated their graduate work to refining the keystone concept and defining a species’ ecological ...

Keystone species play the same role in many ecological communities by maintaining ... the effects of wolf reintroduction into the GYE. The concept of keystone species was first proposed and ...