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A green stick bug blends in with a green leaf.

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How Ecotypes Harbor the Genetic Memory of a Species’ Past

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The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

Bright blue water surrounds a volcanic island.

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Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down.

$A model of earth with barren land and green oceans$

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The Math of Catastrophe

A photo college shows organisms that produce or are affected by different keystone molecules, including a seabird; plants; a California newt; an Alderia sea slug; and a scallop.

A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems

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The Ends of the Earth

A close-up image of a mantis shrimp, which has rainbow spots and stripes and beady, complex eyes on stalks.

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When Did Nature Burst Into Vivid Color?

An illustration of a key, decorated with a mitochondrion, stuck into the back of a wind-up bird.

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‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys

An illustration shows a bee, decorated with positive charges, approaching a field of flowers that wear negative charges. An electric field emerges between them.

The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology

Scanning electron micrograph of a cluster of coccolithophores.

How Jurassic Plankton Stole Control of the Ocean’s Chemistry

Art for "Ancient DNA Yields Snapshots of Vanished Ecosystems"

Ancient DNA Yields Snapshots of Vanished Ecosystems

Art for "Dormant Microbes Bide Their Time Over Decades - Old Fires"

Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive Over Decades-Old Fire

Art for "A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate"

A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate

Nature’s Critical Warning System

A Twisted Path to Equation-Free Prediction