SEEN 8.5

Newest additions to the IUCN red list http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/latest-iucn-red-list-of-threatened-species-includes-asian-dolphin-and-finless-porpoise/

 

The effect of noise pollution on animal behaviour https://theconversation.com/how-noise-pollution-is-changing-animal-behaviour-52339

 

Dog memory http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/your-dog-remembers-more-you-think?utm_source=sciencemagazine&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=dogmem-9336

 

This is all over the popular press, http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/42262908 ; https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/06/smuggled-fossil-very-weird-new-species-of-amphibious-dinosaur-halszkaraptor-escuilliei

 

Phenotypic plasticity – we mustn’t forget the importance of the environment in phenotypic expression. There is increasing evidence for its important for adaptation, here’s a recent study http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1861/20170859

 

Farmland bird ID workshops https://www.gwct.org.uk/news/news/2017/december/id-days-announced-ahead-of-2018-big-farmland-bird-count/

 

Effect of climate change on hummingbirds https://phys.org/news/2017-12-climate-hummingbirds.html

 

Global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02142-7

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