by admin | Nov 14, 2024
Myriad soil organisms beneath our feet play a vital role in supporting ecosystem services and sustaining our lives, but they often receive less attention from scientists and the public compared to the more visible ‘star’ species. A new study has revealed just how...
by admin | Nov 13, 2024
At low tide, marine organisms are exposed to thermal extremes,” said Professor Gray A Williams, researcher at SWIMS and Professor in the School of Biological Sciences. “The rocks can heat up from around 28 degrees Celsius, which is when they are in seawater, to over...
by admin | May 22, 2024
The idea to use genomic analysis came from Professor Timothy Bonebrake of HKU’s School of Biological Sciences, and Professor Thomas Smith of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While working together studying climate change responses of butterflies in...
by admin | May 18, 2023
The findings have thrown up something of an environmental irony. “Global forests have been gradually shifting to a younger age structure owing to major reasons like deforestation, natural regeneration and human reforestation. As a result, younger trees are playing an...
by admin | May 18, 2023
On a daily basis, we tend not to pay these tiny creatures much heed but ants play a vital role across ecosystems and regions, and the Insect Biodiversity and Biogeography Laboratory (IBBL) within the School of Biological Sciences recently initiated a global census to...
