Biodiversity
1 reportResearch on Biodiversity examines an ecological resource, pressure, response, or human-environment relationship using field data. Researchers test interpretations with ecosystem diversity, indicators, and primary observations, while incomplete records, model assumptions, and measurement limits constrain certainty.
Questions about which observations support the interpretation are tested against species inventories and genetic diversity. A second focus is how the environmental system is measured, showing how sparse measurements or incomplete records limit certainty.
Questions about which observations support the interpretation are tested against species inventories and genetic diversity. A second focus is how the environmental system is measured, showing how sparse measurements or incomplete records limit certainty.
Guinea-Bissau's Islands Expand and Shrink with the Tides
A NASA satellite image captures how twice-daily tides redraw Guinea-Bissau's Bijagós Archipelago, exposing broad mudflats and sandflats before seawater returns through its mangrove channels