News: Biodiversity and Sustainability

Justin Havird, Erik Iverson and their colleagues have identified genes involved in hybrid incompatibility in swordtail fishes.

Travis LaDuc, who oversees UT Austin’s herpetology collection at the Biodiversity Center in the College of Natural Sciences, spoke to UT News.

UT scientists study how droughts affect local ecosystems at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory and the Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station.

New research provides the latest evidence that climate change is having an impact on food webs in high-latitude ecosystems.

A new long-running project allows undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience with ecological research in the heart of the UT Austin campus.

Collaborators across the College of Natural Sciences and UT Austin played a role in the transformation at Texas Science & Natural History Museum.

A transformative donation allows for the expansion of a Texas Field Station Network to study biodiversity and sustainability.

In some species, female and male butterflies apparently perceive colors differently.

Poison frogs are able to withstand a toxin which they use to deter predators, but not without a cost.

Among U.S. universities, UT ranks 17th in natural sciences, 8th in physical sciences and 7th in chemistry.