His and his colleagues' new research suggests that climate change could have dire implications for forests with weakened trees, allowing killer fungus species to grow to epidemic proportions and spread.
The purpose was to demonstrate the resilience of the extraordinary range of organisms in nature's battle against the South Side of Chicago's collage of factories, warehouses, forest preserves, residences, and highways as well as its battle of survival against killer pest species.
Fear is the killer of our species, he argues, allowing us to be easily manipulated by our leaders and by each other.
Sphecius grandis, also called the western cicada killer, is a species of cicada killer wasp (Sphecius).
Pasteurella multocida, "killer of multiple species" [ 1], is a gram-negative rod that is common in the oropharyngeal microflora of numerous animal hosts.
When he studied published genetic analyses of other whales, Whitehead found that sperm, pilot, and killer whales--species in which offspring spend their lives with their mothers and maternal relatives--have very low mtDNA diversity, less than one-fifth that of other whales.
The scientists and researchers who claim to be the savior of human kind are also the brutal and savage killers of animal species.
Marine species like killer whales (Orcinus orca) have assumed totemic importance in tribal and Northwest culture.
Examples of keystone species are killer whales, wolves, starfish, and mountain lions.
Now, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and Canada have identified four new species of "killer sponges" that small crustaceans should fear.
