Editor’s note: This commentary is by David Deen, who is the river steward for the Connecticut River Watershed Council and a state representative from Westminster. He is the chair of the House Fish, ...

Amphibians, and specifically frogs, are classified as something called an “indicator species.” This means that whenever something in the environment changes, be it annual temperature, pollution or ...

Quail are considered an indicator species for healthy rangelands and grasslands. Grasslands, the habitat for quail, are rapidly disappearing. Support for hunting impacts conservation funding derived ...

A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the evolutionary tree and highlighting six new species. Scientists can now ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — How healthy is the city of Los Angeles' environment? A new list of charismatic umbrella indicator species was released this week to give city officials a way to track any changes ...

The Boreal Chickadee, aptly named for its dependence on the Boreal forest, is a superb indicator species in Michigan. Simply put, if the Boreal forest is declining so is the Boreal Chickadee ...

SAN FRANCISCO— Conservation groups and the U.S. Forest Service have agreed to have an independent science panel evaluate the service’s selection of plant and animal species as indicators of the ...

Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental conditions, such as soils. Plant occurrence data are typically more abundant ...

An indicator species is a plant or animal that is used to gather information about an environment. Foresters, biologists, ecologists, outdoorsmen and women use indicator species to quickly gain ...