Biodiversity feeds on itself, researchers found, as evolving animals open niches for other new species. Such is the case, says a Michigan State University researcher, with a parasite found to be evolving in sequence with an emerging host insect in western Michigan apple trees.
Publish Date: Feb. 10, 2009 | Multimedia: 
Michigan State continues its rich tradition in China with a host of research, education and economic-development initiatives. Among them: a joint project with China to build a portable athletic field for the 2008 Beijing Olympics; a new online game by an MSU scientist for teaching Chinese culture and language; and cutting-edge research that aims to protect China’s—and ultimately the world’s—habitats.
Publish Date: July 15, 2008 | Multimedia: 
MSU's panda habitat research team has spent years collecting mountains of data aimed at understanding and saving Giant Pandas.
Publish Date: Nov. 29, 2007 | Multimedia:
Renewable energy for American industry is at the root of a major Midwest research center funded by the largest federal grant exclusively for research endeavors in Michigan State University’s history.
Publish Date: June 26, 2007 | Multimedia:
The canary in the coal mine, the supposed harbinger of threat for all those around it, isn’t as true as it seemed for biodiversity conservation, according to a sweeping study in which a Michigan State University ornithologist participated.
Publish Date: Nov. 01, 2006
A crucial part in the battle to prevent outbreaks of deadly disease across the world lies with ecologists, an MSU professor says.
Publish Date: May 22, 2003
Publish Date: Jan. 12, 2003
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