New study finds that the nutritional value of prey within a single species can widely vary, offering key insights for food web dynamics and ecosystem change The hunt is on and a predator finally zeroes in on its prey. The animal consumes the nutritious meal and moves on to forage for its next target. But how much prey does a predator need to consume? Following a period of massive starvation among animals living along the California coast, University of California…
A new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology shows that agricultural expansion and intensification lead to major biodiversity losses in the Gran…
On July 18, 2012, passengers on an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual–a raft of floating rock known as pumice that…
The future of weeding is here, and it comes in the form of a robot.
In a new study published today, Dr Massimo Bernardi and Dr Fabio Massimo Petti of the MUSE – Science Museum in Trento, Italy and Professor Mike Benton from the…
Oxygen deficiency together with the occurrence of toxic hydrogen sulphide below water depths of 100 – 150 m are the most prominent features of the Black Sea,…
The results of the study, currently published in the Journal of Ecology, show that land use controls the resistance and recovery capacity of mountain meadows…
So far, little research has been conducted on fungi that live on dead trees, although they are vital to the forest ecology by breaking down dead wood and…
A new study published Jan. 8 in the journal Nature Geoscience reveals that strong El Nino events can cause significant ice loss in some Antarctic ice shelves…
Samples of floating plastic rubbish were collected by the team from 120 sites along 1500km of shoreline on the eastern margin of the Red Sea during voyages in…
Starting around 2009, saltwater disposal (SWD) volume began increasing dramatically as unconventional oil and gas production increased rapidly throughout…
Environmental challenges, climate change, water and food security and urban air pollution, they are all interlinked, yet each is studied as such, separately….
The oceans are the largest global heat reservoir. As a result of man-made global warming, the temperature in the global climate system increases; around 90% of…
Meet alfalfa, a perennial legume used mainly as high-quality feed for dairy cattle. Alfalfa is also used as feed for beef cattle, horses, sheep, and goats….
“The respiratory organs of vertebrates exhibit a tremendous degree of diversity, but the lung-air sac system of birds is truly unique among extant species,”…
What favoured the Devonian extinction about 300 million years ago? Based on rock samples, a team of scientists from Germany, Belgium, China and the USA…
Pollen tube guidance towards the ovule is an important step for fertilization in flowering plants. In order for this to happen, a pollen tube attractant…
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