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…
Based on observations of newly-forming stars, scientists know that the solar system began as a disc of dust and gas surrounding the centrally-growing sun. The…
After a nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific, a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has arrived in…
Researchers have found a way to chart changes in the speed of deep-ocean currents using the most modest of materials – mud. The approach, reported in the…
The subject of the study was the Moosach, a tributary of the Isar and located right at the Weihenstephaner “doorstep” of the TUM. The Moosach largely flows…
About 550 million years ago, almost all of todays’ living animal phyla appeared on Earth within just a few million years. This expansion of metazoans is also…
Lake specialist Dr. Benjamin Kraemer and his team used freely accessible NASA satellite images to test for associations between temperature and phytoplankton…
Today IIASA researchers launched their latest citizen science campaign, Fotoquest GO. The aim of the campaign, which will run for around three months, is to…
Climate change, offshore wind parks, input from agriculture or from hydraulic engineering influence the life in and around the Elbe and Wadden Sea. Prognoses…
Kakao in Monokulturen kann Dürrephasen besser überleben als Kakaopflanzen, die durch Schattenbäume geschützt werden. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine Studie der…
With a minimum extent of ca. 4.7 million square kilometres, Arctic sea ice continues to retreat
Parrots are among the most endangered species. Already since the 1990s it is a fact that one third of the parrot species from Central and South America is…
Some of the slow slip events occurred as far away as 300 miles from the earthquake's epicenter. The study of new linkages between the two types of seismic…
“We started to mount these summer campaigns on a regular basis two years ago,” said Joe MacGregor, IceBridge's deputy project scientist and a glaciologist with…
A new study mapping lightning around the globe finds lightning strokes occur nearly twice as often directly above heavily-trafficked shipping lanes in the…
For all but a small region immediately north of Cape Hatteras at the southern edge of their study area, the researchers confirmed that surface water…
The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a paper published today in…
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