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…
Once the lightest fractions of the oil had been consumed, the organisms that had been digesting those compounds declined, replaced by others able to chew up…
The production of materials and chemicals from renewable resources usually bases on biological or thermochemical processes. The latter possess the advantage of…
In the three millennia before Christ, a high culture existed in the Near East which left a wealth of information about itself: on clay tablets written in…
In the new study, published today in Nature Geoscience, the scientists also report the atmospheric abundance of one of these 'very short-lived substances'…
Carbonates are the most important carbon reservoirs on the planet. But what role do they play in the Earth's interior? How do they react to conditions in the…
Intense hurricanes possibly more powerful than any storms New England has experienced in recorded history frequently pounded the region during the first…
Having trouble getting those fruits and vegetables in your backyard to grow? Don't blame the bees.
Healthy forest ecosystems need dead wood to provide important habitat for birds and mammals, but there can be too much of a good thing when dead wood fuels…
Scientists today released evidence of historically unprecedented hurricane activity along the northeast coast of what would become the United States between…
An international team of scientists, including Minghua Zhang, Dean and Director of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS),…
Published Feb. 9 in the journal Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the study found that participants — members of large,…
“Even though Antarctic sea ice reached a new record maximum this past September, global sea ice is still decreasing,” said Claire Parkinson, author of the…
An international team led by scientists at the University of Leicester has developed a way to increase our understanding of the die-back of reeds throughout…
The loss of underwater posidonia meadows poses two problems: these areas can no longer capture and store atmospheric CO2, and, moreover, they can become a…
Cyclical variations in Earth’s tilt and orbit–occurring at 23,000-, 41,000- and 100,000-year intervals–are known to strongly influence our planet’s long-term…
A team at Plymouth University in the United Kingdom used seismometers, laser scanning and video cameras to evaluate the impact of the massive waves – up to…
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