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…
Now a new computer-modeling study suggests that the ozone hole might actually have a slight warming influence, but because of its effect on winds, not…
“One of the things that makes plants so ecologically interesting is that they can't run away,” says John Orrock, a zoology professor at the University of…
Global composite temp.: +0.17 C (about 0.31 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.Northern Hemisphere: +0.13 C (about 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit)…
Researchers in the University of Arizona's department of ecology and evolutionary biology have found that despite differences in appearance, trees across…
Tropical Depression Gil is more than halfway to Hawaii from Mexico and continues to hold onto depression strength. Meanwhile, NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured…
Earlier this year, a multidisciplinary team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory discovered two key genes that are essential for microbes to convert…
Geologists from Brown University have developed a promising new explanation for a mysterious type of crater on the surface on Mars.Double-layered ejecta…
About one-third of the U.S. population gets their drinking water from public-supply wells.”Improving the understanding of the vulnerability of public-supply…
The 1987 Montreal Protocol phased out the use of chloroflourocarbons, or CFCs, a class of chemicals that destroy ozone in the stratosphere, allowing more…
The scientific name of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, is a sign of the fear and loathing this native North American viper has inspired. But…
The scientists are using the menus as part of a larger project to fill a 45-year gap in official records of wild fish populations in the state’s ocean waters…
If history’s closest analog is any indication, the look of the oceans will change drastically in the future as the coming greenhouse world alters marine food…
The three-year research project, funded by the National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in California, has shown widespread systemic shifts in…
NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured a very active Eastern Pacific ocean on Aug. 2 at 0900 UTC (5 a.m. EDT) with one hurricane and two developing tropical low…
Research published today in the journal Ecology Letters shows that a process known as ‘metabarcoding’ is much faster than and just as reliable as standard…
Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming’s effect on soil…
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