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…
This research is published in mBio.Wildlife officials first became concerned in September 2011, when seals with severe pneumonia and skin lesions suddenly…
“The drop in fire [after about A.D. 1500] has been linked previously to the population collapse. We’re saying no, there is enough independent evidence that the…
The study, published today in the journal Endangered Species Research, provides the first density estimates for these whales in both open and enclosed habitats…
The study, published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology, documents substantial losses in aquatic insect biodiversity and…
Such climatic extremes have increased as a result of global warming, a group of 10 researchers reported today in Nature Geoscience. And as bad as conditions…
In areas where summer precipitation is low, glaciers play an important role when considering the quantity of available water. The Tien Shan region is a prime…
These are the research results presented by a group of geoscientists in the new advance edition of “Nature Geoscience” on Sunday, July 29th. The results show…
The reason, says William McKinnon, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences, is Iapetus' spectacular topography. “Not only is the moon out-of-round, but…
Reporting this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Australia's national research agency, the Commonwealth…
Debate over the origin of large-scale polygons (hundreds of meters to kilometers in diameter) on Mars remains active even after several decades of detailed…
System 93W appears poised to become tropical storm Saola over the next two days if the organization continues. At 1400 UTC (10 a.m. EDT/U.S.; 10 p.m….
Such “methane seeps” are fascinating environments because of their extraordinary chemical features and often bizarre marine life. The area of interest, roughly…
According to NASA research, global temperatures have been rising for decades, and it’s affecting all aspects of agriculture. Regardless of what those surveyed…
A new study published in the prestigious journal Science, co-authored by University of Nevada, Reno's Glenn Biasi and colleagues at GNS Science in New Zealand,…
The work also gave the strongest evidence to date that liquid water inside an asteroid leads to a strong preference of left-handed over right-handed forms of…
Their study, which appears in the Journal of Politics, found that those living in places experiencing warmer-than-normal temperatures at the time they were…
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