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…
From the highest peak in the continental United States, Mt. Whitney at 14,000 feet in elevation, to the 10,000-foot-peaks near Lake Tahoe, scientific evidence…
The study is the first comprehensive effort to directly compare the impacts of biological diversity loss to the anticipated effects of a host of other…
Five-year behavioral study shows large-scale industrializationof landscape is driving pronghorn from wintering groundsWCS has provided recommendations to…
Several factors may influence the discrepancy, researchers say, including snowmelt, interaction with groundwater, flow and discharge rates, solar radiation,…
Loss of biodiversity appears to affect ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to results of a…
Researchers use experiments that manipulate the temperature of the environment surrounding small plots of plants to gauge how specific plants will react to…
Yet that's exactly what researchers have found on the sandy beaches of south central Chile, after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake and devastating tsunami in 2010….
And a few actually lived through the experience, based on the discovery by Chinese scientists of remarkable fossils of these creatures, just announced in…
Food aid and other humanitarian efforts could be put together sooner and executed better, say UC Santa Barbara geographers Chris Funk, Greg Husak, and Joel…
Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found that larger male gorillas living…
The Yellowstone “super-volcano” is a little less super—but more active—than previously thought. Researchers at Washington State University and the Scottish…
But a new study shows that climate change could cause ocean currents to operate in a surprising way and mitigate the warming near a handful of islands right on…
Although organic techniques may not be able to do the job alone, they do have an important role to play in feeding a growing global population while minimizing…
Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created…
Levels of copper, cadmium, lead and other metals in Southern California's coastal waters have plummeted over the past four decades, according to new research…
As many as 8 million people living in the valley are estimated to be at risk of dental and skeletal fluorosis as a result of their long-term exposure to high…
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