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…
DISASTROUS disease outbreaks like the one which led to the decimation of the red squirrel in Britain can now be avoided through the implementation of new…
An international team of scientists used a combination of satellite measurements and models to differentiate between the two known causes of melting ice…
After taking samples of water at a depth of 16 feet (5 meters), Proskurowski, a researcher at the University of Washington, discovered that wind was pushing…
The author Dr. Seuss may have been on to something when he imagined that microscopic communities could live and flourish on small specs of dust, barely visible…
The first-known camera trap photos of an Amur leopard in China have recently been taken by protected area staff in Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve…
In a variant of maize known as pod corn, or tunicate maize, the maize kernels on the cob are not ‘naked’ but covered by long membranous husks known as glumes….
If you walk into a cloud at the top of a mountain with a cup to slake your thirst, it might take a while for your cup to fill. The tiny, barely-there droplets…
City streets can be mean, but somewhere near Brooklyn, a tree grows far better than its country cousins, due to chronically elevated city heat levels, says a…
Now, a group of geophysicists from the University of Toronto, Harvard and Rutgers Universities have found a way to identify the sea level fingerprint left by a…
The analysis is based on data from thousands of fracking operations in the USA and natural rock fractures in Europe and Africa.It is believed to be the first…
A Kansas State University team is researching how climate change is affecting rainfall and weather patterns throughout Kansas to help with future adaptation…
According to T. D. Schowalter, author of a new open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management called “Ecology and Management of Bark Beetles…
The new atmospheric observatory at Mt. Chacaltaya (CHC) in Bolivia is at an altitude of 5240 meters and is the highest such station in the world. First data…
But the team members’ advice for controlling the species goes something like this: “If you can’t beat ‘em, eat ‘em.” James Garvey, director of the Fisheries…
In a world of changing weather and rainfall patterns, engineers face challenges when designing stormwater management systems. A Kansas State University team is…
The behavior of marine larvae is central to fully understanding and modeling the pelagic (open ocean) stage for many coastal organisms. For the first time, a…
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