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…
The landscape of Central Africa 65 million years ago was a low-elevation tropical belt, but the jury is still out on whether the region's mammals browsed and…
Researchers at the University of Florida Research and Education Centers and scientists at the South Florida Water Management District have published a report…
Vegetation plays an unexpectedly large role in cleansing the atmosphere, a new study finds.The research, led by scientists at the National Center for…
A South Dakota State University river ecologist who served on a national panel on Missouri River sediment issues that recently released its findings said that…
Coccolithophores are key members of the marine phytoplankton community. They are abundant in the sunlit upper layer of the world’s oceans, often forming vast…
The analysis concludes that warming temperatures associated with climate change will likely create increasingly dry conditions across much of the globe in the…
While logging practices have improved dramatically since then, the damaged landscape — the removal of low vegetation that helps to protect hillsides during…
At 8 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, October 20, System 99L, a low pressure system about 150 miles southwest of Grand Cayman appears to be getting organized as it…
NASA's TRMM, CloudSat and Aqua satellite captured images of Megi's clouds, rainfall and eye as they passed over the storm and saw clouds higher than 9 miles…
As Earth's climate warms, species are expected to shift their geographical ranges away from the equator or to higher elevations. While scientists have…
The sugar that is consumed by people is obtained predominantly from sugar cane and sugar beets. Plants produce the sweet, energy-rich substance during…
For the first time, researchers have found that annual ryegrass has developed resistance to paraquat, the second most important “knockdown” herbicide used by…
“Although the country has decidedly vegetarian tastes, the Indian people just don't care for soy,” said Soo-Yeun Lee, a U of I associate professor of food…
Just as Habitat for Humanity crews help build houses for people who need shelter, Dee Boersma’s team in late September built 120 “condominiums” for penguins….
Princeton engineers have developed a sensor that may revolutionize how drugs and medical devices are tested for contamination, and in the process also help…
Naturally raised beef is produced without hormones or antibiotics, whereas traditional systems take advantage of technologies the industry offers such as…
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