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…
New research by scientists at the University of Michigan and Peking University in Beijing, China, suggests that the outbursts occur through a process very…
The findings, published online today in the journal Nature, show that these microorganisms, members of ancient lineage called archaea, beat out all other…
The scientific community envisions that this program will succeed the current Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), which ends in 2013. The outcome of the…
Paul Silver* and Taka'aki Taira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, with Fenglin Niu of Rice University and Robert Nadeau of the…
U.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion…
NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the two storms and captured them in one image (because they're close to each other). Parma is located west of 18W's remnants….
The findings, published online today in the journal Nature, show that these microorganisms, members of ancient lineage called archaea, beat out all other…
Dr Clive Trueman, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton said:”Salmon farming is a big, intensive business. In 2006, around 130,000…
Tocopherols exist in four forms (¦Á, ¦Â, ¦Ã, and ¦Ä) of which ¦Ã-tocopherol is found in greatest concentration in soybeans. However, ¦Á-tocopherol has the…
Complex interactions between the ocean and overlying atmosphere cause hurricanes to form, and also have a tremendous amount of influence on the path, intensity…
Roughly a decade ago scientists discovered a rare form of organic phosphorus in marine organic matter. Not only were the researchers surprised to find this…
Compared to fine-grain mine tailings, produced in ore treatment by flotation and other techniques, waste rock is just displaced material comprising large size…
“To put it simply, there is not enough rice to feed the world,” says Dr. Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). “To meet the need and keep rice prices around US$300 a ton – which allows poor rice farmers to make some profit yet keeps rice affordable for poor rice consumers – we need to produce an additional 8–10 million tons of rice more than in the previous year for the next twenty years.” …
The expansion of rapid growth plantations such as those of eucalyptus came about in order to meet the needs of the growing paper pulp industry. Blights and…
They’re called aerosols, miniscule particles and droplets that float in the global atmosphere. And they’re the focus of a new national research network that…
Scientists define the “critical zone” as the portion of the planet from the treetops to the groundwater that sustains terrestrial life.The observatory is one…
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