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…
Environmentalists are just as fond of talking about it as are politicians, economists or marketing experts – “sustainability” has become a buzzword. The…
“Global warming is bringing more frequent and severe heat waves and the result will be serious for vulnerable populations,” said Dr. Amanda Staudt, climate…
It takes just seconds for tall buildings to collapse during powerful earthquakes. Knowing precisely what's happening in those seconds can help engineers design…
The research, which has important implications for climate change, is described in a paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the…
From mid July to early August 2006, a heat wave swept through the southwestern United States. Temperature records were broken at many locations and unusually…
The paper, “Multiple origins of linear dunes on Earth and Titan,” examines a possible new mechanism for the development of very large linear dunes formed on…
Main sponsors:World Climate Research ProgrammeInternational Geosphere Biosphere ProgrammeMonash UniversityNew research announced at the international Water in…
Writing in the new issue of the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, they say around 22,000 flying foxes are legally hunted (in addition to…
In a paper published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, North Carolina State University agricultural and resource economist…
With its nitrogen-fixing qualities, the tall, long-lived acacia tree, Faidherbia albida (Mgunga in Swahili) could limit the use of fertilizers; provide fodder…
“Using data from prior geological studies, we have constructed a model for the topography of West Antarctic bedrock at the time of the start of the global…
At 2 a.m. EDT on August 25, Vamco was still enroute to the Alaskan islands headed north-northeast at 38 mph in the north Central Pacific Ocean. He was about…
Until now, little has been known about how changes in temperatures might affect the total productivity and growth of all marine consumers (such as animals,…
The researchers from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, University of Adelaide in Australia and the National University of Singapore have called…
Vitt has studied the ecology of lizards in rain forests around the world and, for the past 20 years, as part of a biodiversity project in the Amazon. As a…
With a very lucky shot, scientists have captured a one-second image and the electrical fingerprint of huge lightning that flowed 40 miles upward from the top…
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