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…
Geologists, archeologists, anthropologists, ecologists, engineers, and natural resource managers routinely use National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) data…
Researchers of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany received a special Christmas gift when their prototype profiling float…
Following the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 and 1990 acidic deposition in North America has declined significantly since its peak in 1973. Consequently,…
By studying the seabed, we can obtain information about environmental changes in the Baltic Sea and the factors affecting them over several thousand years. The…
The assessment and prevention of these risks require more effective measures than at present. The Finnish-coordinated project of the joint Baltic Sea Research…
In particular, there is little use of so-called biomarkers, early warning signs at a molecular and cell level. As a part of the joint European BONUS research…
Dutch researcher Jasper de Goeij investigated how caves in the coral reef ensure the reef’s continued existence. Although sponges in these coral caves take up…
U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Ecologist Jim Miller, Ph.D., one of the foremost authorities on nonnative plants in the South, today…
Cloaked in the clouds of emissions and exhaust that hang over the city are clues that lead back to the polluting culprits, and a research team led by the…
The German research vessel Polarstern is currently on its way to the Southwest Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean. The team of 48 scientists (30 from India)…
Soot from pollution causes winter snowpacks to warm, shrink and warm some more. This continuous cycle sends snowmelt streaming down mountains as much as a…
A cooperative body, whose members will be appointed by the ministers for research in the nations of the EU and the EEA, has decided that Europe will make a…
Such drastic measures may be unnecessary, however, according to researchers who have assessed the risk of disease transmission from Yellowstone bison to cattle.
Speaking at a January 12, 2009 symposium “Will the Rainforests Survive? New Threats and Realities in the Tropical Extinction Crisis*,” hosted by the…
The groundbreaking new results from an international collaboration between researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, England…
“To escape a predator, you don't have to be fast, you just have to be more erratic,” said Tom Eisner, a world authority on animal behavior, ecology and…
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