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 study, by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado, warns that continuing economic and…
The Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies predicts northward shifts in potential distribution area of many European butterfly species. As early warning…
The conclusions will be presented at a symposium in Kinross, Scotland on 11 December 2008 by scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology who have…
Nine months into the four year £2 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded…
Human impacts on the environment have reduced populations of wild species to dangerously low levels. Nowhere is this more apparent than in worldwide fisheries,…
There is a great need for global regulations according to the environmental sociologist, as globalisation is making it impossible for national governments or…
The results show that the stress and suffering the animals undergo would be reduced if more time was spent on loading them properly onto trucks and the…
Until now, scientists had thought that phosphorus was the key element supporting the prodigious expansion of rainforests, according to Lars Hedin, a professor…
DZULKIFLI ABDUL RAZAK: Water is life, guard it well* The writer is vice-chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia and can be contacted at vc@usm.com.myThis…
Using new analytical techniques, the researchers found that offspring of estuary fish had underdeveloped brains, inadequate energy supplies and dysfunctional…
Researchers at the University of Calgary have found the biodiversity picture in the region known as the “lungs of the Earth” contradicts commonly held views…
Animal feeding operations are an important emission source of air pollutants including methane and carbon dioxide—known greenhouse gases. Recent inventories…
The Delft researcher Thijs Heus has tackled this issue with a combination of detailed computer simulations and airplane measurements. He charted data including…
On December 9, the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures, ESFRI, published its updated roadmap to what infrastructure investments are deemed to…
Transportation programs have been in place for over three decades to improve the survival of fish that hatch in rivers but migrate downstream to the ocean,…
Modern day concentrations of ground level ozone pollution are decreasing the growth of trees in the northern and temperate mid-latitudes, as shown in a paper…
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