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…
In a study published in the July 2008 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Drs. David S. Nolan and Eric D. Rappin from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel…
A team of researchers, led by the University of Bristol, working alongside colleagues at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory, have gained a deeper insight into how…
The findings show the connection of the world's coldest continent to global warming, as well as to periodic events such as El Niño.”As the tropics warm, so too…
According to a paper published today by a team of French, Australian, US and British scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,…
It's the unusual chemistry facilitated by this molecule, however, that will attract the most attention from scientists.Marsha Lester, the University of…
“This online eLesson is designed to teach students about the role fatty acids play in a plant's life, and where herbicides block the pathway,” says Dyer. How…
The Springer journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) was recently named a Rising Star among geosciences journals by ScienceWatch.com. According to…
One in five of Germany's plant species could lose parts of its current range, a study by scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ),…
Scientists from the Wageningen University Laboratory of Plant Physiology and an international team of scientists have discovered a new group of plant hormones,…
A study by researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has documented, for the first time in the northeastern United States,…
“These snails have an operculum, a door that closes the shell,” says Edward P. Levri, associate professor of biology at Penn State's Altoona Campus. “They can…
A medical test developed to detect an overload of iron in humans has recently been adapted to screen for the condition in some distant relatives: diminutive…
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability are joining forces with some of the United States' largest cities to help…
Warmer temperatures and longer dry spells have killed thousands of trees and shrubs in a Southern California mountain range, pushing the plants' habitat an…
Primarily limited by temperature , little is known about secondary factors that restrict or enhance microbial activity or about the extent of a habitable…
The collaboration’s research, which resulted in a major advance in the understanding of Antarctica’s climatic history, appears in the Aug. 4 issue of the…
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