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 German Research Vessel Polarstern had to prove its ice breaking capabilities in Arctic waters to gain data on two series of long-term research measurements.
In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they…
As the Summer Olympics in Beijing kicks off today, the event is affording scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, a once-in-a-lifetime…
As the Arctic Ocean warms this century, shellfish, snails and other animals from the Pacific Ocean will resume an invasion of the northern Atlantic that was…
Climate models have long predicted that global warming will increase the intensity of extreme precipitation events. A new study conducted at the University of…
This represents an increase of 16% on the 2007 harvest and 9% on the past five years' average production. This forecast, published today by the European…
By combining ingenious ways to trap and monitor midges with cutting edge computer modelling and weather predictions the IAH team are gaining an understanding…
Shesh Koirala and colleagues report their findings in the July-August issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality. The article presents a study of the…
Many people pay more than a third more for organic food in the belief that it has more nutritional content than food grown with pesticides and chemicals. But…
With this method, multiple resistance genes from different species of potatoes can be isolated and possibly used simultaneously. This offers the prospect of…
– The birth, evolution and death of such hotspots are a product of ecological processes operating over geological time scales of millions of years. – To what…
Male guppies spend most of their time displaying their brightly-coloured bodies to females in the hope of attracting a mate. The choosy females will usually…
This is potentially a beneficial side effect of the high pollution levels China – the world’s largest producer of rice – is often associated with. Methane is…
The study by Dr Petra Becker et al from Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands, shows that these foodstuffs act as binders for E. coli and…
A new herd health programme aimed at preparing Irish dairy farmers for the biosecurity challenges of herd expansion has started at the Teagasc Dairy Production…
The new map design follows a series of historical and ongoing arguments about ownership, and the race for resources, in the frozen lands and seas of the…
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