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…
As part of a new national research program called the Asphalt Research Consortium (ARC), Bahia is now using $5 million in funding to study ways of making…
More than half of the world population lives in urban areas by now – rising continues. As a consequence the challenges in the fields of infrastructure, energy…
The answer is not necessarily “both.” According to a study published online this week in PNAS Early Edition, the explosion of species at the tropics has much…
In 2003, haddock on Georges Bank experienced the largest baby boom ever documented for the stock, with an estimated 800 million new young fish entering the…
Am Donnerstag, 29. Mai, wurde auf der 9. Vertragsstaatenkonferenz (COP9) des Internationalen Übereinkommens zur Biodiversität (CBD) in Bonn ein Bericht zur…
A band of bark was stripped from each tree to kill it without cutting it down.The main goal of the federally funded experiment Forest Accelerated Succession…
The Nafferton Ecological Farming Group study found that grazing cows on organic farms in the UK produce milk which contains significantly higher beneficial…
New preparations are a mixture of pesticides with biodegradable polymers. Polymers gradually degrade in the soil, and pesticides get slowly released and get…
Such a conclusion has been made by specialists of the Republican State Enterprise “National Center for Mineral Raw Materials Complex Recycling of Republic of…
What’s going on in the earth’s core, why are there magnetic anomalies in rocks, how is water incorporated in minerals, and how do pearls grow? These and many…
Led by ecology lecturer Dr Markus Eichhorn, the team will spend 10 weeks camping in the wilderness of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far East Russia, an area of…
Demands on forests will become stronger and spatially more diversified. Production of wood and other traditional forest resources will have to be balanced…
Developed by engineers at the University of Leeds, the sensor device gathers data on air temperature, humidity, air pressure, light, and soil moisture and…
Such deposits are found around hydrothermal vents like those in Yellowstone National Park. That's the conclusion of planetary scientists working with data…
According to a report from a CSIRO Wealth From Oceans Flagship study – published this week in the science journal Geophysical Research Letters – since 1950…
Until 1992, when California’s magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away as Yellowstone National Park, scientists did not believe large…
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