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…
With the capture of elver, eel (Anguilla anguilla) fry, scientists have identified up to 17 fish species, apart from the eel, which on average die in 36.5% of…
Rivers have been important sources of drinking water, food, and livelihood since the beginning of human civilizations and until now, communities depend on the sustenance rivers provide. However, they have been utilized for so long that nature has shown signs of ecological imbalance due to widespread pollution, continuous human activities, and natural phenomena. One such resource is the Pampanga River, the fourth largest basin in the Philippines, coursing Central Luzon from Pantabangan Dam in the northeast to Manila Bay in…
The mathematics behind the new method also can be used to model and predict a wide range of other questions, from the transmission of waterborne illnesses to…
While scientists have developed methods to predict aspects of fish diversity in specific river locations, a model to understand what factors may drive a…
Led by Dr. Michael Wang, a group of Argonne transportation researchers regularly update key parameters and assumptions in the GREET model on the basis of new…
On 4 May, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) asked the International Charter on 'Space and Major Disasters' for…
“We can now compare computer simulations with observations of actual climate trends in Antarctica,” says Andrew Monaghan of the National Center for Atmospheric…
Research published in the May 8th issue of the journal Nature challenges current thinking about biodiversity and opens up new avenues for predicting how…
Despite of that, no study ever proposed key broad-scale regions for conserving these species till now. Rafael D. Loyola and his colleagues propose now a…
Brightly colored dyes such as the shimmering Congo Red commonly used in silk clothing manufacture are notoriously difficult to dispose of in an environmentally…
Most of the previous studies about SOC accrual in NT soils have primarily focused on the surface layer (Humberto Blanco and Rattan Lal at The Ohio State…
The beads, known to geologists as carbon cenospheres, cannot be formed through the combustion of plant matter, contradicting a hypothesis that the cenospheres…
Last summer was the second wettest on record and experts say we must prepare for worse to come. Professor Stuart Lane, from Durham University’s new Institute…
A team led by University of Washington scientists has found that while temperature changes will be much more extreme at high latitudes, tropical species have a…
Funded by the California Energy Commission, the California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study (CAPPS) uses autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs) to…
At the same time, a little bit of warming may actually move certain organisms, particularly insects, in the high latitudes closer to their optimal temperature,…
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