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…
Climate change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the…
As the United Nations climate negotiations proceed in Bali, Indonesia, researchers have taken a first step toward quantifying the “socioclimatic” exposure of…
Michigan State University’s panda habitat research team has spent years collecting mountains of data aimed at understanding and saving giant pandas. Now a…
Dr Joint is sequencing the DNA of different ocean bacteria to find out how they will respond to an increase in carbon dioxide. “So far from one experiment we…
Microbes in the ocean produce the gas dimethyl sulphide, or DMS. It causes clouds to form above the sea, which reflect the sun’s rays away from the earth….
They found that the effects of the current warming and melting of Greenland 's glaciers that has alarmed the world's climate scientists occurred in the decades…
In recent years, scientists have examined images of several sites on Mars where water appears to have flowed to the surface and left behind a trail of…
A new study that provides insight into what kind of storms are best at tackling drought in the southeastern United States. The study focuses on a decade of…
The collaborative School of Biosciences study shows that the genetic composition of gorilla populations varies across different parts of their current…
The new model takes into account the role of nitrogen dynamics in influencing the response of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change and rising atmospheric…
The University of Teesside’s Clean Environment Management Centre (CLEMANCE) is using willow and grasses to clean up contaminated sites once used by industry, a…
“Methanogens are microbes called archaea that are similar to bacteria. They are responsible for the vast majority of methane produced on earth by living…
Dr Trimmer looked at a plant that covers up to three quarters of the surface of some streams and found that it helps methane generated in the sediment beneath…
Dr Trimmer looked at nitrous oxide production in the Arabian Sea, which accounts for up to 18 % of global ocean emissions. He found that the gas is primarily…
The research in the Department of Biology reveals that plants react to change in light quality in order to develop freezing tolerance. It has been published in…
“The most important factors that increase the risk of transmission of classical scrapie between sheep flocks are commercial trading of live animals and…
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