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 article is to appear in the online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Nov. 5.“The process by which plants grow and…
The scientists have shown that migrating adult sparrows can find their way to their winter nesting grounds even after being thrown off course by thousands of…
Sweetpotatoes, often misunderstood and underrated, are receiving new attention as a life-saving food crop in developing countries.According to the…
For his thesis, Licentiate in Veterinary Medicine Seppo Hyyppä, from MTT Agrifood Research Finland, investigated post-exercise muscle glycogen repletion in…
Hundreds of water and sediment samples collected at the end of 2006 have now been analysed by Eawag. The results are remarkable: although pollutant loads are…
With a view to making the best use of this ever increasing by-product, the University Rey Juan Carlos has undertaken the research project entitled…
The Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) scheme was designed to help conserve biodiversity by paying farmers to adopt sympathetic land management practices. In…
One of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacles may never be seen again if the path is cleared today (November 2) for major industrial development on a remote…
Van Roosmalen’s research has been supported by scientists from Leiden, Germany and Belgium. The genetic analysis was conducted by the Leiden Centre for…
An article in the November 2007 issue of BioScience describes the history and summarizes the benefits and challenges of green roofs—roofs with a vegetated…
The development comes as a result of an internet platform, www.infonet-biovision.org, launched today by icipe – African Insect Science for Food and Health and…
Biopesticides – Green pest control using natural predators such as insects, fungi and bacteria – are the subject of a conference for scientists and industry…
New research published in the online open access journal Carbon Balance and Management quantifies these emissions and suggests fires will complicate emissions…
The research, carried out by professors Juan Manuel Pleguezuelos Gómez and Jesús Caro (University of Granada) and Ricardo Reques (of the company Ornitour), has…
Giri and other researchers used more than 750 Landsat satellite images to identify the remaining mangrove forests of the region, to quantify the rates and…
This quarterly journal has an international editorial board and covers scientific and technical papers on all aspects of erosion and sedimentation, including…
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