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…
Their theory, which is described in the Sept. 20 issue of the journal Nature, could change the way scientists view the formation of Earth’s atmosphere and…
What do video games and seismic explorations have in common” Both require very demanding computer applications that call for the ability to process massive…
And the few groups of animals that have the potential to get through a space journey alive will constitute a key source of knowledge when the time comes to…
Danish researchers now suggest that in order to assess the overall environmental impact of wind power, however, the finite lifespan of wind turbines and the…
If you want to catch a trophy northern pike, walleye or brook trout in the northern Canadian wilderness, better plan your trip soon. That’s because according…
A decade later, the satellite's data has proved instrumental in countless applications and helped researchers paint a picture of a changing climate. NASA…
Launch of Food and farming moduleDo children really believe that potatoes grow on trees? Well, if they did before, there is no reason why they should do now!…
During the conference, the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties (COP 8) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) met to agree upon…
The increase in world agriculture prices caused by the global boom in biofuels could benefit many of the world’s rural poor, according to the Worldwatch…
Advanced key figures provided by the new Internet service reveal large variation in the profitability of agriculture between EU Member States. Agriculture is…
The hydrocarbons ethane, propane and butane – as well as the main component, methane – are the major constituents of natural gas. Biological processes may lead…
These strategies are often based on a single objective (e.g. species richness conservation or species abundance conservation), a constant site protection cost…
However, before CO2 can be stored, it must be separated from the waste gases. The current methods used for this type of filtration are expensive and require…
The report was the outcome of a meeting in Hangzhou, China where experts from all over the world met and discussed the perspectives of the Chinese food…
A doctoral thesis carried out by Jorge Juan Soto Chinchilla, from the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada),…
The ocean is an ideal subject of this approach because of its enormous microbiota, whose biomass equals that of all other living organisms on earth is mostly…
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