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…
It's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket… unless you're a senita moth.Found in the parched Sonoran desert of southern Arizona and northern…
A rising tree line in the Rockies due to global warming, and a policy not to initiate “prescribed burns” (intentionally started, controlled fires) in order to…
Scientists think that the secret lies beneath the crust, in the slippery asthenosphere. In order for the mantle to convect and the plates to slide they require…
This forecasting system is scheduled to be ready in time for the Olympic Games in China in August 2008. Although it will initially benefit the sailing…
More than a mile beneath the Atlantic’s surface, roughly halfway between New York and Portugal, seawater rushing through the narrow gullies of an underwater…
Like a quilt that loses heat between squares, the earth’s system of tectonic plates lets warmth out at every stitch.But a new study in PNAS Early Edition finds…
A research team led by Rothamsted Research has used a weather-based model developed to predict the start and severity of epidemics of phoma stem canker, a…
New research shows that industrial development in North America between 1850 and 1950 greatly increased the amount of black carbon–commonly known as soot–…
The scientists, from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the Technical University of Munich, examined phenology records of 78 agricultural and…
In fact, long-established practices appear to increase soil erosion to the point that it is not offset by soil creation, said David Montgomery, a University of…
Scientists think that the secret lies beneath the crust, in the slippery asthenosphere. In order for the mantle to convect and the plates to slide they require…
Payne, a paleobiologist who joined the Stanford faculty in 2005, studies the Permian-Triassic extinction and the following 4 million years of instability in…
Aircraft engines are more efficient at higher temperatures, but this requires thermal treatment of engine components at very specific high temperatures in…
Borneo pygmy elephants depend for their survival on forests situated on flat, low lands and in river valleys, the study found. Unfortunately, it is also the…
The scientists found that the government’s program of designating specific regions for legal logging, combined with protection of other forests, and the…
These findings have significant implications related to the sustainability and conservation of these globally-important areas.Michigan State University…
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