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…
Ausubel has analysed the amount of energy that each so-called renewable source can produce in terms of Watts of power output per square metre of land…
Under the initial four-year agreement, the University could receive as much as £2m funding from EDF for a variety of scientific and technological research…
Sometimes though, killing even a few individuals can have dramatic consequences, causing populations to fluctuate wildly. “The important question is: who gets…
Although the addition of nutrients to soil helps to maximize crop production, fertilizer can leach nutrients, polluting the water supply. A recent study by…
In a new study, geologists report that the mountains appear to be the remnant edge of a gigantic high plateau that began stretching and thinning some 105…
At the end of August, an unusual expedition under Russian leadership will leave for the Arctic Ocean. One of the participants is Jürgen Graeser of the Alfred…
Geologists from the University of Alberta have found that portions of Canada collided a minimum of 500 million years earlier than previously thought. Their…
Dr Tamas Szekely from the University of Bath says that the announcement from the Great Bustard Group comes a year earlier than predicted, and shows that the…
Reducing the impact of fisheries on bycatchAccording to one of the authors of a paper on the findings in the August edition of Frontiers in Ecology and…
The projects involve three thematic areas:- Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology; sub area: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from…
It helps to simultaneously determine quickly, automatically and, most importantly – not in the laboratory conditions but directly whilst in the field – the…
During the National Bumblebee Nest Survey, more than 700 volunteers surveyed their own gardens plus one of six different countryside habitats for bumblebee…
In Bordeaux, researchers were rushing to build up stocks of parent fish and set up artificial reproduction methods in an attempt to produce sturgeon fry. This…
Virginia based Professor Brower, who has spent over 50 years studying the monarch, has been honoured jointly by the Marsh Christian Trust and the Royal…
The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer(GOCE), the first core Earth Explorer mission to be developed as part of ESA's Living Planet…
At the end of August, an unusual expedition under Russian leadership will leave for the Arctic Ocean. One of the participants is Jürgen Graeser of the Alfred…
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