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…
Invaders thrive best in regions where there is an abundance of materials for growth, such as water, nutrients and light. Biologists have long assumed that…
Because of the disparity between actual observations and the models, the shrinking of summertime ice is about 30 years ahead of climate model projections, the…
Aided by new observations from the Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST) – Hurricane field program, scientists at the Rosenstiel School of Marine…
A new Earth Observation Centre that will enable the UK to further strengthen its position in international Earth observation programmes is announced today.The…
In Wieringermeer, a typical Dutch polder that was reclaimed from the sea in 1930, Bewick’s swans stop by during migration to feed on the leftovers of…
Besides confirming that longstanding observation, the study signals an alarm for island populations in a rapidly warming world. It suggests that climate change…
The basic constraints of evolution and the inability of species to adapt quickly enough can explain most of the causes that are leading one species after…
In a study appearing in the May issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, the researchers write that this distrust likely played a role…
There are many reasons why living in dense groups with others of your own kind is a good idea. Oftentimes, aggregations of a species serve as protection from…
Studying European blackbirds (Turdus merula), Jesko Partecke and Eberhard Gwinner (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology) discovered certain adaptive traits,…
The EPSRC-funded £6.4 million continuation will build on the findings of the first four years of the project and extend the work into promising new areas of…
The cryosphere is both influenced by and has a major influence on climate. Because any increase in the melt rate of ice sheets and glaciers has the potential…
The research group, currently consisting of Svante Björck, Karl Ljung and Dan Hammarlund, has retrieved cores of lake sediments and peat along a north-south…
One of the themes at a recent climate conference arranged by the Norwegian research program RENERGI was how we can achieve an effective international climate…
A recent study in Nature (1) suggested that terrestrial plants may be a global source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, making plants substantial…
Australia's wildfire season is notorious. Dependent on the aridity, much of the continent is prone to such fires between October and March. The direct…
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