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…
Dr George Chen received the prestigious award at a ceremony in London to recognise scientists who are helping to put the UK at the forefront of the battle…
“Alberta bears have remarkably diverse diets,” said Dr. Mark Boyce, biological sciences professor at the U of A and co-author on the study. “They’ll eat just…
The University of Manchester researchers working with colleagues in Buenos Aires compared the DNA of ancient maize found in the funerary offerings of the mummy…
Important note: Journalists must register with the European Science Foundation by the 16th February 2007 in order to be able to enter the European Parliament…
Scientists funded through the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) Ocean Margins LINK programme are helping to plug the gap in knowledge about these…
The researchers compared historical records of the climate impact of changes in the sun's output with model projections of how a warmer climate driven by…
The Institute of Physics recognises this and is launching a new website, http://environmentalresearchweb.org, a central source of information on these issues…
Recent research in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa puts this predilection into an evolutionary perspective. “Many fleshy fruits that we…
The main theme of the call is networking of scientists, who can only jointly apply for multilateral research projects, network projects or summer schools….
Tiny molecules strung in long repeating chains, polymers in the natural world have been around since the beginning of time and today industrial polymers have a…
The University is collaborating with a Malaysian company, Applied Agricultural Resources (AAR), to lead research into genetic improvements that could make the…
The variability over such a short time, reported online Feb. 9 on Science magazine's Science Express, underlines the problem in assuming that glacial melting…
Other groups that study climate change also rank these years as among the warmest, though the exact rankings vary depending upon details of the analyses….
In places more than 50% of the mature trees have disappeared between1965 and 2003, while almost no new trees have been recruited. Despite extreme aridity the…
A group of Finnish scientists suggests a new climate-biosphere interaction mechanism for the underlying processes in a new study, which will be published on…
University of Leicester ecologist Dr David Harper, who has been studying the lake for 25 years, says almost half a million people now live around the shores of…
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