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…
Whether the problem be zoonoses, diseases that may be transmitted from animals to man, or animal diseases that become epidemics, preventive or therapeutic…
This work, carried put in the Dpt. of Geodynamics of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada, [http://www.ugr.es]) and the Andalusian Institute of…
Writing in the January issue of Geophysical Research Letters, MBARI geologists Charlie Paull and William Ussler and their coauthors described the results of…
Scientists provide a new hazard assessment for Peninsular India to highlight the urgent need to update design standards there in order to construct adequate…
To this end, over the past two and a half years, the project has been pooling the research and development capacities of 47 partners in 15 European countries:…
Botanists at Edge Hill University, the UK’s newest University, have discovered a population Carex salina (Salt-marsh sedge), near Morvich on the west coast of…
Working in the remote forests of Cambodia, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have just discovered Southeast Asia's only known…
Some compounds (sugars, fats, caffeine, etc) are known to play a role in coffee quality. Their accumulation in the plant, and particularly in the beans, is a…
What lies behind this persistent famine in the region? This is the question being asked by the AIDA (Agricultural Innovation in Dryland Africa) international…
Their research, published in the journal, Planet Earth, reveals that CO2 can be contained in cool geological aquifers or reservoirs, where it can remain…
Scientists have theorized for years that high concentrations of greenhouse gases could have helped Earth avoid global freezing in its youth by allowing the…
A greenhouse gas that has become the bane of modern society may have saved Earth from completely freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the…
Earthquakes and volcanic activity occur when the tectonic plates that make up Earth's surface move apart or converge. While this activity is relatively easy to…
University of Leicester environmentalists are leading an international team in a research project that can help Indonesian researchers to reverse strategies…
Right now some tubeworm tartare and clams on the half shell would really hit the spot, so you're headed for the all-night café. “All-night” being the operative…
Modeling global average productivity to compare environmental tradeoffs and human-induced stressors in the environment Thomas Dietz (Michigan State…
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