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…
Urban and periurban agriculture can help solve these major food and ecological problems. According to the FAO, this type of agriculture provided food for…
Under the Biodiva project (2004-2007) and in partnership with Vietnamese research organizations, CIRAD is conducting several operations aimed at inventorying,…
In regions with a large animal production sector, the viruses that cause these diseases – of the genus Morbillivirus – have significant repercussions on the…
Once the soils in a given area are degraded, farmers move on to the last remaining forest areas. In the end, for want of accessible forest resources, cocoa…
While information from sophisticated satellites and instruments have recently allowed scientists to quickly determine the exact location of wildfires and to…
While many of New York's snow birds head south to Puerto Rico for time in the sun, a recent batch of first-time fliers–born and raised in the city–are…
The launch of IPY on March 1 2007 will mark the onset of an internationally coordinated research campaign in both polar regions involving hundreds of projects…
This unexpected result shows that the Rutford Ice stream (larger than Holland) varies its speed by as much as 20% every two weeks. Ice streams – and the speed…
According to biologist Arnold van Vliet of Wageningen University, this unseasonable flowering is being caused by extremely high autumn temperatures. The mean…
“The results indicate that the problem of hormone-disruption in fish is not as widespread in Sweden as in many other European countries. This is probably due…
Wheat kernel composition is closely related to final product quality, and while plant breeders are actively developing tailor-made grains with novel starch and…
The operators of Lydd (or London Ashford) Airport in Romney Marsh, south-east Kent want to extend the site’s runway and build a new terminal to cater for a…
The recent Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change highlights the importance of climate change science – not only physical and biological science but…
Disease causing organisms can be present in some areas where their hosts are not. If their hosts arrive, novel disease outbreaks may result. In the first…
Initially spurred by the tsunami that devastated the coastlines of the Indian Ocean two years ago, a team of scientists developed the first-ever computer model…
When mixed with natural organic matter in water from the Suwannee River — a relatively unpolluted waterway that originates in southern Georgia — multiwalled…
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