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…
Writing in the December issue of Journal of Applied Ecology, ecologists from the Netherlands and Eritrea say that over tapping the trees results in them…
Constructing and maintaining railroad tracks uses huge amounts of energy from fossil fuels. Great improvements can be made if the management of materials is…
Rondonia is a state in the Amazonian region where the establishment of rural development projects has resulted in the construction of orthogonal road networks….
“This is the most realistic model to date,” said Kaj Johnson, assistant professor of geological sciences at Indiana University, who worked on the modeling…
“There is a connection between pollution in Mexico City and in Houston, Texas,” says Dr. Anne M. Thompson, professor of meteorology, Penn State. “The spring,…
The study, by a team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the University of Washington, and McGill University, analyzes the…
“Cave biofilms are simpler than the microbes that occur in soils where there can be hundreds of thousands of species,” says Dr. Jennifer L. Macalady, assistant…
By studying the molecular mechanisms responsible for the complex behavior of natural organic matter, researchers at the University of Illinois at…
The Medspiration project, aimed at charting sea-surface temperatures, and the GlobCOLOUR project, aimed at developing a data set of global ocean colour, both…
The team, led by Dr Mark Whittingham of Newcastle University's School of Biology and partners*, suggest that current UK agri-environment schemes have worked…
Driven by climate change, and by planting of exotic garden plants that flower through the winter, one species of bumblebee seems to have given up hibernating…
As it stands, the Environmental Liability Directive will exclude 375 of the UK’s priority species including scarce farmland birds, red squirrels and water…
With a body less than 1.5 m long, the vaquita is the smallest living cetacean (the order Cetacea consists of whales, dolphins and porpoises). It also has one…
By training professionals in high-biodiversity regions to advance the drug discovery process in-country, a novel program drives drug discovery costs down as it…
The remains of the apeman, dubbed Little Foot, were discovered in a cave complex at Sterkfontein by a local South African team in 1997. Its bones preserved in…
One great beauty of plate tectonics theory is that it explains so many geological phenomena at one time. But plate tectonics could not explain the location of…
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