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…
Bila’s research is focused on a large and recently discovered population of pygmy chimpanzees or bonobos (Pan paniscus) – the least known of the six species of…
Many scientists have predicted that the result of this influx of greenhouse gas will be even more warming, followed by even more fires and so on – a vicious…
Typically, fuel is the sole consideration used to decide the location of site treatments – where trees and shrubs are cleared away or burned in order to…
The researchers started the effort for creation of somatic transgenic animals several years ago (InformNauka described these investigations in the material…
Researchers at Oregon State University, working under the Pacific Northwest Tri-State Program, are evaluating thousands of potential selections in both…
The new images can be accessed easily by clicking on the ‘Featured Content’ checkbox in the Google Earth sidebar and further clicking on the ESA icon. People…
The background content of mercury in the soil humus level of the Baikal region lies within the range of 16 through 29 thousandth of milligram per kilogram of…
This fall, Maher presented the results of two years of research into gunshots at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing…
Countering hypotheses that forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia warm the climate, scientists at UC Irvine have discovered that cooling may occur in areas…
The South African government wants to transform a runway for light aircraft into an international airport on a site near Durban that lures more than three…
The environmental technology required to achieve this goal is still getting insufficient attention, said Jules van Lier in his inaugural address, professor in…
Using data from the FAO’s fisheries statistics, the article presents a time-based overview of world fisheries, which shows that 29% of the species that are…
According to a recent study in Ecological Monographs, predicting the impact of climate change on organisms is much more complicated than simply looking at…
The decade-long study, published this month (with a cover date of January) in the journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,…
“Slowing the spread of the gypsy moth is a priority in forest management in the U.S.,” says Ottar Bjornstad, associate professor of entomology and biology,…
Huge areas of sea floor (around 3,250 km²) have been freed up by the collapse 4 years ago of the Larsen B platform along the Antarctic Peninsula – leaving a…
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