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 Sept. 26 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison…
During an expedition off the South American coast, an international team of ocean scientists discovered that the gases ethane and propane are widespread, and…
In this month's Geology, scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research present new evidence that ocean…
The main aim of the Research Programme on Sustainable Production and Products is to strengthen basic research in process engineering and chemistry with a view…
A University of Warwick research team under Professor Ralph Noble has recently shown that the use of composts can reduce the incidence of some important plant…
A team of 15 scientists headed by Gary Morris of Valparaiso University in Indiana analyzed data from a variety of sources, including weather balloons launched…
It's time to create a comprehensive accounting system for natural capital to recognize the full value of ecosystem services provided by boreal forests, an…
The point is that some cyanobacteriae and algae species go through the fish’s intestines without being damaged. Moreover, it happens so that cyanobacteriae,…
Behmer, an entomologist with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, and several other researchers conducted a series of experiments to find out whether…
By its capabilities, the observatory has no equal either in Russia or abroad. Being actually “stuffed” with state of the art equipment including custom…
The study indicates that from April 2004 to April 2006, Greenland was shedding ice at about two and one-half times the rate of the previous two-year period,…
The Climate and Land Surface Systems Interaction Centre at the University of Leicester hosted an international scientific Symposium on “Environmental change in…
Nonetheless, a world-scale assessment remains necessary in order to check if the conservation objectives laid down by the international bodies, which require…
Launched on 22 October 2001, Proba orbits 600 kilometres above the Earth and acquires around 450 scientific image datasets of more than 100 separate sites each…
This is a question that greatly interests meteorologists and hydrologists. On their behalf, and on behalf of the public which ultimately benefits from better…
Two recent expeditions led by Conservation International (CI) to the heart of Asia's “Coral Triangle” discovered dozens of new species of marine life including…
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