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…
Since 1999, Bluetongue (BT) has been spreading from the southern and eastern Mediterranean towards northern Europe. Between 2000 and 2004, foci were also…
Scientists are using airplanes, sensors, radar, computer modeling programs and NASA satellites to better understand hurricanes. Some of the NASA satellites…
More than 250 farm sites have been chosen to test measures designed to help the lapwing, which has declined in the UK by almost 50 per cent.The study, in the…
Numerous ice cores collected from five areas allowed scientists to reconstruct a temperature record that shows average Antarctic temperatures have risen about…
LCDs are a fixture of modern life, appearing in everything from pocket calculators and mobile telephones to wide-screen televisions. But the liquid crystals…
The research, the result of a four-year, $4 million multi-agency project supported by DOE, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the National Science…
The first launch of a balloon with its gondola and instrument package—which are together known as a driftsonde—took place at Zinder, Niger, on August 28. Up to…
Evidence from an 800,000-year Antarctic ice core record shows unprecedented atmospheric change due to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Dr Eric Wolff…
Scientists from the Pacific Northwest will help forest managers in the Southeast quickly measure fuel loads across extensive areas of hurricane-damaged…
That’s the result of the first replicated, large-scale study of plants and how they survive in both connected patches of habitat – those utilizing landscape…
A six-year study at the world’s largest experimental landscape devoted to the corridors — links between otherwise isolated natural areas — has found that more…
An article in the September 2006 issue of BioScience, the monthly journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), provides some rare good news…
“The failure to recognize the intrinsic nature of many weed population changes may result in over-application of control inputs, with subsequent negative…
“Under today's conditions, grasses flower early in the growing season and wildflowers flower later, but when we increased the concentration of carbon dioxide…
As well as providing important new information about the secretive otter species, post-mortems on otters killed by cars since 1992 gave an insight into the…
For Emmanuel Camus, Director of CIRAD's Animal Production and Veterinary Medicine Department, “both types of vector are suspected. The balance may swing one…
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