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…
Scientists from 17 countries have collaborated in the world's largest phenology study (the recording of changes in natural annual events such as the flowering…
The findings suggest this area, known as the Upper Indus Basin, could be reacting differently to global warming, the phenomenon blamed for causing glaciers in…
Engineers here determined that the technique greatly outperformed other methods by removing at least 95 percent of a toxin secreted by Microcystis, a…
Biological pest control has much promise as an alternative to chemical pesticides. However, supplying natural predators of key insect pests is difficult and…
The research team, supported by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), published their peer-reviewed findings, “Gas Hydrate Transect Across Northern…
All of these instruments, along with more than fifty scientists from over a dozen prestigious institutions throughout the country, are part of an extensive,…
Forest fire kills all arthropoda inhabiting the forest litter and several upper centimeters of the soil. Only those arthropoda that ran away, flew away or…
As California searches for more sources of power, researchers at UC Irvine have created the first scientific method for predicting the impact of small-scale…
For these and other reasons, many sturgeons — a variety of ancient, bottom-feeding fish — are in trouble. Trent Sutton, a fisheries biologist at Purdue…
The textbooks tell us namely that there are two types of nitrifying bacteria which account for all the oxidisation of ammonia (NH3) into nitrite (NO2) and…
Using Differential SAR Interferometry (DInSAR), scientists at the Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) of the Italian National…
Released into the atmosphere most prodigiously with the launching of the industrial age, the toxic element falls back onto Earth, and accumulates particularly…
The work is reported by Heather M. Galindo and Stephen R. Palumbi of Stanford University, and Donald B. Olson of the University of Miami, and appears in the…
Such cheeses are representative of a traditional production process using raw milk and rennet. Its microbiological richness is higher than that of…
Using Differential SAR Interferometry (DInSAR), scientists at the Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) of the Italian National…
“My hope is that over time, the administration will rethink its priorities in this area,” says Richard Lester, professor of nuclear engineering and director of…
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