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…
The report considers why farmers in this and four other EU countries (Denmark, Ireland, Italy & Portugal) are increasingly reluctant to consider engaging in…
The University of Warwick team will work with the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation in Guyana. The conservation reserve around that…
The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) gets together in Bergen, Norway, 26-29 June, as part of their preparation for the Fourth Assessment…
The rhino is believed to be one of a population of as few as 13 whose existence was confirmed during a field survey last year in the interior forests of Sabah,…
Researchers, in a recent article published in Restoration Ecology, argue that restoration methods of the past may not always be applicable in the future They…
For University of Washington atmospheric scientists Robert Charlson and Theodore Anderson, co-investigators on the CALIPSO satellite's science team, there are…
A scientific expedition to a remote glacier field in Canada's High Arctic may help researchers unlock the secrets about the beginning of life and provide…
Scientists have discovered an indirect microbial mechanism whereby bacteria kill coral with the help of algae. Human activities are contributing to the growth…
Early detection of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) allows fish farmers to make timely key decisions in order to minimise the damage to aquaculture. To aid in this…
The most promising routes to eventual full-scale commercial solar energy conversion directly into fuels were identified at a recent international meeting in…
The robust pepper varieties were developed by a research tem headed by Dr. Yonatan Elkind of the Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in…
Thinking in terms of a product's life cycle, that is the whole supply chain supporting a product or service, allows a holistic perspective where not only the…
This is the first time since 1977 that the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting has been hosted by the UK. The two-week meeting at Edinburgh International…
According to Reinaldo Sáez, head of e-Ecorisk of the University of Huelva, ‘ the aim is to develop a system that allows to get to know the physical-chemical…
Overmars wanted to develop methods to identify and integrate factors which are important in the land use system, so that he could use these to describe and…
A European team headed by CIRAD has shown that spatial remote sensing could be of use in analysing these types of areas, in such a context. Remote sensing,…
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