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This episode explores two Vermont "food webs": the aquatic food web of Lake Champlain and the terrestrial food web in the time since wolves disappeared from the Vermont landscape. While food webs ...

An experiment on Slate Run in Columbus, Ohio found that light pollution affects the aquatic food web. William Clifford/flickr By Sarah Zielinski September 25, 2013 at 7:06 pm - More than 2 years ago ...

Food webs offer a three-dimensional representation of predator–prey relationships within a habitat, providing a more nuanced view of the myriad connections between species.

Researchers from Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, Spain and the U.S. have reconstructed the composition of phytoplankton ...

One of the most important questions in the Gulf is also, surprisingly, one that hasn’t had a detailed answer: what exactly do predator fish eat? Species like red drum, southern ...

In nature, plants use the soil food web in order to obtain nutrients, build soil structure and remain healthy. Can this natural system be used to grow plants in your yard? Absolutely.

Food-web stability is enhanced when many diverse predator-prey links connect high and intermediate trophic levels. The computations also reveal that small ecosystems follow other rules than large ...

Reconstructed food webs from the Ancestral Puebloan southwestern United States show the complexity and interconnectedness of humans, other animals, crops and the environment, in an area of ...

We might think of flow webs as a type of food web that combines the quantitative aspects of trophic-level energy flow with the species-level detail often observed in connectivity webs (e.g., Closs ...

People with chronic conditions are taking medical research into their own hands, Betsy Ladyzhets reported in “Patient as scientist” (SN: 3/23/24, p. 22).

In the new issue of Scientific American, I’ve written a feature on recent research into how ecological networks flip, along with attempts to detect warning signs of food webs on the brink ...