All animals and plants are important to their environment, but are some more important than others? Every ecosystem consists ...

Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...

Results show that the plant vegetation in the contaminated soil then takes up the pesticides, which bioaccumulate and lead to higher contamination that can further cascade throughout the ecosystem and ...

They convert these compounds into forms readily available to the rest of the organisms in the food web. Actinomycetes are an example of ... 7 percent of the sites saw yield reductions of 10 bushels ...

Chemical analysis revealed that the fish contained 10 DDT-related ... are entering the food web is vital. "We are still seeing this DDT contamination in deep-sea organisms and ocean sediments ...

And now, a new study suggests that the future of this vital carbon sink may be affected, at least in part, by tiny organisms that are often overlooked ... neglected part of the peatlands’ microbial ...

SOPHIE BUSHWICK: So when you lose that tree cover, what happens to the other animals? JACOB GOHEEN ... because it takes up to 5 to 10 adult lions to bring down a buffalo, because the buffaloes are ...

The second is a bottom-up effect in that nutrient rich carrion from dead predators will fertilize the system and likely lead to the proliferation of phytoplankton “primary producers” at the base of ...

Environment and Climate Change Canada, Pacific Wildlife Research Centre, 5421 Robertson Rd., R.R. #1, Delta, BC V4K 3N2, Canada Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 ...

The approach is useful because it considers all food web interactions; it comes up short because doing so requires overly simplistic assumptions about how organisms relate to each ... in a food chain, ...

Birds stealing food out of spiderwebs is a documented ... fine thread to loop an electronic force gauge over the top of 10 jorō webs of similar size. They then pulled down gently until the ...

Our recently published study explores how microplastics move within coastal marine food webs. We found that smaller animals feeding lower in the food web might be at greater risk from microplastic ...