This disruption indicates that the pollutant is interfering with the natural trade-offs fish make between survival and reproduction. The study reveals the extensive and nuanced impacts of ...

The work is reported in a paper titled "Environmental variability shapes life history of the world's birds" in Ecology ...

Ultimately, this creates some winners and some losers in terms of survival and reproduction, says Matthew Zipple, a biologist at Cornell University. MATTHEW ZIPPLE: Everywhere we look, outcomes ...

Every individual suffers from limited food, water, or space, with consequences for survival and reproduction. This type of competition is indirect. For example, deer feed on woody browse all ...

But when resources are scarce, competition can become an all-out war for survival and reproduction. While competition seldom gets truly violent, the outcome often determines which of the ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book "On the Origin of Species" - proposing that biological species change ...

They can take measures of survival and reproduction within a population, and say, this population is probably going to persist, and this population is probably winking out right now,” Cleland says.

In the wild, cats faced the challenge of limited prey, which favored only the most skilled hunters for survival and reproduction. Even today, domestic cats retain much of this hunting prowess ...

The author is an international news reporter of the JoongAng Ilbo. The most powerful instincts of a gene are survival and reproduction. Survival instinct refers to the nature to preserve self and ...