A study led by Associate Professor Kelton McMahon at University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has found that food webs on tropical reefs are more fragile than we once thought.

Scientists find that ecosystems across Africa follow similar patterns, with vegetation and human impact shaping food webs in predictable ways.

Broadcast version by Isobel Charle for Washington News Service reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration Beef production has steadily been rising over the last half-century.

Africa’s ecosystems may look different, but new research shows they are becoming more alike as food webs converge across ...

When most people think about corals, they imagine a tropical reef with crystal blue water, teeming with colorful fish. But, in the depths of the cold, murky Gulf of Maine, deep-sea corals thrive, ...

Rice researchers publish first of its kind study showing that similarity in environmental conditions predicts local food web ...

In the face of growing global challenges to agricultural sustainability, a new study has uncovered the critical role of soil micro-food web complexity in enhancing soil fertility and promoting crop ...

Wildlife biologists used a novel technique to trace the movement of carbon through Arctic and boreal forest food webs and found that climate warming resulted in a shift from plant-based food webs to ...

Evaluation of the main hypotheses proposed for the causes of decline and failure to recover of the western Steller sea lion population depends on understanding how food web linkages affect sea lions.