Researchers from Pennsylvania State University, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, and the United States Geological ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

Wading birds are losing their prey, putting restoration efforts in the iconic wetlands at risk. The culprit, scientists say, ...

In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, authors Gabriel Gellner and Kevin McCann from the University of Guelph and SFI External Professor Alan Hastings (UC ...

A food web can be seen as a collection of pathways distributing energy to the ecological community. Because of thermodynamical as well as ecological constraints, some pathways are more important than ...

Webs aren’t just for spiders. They can, in fact, describe vast networks of interconnected relationships within ecosystems, based on the food preferences of plants and animals. Understanding a “food ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening new ground in ecology. At Rice University, César A. Uribe is developing computational ...

In the Grand Canyon reach of the Colorado River, two species play an outsized role in the fate of mercury in the aquatic ecosystem, and their numbers are altered by flood events. In the Grand Canyon ...