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.

Species numbers alone do not fully capture how ecosystems are changing. In a global study, scientists analyzed long-term data ...

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.

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 ...

Have humans wreaked too much havoc on marine life to halt damage? A new analysis challenges the idea that ocean ecosystems have barely changed over millions of years, pointing scientists down a new ...

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.

Sampling snapper on coral reefs to assess their role in complex reef food web dynamics. “When you dive on these beautiful Red Sea reefs, one of the first things that you’ll notice is these snapper ...