Acting like high-rise timeshares in the sea, shipwrecks and other artificial reefs can support dense populations of sharks, mackerels, barracudas, jacks and other large migratory marine predators essential to ocean health, ...
Ecology
Sep 11, 2020
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The impacts of predator loss and climate change are combining to devastate living reefs that have defined Alaskan kelp forests for centuries, according to new research published in Science.
Ecology
Sep 10, 2020
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A research project on algal blooms along the Swedish coast, caused by eutrophication, revealed that large predators such as perch and pike are also necessary to restrict these blooms. Ecologist Britas Klemens Eriksson from ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 27, 2020
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Although tiger sharks have a reputation as swift and fierce predators, new research by The University of Western Australia, Australian Institute of Marine Science and Murdoch University has revealed that they actually prefer ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2020
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An international team of researchers has found that large ocean predators such as tuna, marlin and sharks are more active in temperate regions. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group describes ...
In many parts of the world, there is an imbalance in the food chain.
Ecology
Mar 18, 2020
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A first of its kind, global study on the impacts of human land-use on different groups of animals has found that predators, especially small invertebrates like spiders and ladybirds, are the most likely to be lost when natural ...
Ecology
Jan 21, 2020
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A new study has linked the size of predators atop a food chain with the ecological chain reaction triggered when they leave the head of the table.
Ecology
Mar 12, 2015
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The Earth is losing animals, plants and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering its sixth mass extinction. But there's some surprising good news: Urban areas may be key to slowing down ...
Ecology
Jun 6, 2024
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Alongside the occasional bison and elk, red deer are Europe's largest native wild animal. An international study led by wildlife ecologists from the University of Freiburg has now investigated the factors that affect the ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 10, 2024
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