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

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.

Caribbean reef food webs have compressed by up to 70% over the past 7,000 years as fish diets converge and ecosystems become ...

The loyal reader knows I am an organic gardener. My first book was on the soil food web and popularized the concept that plants produce carbon-based exudates designed to attract specific microbes.

The conversion of rainforest into plantations erodes and restructures food webs and fundamentally changes the way these ecosystems function, according to a new study published in Nature. The findings ...

For several years now, one question has held the key to understanding just how much we should worry about the hundreds of tons of DDT that had been dumped off the coast of Los Angeles: How, exactly, ...

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.

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

Coral reefs all over the world, already threatened by rising temperatures brought about by climate change, also face serious challenges from the possibility of fish species extinctions. According to a ...

Researchers invert a classical approach to modeling food webs. Instead of trying to replicate stable, complex ecosystems using simplistic representations of species interactions, the authors' novel ...