In terrestrial forest and coral reef environments, scientists have long understood how this sort of "state shift," as this foundational habitat change is called, can alter food web dynamics.

USDA Forest Service research wildlife biologist Philip Manlick used a novel technique to trace the movement of carbon through Arctic and boreal forest food webs and found that climate warming ...

Previously, we constructed a quantitative food web to describe the community and how it was interlinked 17, and found that 93 species of leaf miner were attacked by 84 species of parasitoid wasp .

From there, mercury appears to have transferred up the food web to songbirds, ... Old-growth forest areas near gold mining were found to have more than 15 times as much mercury as nearby clearings.

New research has revealed that the decline of kelp forests in the Gulf of Maine is reshaping marine food webs and energy dynamics. Scientists found that predator-prey interactions and nutrient ...

Specifically, the team found that, as rising temperatures melt permafrost — soil that has been frozen for thousands of years — and as bacteria and fungi break down that soil, animals shift from ...

Foxes eating people's waste food are likely to be keeping their population artificially high in the New Forest, a study has found. Scientists analysed the contents of 447 foxes' stomachs and found ...

Forests, pillars of global food security and nutrition, are the livelihoods of millions of families. They provide essential foods such as fruits, seeds, roots and wild meat, fundamental resources ...

Kelp forest decline along southern Maine has led to a shift in food web dynamics, with predatory fish now relying on phytoplankton rather than kelp for energy. Turf algae, despite their abundance ...

While kelp forests persist along northern Maine’s rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern coast in recent decades. In its stead, carpet-like turf algae have ...