While kelp forests persist along northern Maine's rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern ...

Functional classification of animals is necessary to enhance the predictive power of food web models. However, while there is a large database for functional classification of benthic invertebrates ...

All animals and plants are important to their environment, but are some more important than others? Every ecosystem consists ...

School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6, and Contaminant Sciences, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada ...

Aquatic food webs have been especially impacted in the last thirty years. This is particularly true for trophic webs with Mobile Generalist Species (MGS), which are species with high mobility ...

‡ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Ecological Exposure Research Division, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States § ...

One of Tampa International Airport's new starfish in Italy. Art is all around at Tampa International Airport. Kelly Figley, the airport’s public art program administrator said there are three main ...

The top of Nader's swimsuit is what really turned heads. Two starfish-shaped cup covers crafted entirely from pearls, delicately strung together and perfectly placed to tease, but never overdo it. The ...

Even apex predators like tigers and sharks are part of complex food webs that trace back to plants, and in the oceans, tiny green algae. These so-called primary producers have a biological ...

WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday canceled existing grants under its Food for Progress food aid program, according to an email seen by Reuters and two ...