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.

Healthy ecosystems depend on more than just having lots of species—they rely on the complex relationships between plants, prey and predators, according to new international research led by the ...

Without insects, we'd lose these plants, which collapses the food web," said Tallamy. "We'd lose amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals and even some freshwater fish." On top of their energy transfer ...

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Webs aren’t just for spiders. They can, in fact, describe vast networks of interconnected relationships within ecosystems, based on the food preferences of plants and animals. Understanding a “food ...

Winters on the Great Lakes are harsh – so much so that the scientists who work there often focus on the summer months, when tiny microbes at the base of the food chain were thought to be most ...

Caterpillars provide more energy from plants to animals than any other insect. Our native solitary bees pollinate native flowering plants, which maintains plant diversity - they need help, too. 5% of ...

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 ...

Studying ancient food webs can help scientists reconstruct communities of species, many long extinct, and even use those insights to figure out how modern-day communities might change in the future.