What makes a successful invasion? What keeps invaders out? Are some geographic locations more vulnerable to invasion than others? Smithsonian marine biologists and colleagues at Temple University ...

Almost all animals eat living things, so in a sense most are predators. We normally restrict the term, though, to cases in which the animal chases and kills its prey. Nevertheless, the models we will ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two ecological issues of increasing concern are the conservation of threatened and endangered species and the management of invasive species. A study by University of Georgia Odum ...

The fossil record seems to indicate that the diversity of marine creatures increased and decreased over hundreds of millions of years in step with predator-prey encounters. For decades, there has been ...

A look at cats’ diets as reported by researchers over many years shows they eat a lot more than people might think.

A warming planet means a warming ocean. The seas soak up over 90 percent of the heat humanity traps on Earth. Last year, ocean warming reached a record high. "Unfortunately, I think we're going to ...

Across 115 degrees of latitude, spanning most of North and South America, higher ocean temperatures correlate with more intense predation by fish and shifts in invertebrate prey communities, according ...

Marine biologists tested predictions about biological invasions, first in Panama and then in an experiment of unprecedented geographic scale. Night and day, oil tankers, yachts and cargo ships stacked ...